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Newquay, GB

England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for planning, facilitating and implementing the Network Mobilisation Project within the Recommissioning Programme.
• Project to ensure the successful roll out of new national contracts followed by management of the newly embedded Supply Chain delivering across London.
• Cross-functional internal and external stakeholder engagement to ensure implementation was delivered in line with contractual requirements across a diverse network of partners spanning multiple… Show more
• Cross-functional internal and external stakeholder engagement to ensure implementation was delivered in line with contractual requirements across a diverse network of partners spanning multiple geographies.
• Significant change management as NCS moved from the implementation phase to BAU.
• Performance and Supply Chain management of partners delivering the new contracts. Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

• Full responsibility for the Supply Chain that made up 45% of the newly procured Work & Health contract for the Local London Partnership (£36 million contract value).
• Ensured all 8 end-to-end Delivery Partners were successfully onboarded and achieved service commencement on time and against contractual requirements.
• Continuous performance management of the contract, which has included partner terminations where appropriate.
• Responsibility for creating the performance management… Show more
• Responsibility for creating the performance management framework, implementing performance improvement measures, completing staff training, sharing best practice, reporting to the commissioning body, completing.
• Responsible for the performance and contractual management of the end to end delivery partners who accounted for 50% of the Work Programme delivery in CPA3 (West London).

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the direct delivery operations of the region (CPA3, West London).
• Ensured all five delivery centres met performance, quality compliance and fiscal expectations.
• Developed stakeholder partnerships, completed performance and data analysis, ensured continuous performance management, represented the company in contract package reviews with the DWP and delivered ongoing.
• Full line management responsibilities, including… Show more
• Full line management responsibilities, including recruitment and retention of staff.Key Achievement: MAXIMUS became the top performing Work Programme Provider in the region and achieved their highest league table.

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Hampshire (CPA9)

• Secondment as Regional Manager for CPA9 (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire)
• Line managed the Business Managers across 8 centres with over 80 members of staff working on the contract. Focussed on driving sustained high performance and quality of delivery in accordance with the Work Programme.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Responsible for all aspects of the day to day running of a large Welfare to Work centre.
• Line managed 12 members of staff with 1500+ service users.
• Setting the tone and culture of the team, driving performance, ensuring profit margins were maintained, adhering to KPIs & MPLs, liaising with stakeholders, staff development, performance management, customer.
• Setting the tone and culture of the team, driving performance, ensuring profit margins were maintained, adhering to KPIs & MPLs, liaising with stakeholders, staff development, performance management, customer.

• Established and grew the Compulsory Education Sector. Business Development.
• Sourcing, identifying and assessing candidates. Reviewing CVs and conducting interviews. Negotiating salaries, charges, profit margins.

• Variety of positions over 4 years before, during and after university. Roles briefly included: Teaching PE lessons, working in a busy school reception, coaching a multitude of sports and supporting special educational.