Colin Taylor Email & Phone Number

Woking, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Bury St Edmonds

Gainsborough, Lincs

Supporting the Commercial Director by developing business plans for the following:New build crematorium projectCommercial Waste serviceCCTV re-development and modernisationCorporate Fraud serviceBuilding ControlEstablishment of trading companyAcquisition of staffing agencyAdvising WLDC Leadership Team on corporate support for commercial initiatives.

Long Stratton

Providing strategic commercial consultancy to SNC's Commercialisation Board. Focussing on development projects across Trade Waste, Leisure and Planning.

Colchester, United Kingdom

Developing commercial strategies across a number of key service delivery areas - including Community Alarms, CCTV, Cemetery and Crematorium, Building Control.

Essex

Having worked with the CEO to develop an innovative training programme for volunteers and run a mini-procurement to find a suitable deliver partner, Retained to to develop HWE's successful proposal for an Essex-wide signposting service for health and social care. This included an extensive Board level stakeholder engagement programme.

London, United Kingdom

• A gap management role (pending recruitment of F/T MD based in Beijing) with full P&L responsibility within Anglo/Sino joint venture covering two business streams - Higher Education and Independent Schools. Focus on.
• producing robust business plans, including identifying and mapping revenue streams, sales forecasting and staffing projections
• managing stakeholders in both UK and China, including investors and potential JV partners
• developing Board level client relationships, mainly with UK based universities and schools, into operational partnerships
• managing multi functional teams (sales, marketing, operations) to develop operational capabilities.Corporate website: www.bfguk.org

Essex

• Intensive consultancy assignment supporting the CEO in driving an ambitious commercial development/change agenda, focussing on:
• designing a business model and writing a business plan for ecdp’s Payroll service to take advantage of emerging market opportunities (expansion of current client base and diversification into new sectors).
• developing the organisational framework required to deliver success in this area
• building ecdp’s core value proposition
• evaluating alternative operating models (eg outsourcing)

Successfully completed interim assignment enabling JANET to build solid foundations as they face the challenges of a changing funding environment. By focussing on defining the product portfolio, building internal systems and processes and leading from the front in terms of commercial behaviours, I have left an organisation that is better equipped to.

• Leading qualification awarding and curriculum development body providing over 500,000 examinations worldwide. Turnover: £24m 2009.
• Formulated and gained approval for product development process
• Completed capability/staffing review of marketing, product development and publishing departments
• Ensured continuity in marketing function (20 people) during recruitment of full-time post holder
• Refocused website development and corporate video projects around delivery to budget and deadline

• One of the UK’s largest providers of Government funded staff development programme for the education and training sectors. Turnover: £35m 2009.
• Created and implemented product development capability - on time and to budget
• Reduced time-to-market for new products from 6+ months to 6-10 weeks
• Introduced commercial discipline into the evaluation and development of products
• Influenced diverse internal stakeholder matrix to adopt NPD process
• Recruited full-time Head of NPD

Creating and developing a full service marketing department for a private business school.

Providing marketing and PR consultancy. Supporting inndvidual projects and consulting on development of overall business plan and marketing strategy.

Responsible for managing marketing department for specialist recruitment service provider. Managed significant budget across full marketing mix with particular emphasis on online and branch office support. Also managed re-branding and repositioning company.

Managed full service marketing department in company going through acquisition by VCs and subsequent merger with competitor (approx conslidated turnover of £70m). Implemented group-wide rebranding across 6 divisions.

• Improved brand awareness and perception through re-branding of business
• Increased market penetration driven by structured market research and customer insight
• Increased external stakeholder engagement using focussed sponsorship and events strategy
• Delivered critical business analytics by Introducing measurement of marketing spend and results