Christopher Williams Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Slough, United Kingdom

Langley, Berkshire, United Kingdom

• Through strong performance in delivery and robust relationships with senior management was made acting strategy lead during Head of strategy maternity leave. Responsible for line of business commercial reporting to CEO.
• Delivered deep dive hotel content sourcing and distribution strategy (value over 50% of LoB revenue) with head of sales and hotel sourcing for presentation to CEO and executive leadership.
• Delivered combined Mobile/Corporate strategy to a challenging timeframe to CEO with MD H&D, a key growth area of the business undergoing significant organization and requiring root and branch definition of new.
• Managed delivery of commercial modelling for major digital customer re-contracting delivering tools and insight to enable successful negotiations for Travelport.
• Delivery of commercial modelling for new product launch in Mobile space with digital team managing commercial and finance leaders to land on most profitable commercial model and pricing whilst ensuring other key.
• Line management of junior strategy analyst coordinating workload, development and training.

Langley, Berkshire, United Kingdom

• Proven record of delivery as senior analyst including: leading large scale strategic project to conclusion working directly with senior leadership, coordinating implementation of commercial recommendations directly.
• Led wide ranging business critical Hotel Content Strategy to deliver set of guiding principles for the business adopted by the management team. Recommendations identified important product developments that have.
• Developed Booking Tool Strategy, coordinating stakeholders across Hospitality and Travelport Agency Commerce to set out a clear vision for Travelport’s value proposition and target customers bringing commercial focus.
• Lead Strategy business partner for Hotelzon Managing Director to set out narrative and develop materials for annual business review with Travelport CEO which successfully achieved buy in for 2017 vision and goals
• Tenaciously pursued scope, solution and delivery of key functionality gap resulting from Hotel Content Strategy to enable critical functionality in commission pricing with Product and Technology organisations.
• Lead market strategy projects into APAC and EMEA regions defining market and competitor landscape, product fit, ability to complete and resulting sales strategy. Strategies coordinated with senior executives across H&D.

Langley, Berkshire, United Kingdom

• Dual Analyst role in Hospitality business supporting Head of Strategy and Finance Director by building corporate strategy and financial planning at a critical stage of the businesses growth. Core responsibilities in.
• Analysed internal booking data and external macroeconomic trends to define a highly targetted country and value based selling approach for Hospitality’s Global Sales Strategy resulting in introduction of new headcount.
• Created and evolved monthly flash report for Hospitality Management team to communicate key KPIs efficiently to senior company leadership that has now been adopted across other Lines of Business.
• Conducted strategy project to assess existing capability and benchmark against key competitors to define a Hotel Images Strategy to drive booking conversion for the business which delivered specific recommendation to.
• Owned the delivery of Pricing Analysis across Hotel and Car business for each annual budget and developed a structured, robust process reducing the time between updates from more than a day to 1 hour.
• Developed business case workflow coordinating stakeholders across Finance, Product and Technology as a key deliverable aligned with the implementation of Agile philosophy within Product Delivery. Point of contact for.

Took the opportunity to explore and develop new experiences through travelling to Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and USA.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Role supported the Optronics product line providing: market research, bid management and logistics management.· Responsible for a number of sensor bids to up to the value of £2.3m.· Experience in the process for bid generating a bid from customer request to bid submission. Aware of key factors regarding internal, domestic and export trade including price.

• Business strategy analyst role requiring: business strategy planning, competitor analysis and research and development (R&D) project implementation. Coordinated R&D product development reporting and proposal.
• Defined market and conducted competitor analysis for Intelligent Asset Management product plan liaising with executive and engineering teams across the ICS business line in DTS UK and DTS France
• Developed governing principles and organisational structure for a new work team ahead of executive approval. Material subsequently presented at team launch.
• Prepared competitor reports contributing intelligence to company strategy across smartphone, urban and mainline rail markets for informed strategy development.
• Coordinated the tracking of R&D budget spend and project performance reporting, utilised for company development
• Enhanced product management through new reporting templates; resulting in reliable accurate information for product development decision making at Board level

Crawley

• Running wide variety of project management activities including: scheduling, risk assessment and work package management. Achieved time and cost benefits to the programme by improving procedural efficiency and cost.
• Managed Integration and Test team's Risk Register through close monitoring of existing risk and analysis and mitigation planning for new risk.
• Winner of APM Project Management Challenge Competition 2012 for best implementation of a sustainability change project as part of graduate team.
• Implemented and managed a series of process improvements including:o Identification of problem reporting inefficiencies and management of alternative tools and methods analysis; resulting in new control metrics and.

Door to door enquires with a strong customer service ethos, dealing with queries and problems with census completion, providing support for customers to complete the census. Also registering rejections and appraising properties inhabitants.

• Key problem solving role at the heart of the R and D department.
• Produced written reports in support of mapping products.
• Liaising with colleagues to produce focussed material to deadlines.
• Developed skills in Geographic information Systems (GIS)
• Updated mapping products, and appraising maps to assess need for replacement.
• Adapted to a range of diverse tasks that changed daily.

• Customer Service Role focused on taking and paying bets at Windsor and Ascot Racecourse. Strong numeracy skills under pressure to ensure accurate payment are made. Excellent customer service required representing the.

Master Of Science (Msc), Geography

Research Masters thesis testing effectiveness of soil moisture as a method for ascertaining hydrological connectivity in temperate.

2:1, Geography

Activities and Societies: University Badminton Team, College Badminton Team, College Rowing, College Pool Team, Durham Student Union.