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• Strategic Oversight: Owned and oversaw a suite of tools and systems for business change management. Defined the underlying strategy to maximise output and efficiency with tooling solutions.• Tool Selection & Implementation: Selected, designed, and implemented new tools to meet evolving business needs.• Feature Development & Roadmap: Drove product roadmaps and delivered new features with technology teams.• Data Management & Integration: Managed data flows, integrations, and the overall ecosystem.• Business Rollout: Successfully deployed new systems across the organisation, as well as large-scale cloud migrations.A Product Management role focusing on the selection, design and implementation of tooling to deliver on business requirements in terms of data, functionality, feature set and ease of use. Creating and driving the roadmaps for various products in this space, working closely with technology teams. Managing the holistic ecosystem, data flows/outputs, integrations and dependencies.

London, United Kingdom

• Strategic Leadership: Part of the Senior Leadership Team delivering the transformation of a technology focused PMO into a business wide ECM function - a multi-million pound initiative. • Business Analysis: Conducted gap analysis, designed new processes, gathered/documented requirements from senior leaders, ran workshops, mapped dependencies.• Building New Functions: Established a new PMO function and Portfolio Management Team, including the hiring and managing of new personnel.• Portfolio Management: Defined and systemised strategies for organisational processes and business case prioritisation.• System Implementation: Delivered technology changes, introduced new systems, and managed complex data requirements.A true business wide transformation initiative within a FTSE 250 FinTech organisation. This project impacted all aspects of delivering change within the company, from how product driven work was managed, to how multi-year projects were proposed, reviewed, prioritised and scheduled. This was a transformation of a tactical, tech-delivery focused PMO to a true business wide Enterprise Change Management function - becoming a true strategic partner to the business in delivering on our overarching strategy.

• Data Ownership: Managed and maintained critical change management data.• System Ownership: Drove improvements and introduced new features and tooling for the benefit of change management. • Executive Reporting: Developed and delivered insightful reports to C-suite executives.• Data Analysis & Visualisation: Utilised SQL, Excel, PowerQuery, PowerBI, and MS Office to extract, analyse, and present data.• Strategic Partnership: Promoted to report directly to the head of department, where I used data driven insights to help shape the future of the organisation. I joined IG Group as a Data Analyst and was quickly promoted to report directly to the Global Head Of PMO. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, I drove data-driven decision-making and initiated a transformation to a tool-led, efficient, and accountable change management function.

• Heading a commercially focused project seeking to capitalise on opportunities when field engineers determine a customer's product to be 'end of life'.• Leading the roll-out of a Group-wide New Product Development (NPD) process.

• Heading a data project seeking to maximise efficiency and highlight areas for improvement in field engineer placement, training and parts carried. Extracting and analysing complex data and representing my findings using innovative infographics by utilising the Google Maps API.• Producing video/audio for company YouTube channel and internal applications (e-Learning).

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Organic, Physical, Material, Inorganic, Analytical, Computational, Practical, TheoreticalResearch project.

High School

Activities and Societies: A-Levels: Chemistry, Physics, Economics, History, General Studies