Chris Paul Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Redhill, United Kingdom

Responsible for setting the strategy for Aquila Heywood's suite of products and services focusing on how they can bring value to customers.

Responsible for developing new product and services and the strategy for the existing product suite. For new propositions, the role involved opportunity identification and business case creation through to launch. For the existing product range, I was responsible for identifying the market requirements, purchaser expectations and translates these into.

Responsible for product marketing across life and pensions, public sector and corporate pensions marketplaces. The role includes supporting existing products and the development of new propositions. Responsibilities include defining market strategy, evaluating new opportunities, development of business cases and execution of the go to market strategy..

Part of start up team that created a new business sponsored by parent company (Aquila Heywood). Secured senior management approval for initial investment of £1 million. Responsible for the development of the commercial model and sales collateral. Led sales activity with senior decision makers securing annually recurring revenue of over £250,000 within 6.

Part of the Sales team focused on the UK life and pensions market. I was hired to enable the organisation to expand its reach into the UK life and pensions marketplace. Part of the team that secured the first new financial services customer in three years.

Managed sales engagements providing expertise on the life and pensions marketplace. Responsible for solution design and project planning of solutions for leading financial services companies, working with both client and internal subject matter experts.Led the creation of RFI & RFP responses with responsibility for solution architecture, gap analysis.

Part of the implementation team that succesfully introduced third way annuities to the UK market. Responsible for producing detailed business requirements and acting as a liaison between the business and technical teams.

Worked in Japan on a complex integration project involving delivery teams located across four continents. Provided technical and business support to the client CIO and provided leadership in the resolution of project critical issues and ensuring systems were available in line with service level agreements.

Implemented the INGENIUM policy administration system for a US multinational in Europe and then assisted with the set up and transition of support to an offshore delivery centre in Chennai, India