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As Head of Business Analytics at Sanoma Learning, I lead a dynamic team to drive strategic data initiatives that enhance commercial efficiency, revenue growth, and operational excellence across our operating companies. My role involves spearheading business model innovation projects, automating and consolidating reporting processes, and ensuring compliance with evolving privacy and security regulations. This year, I've successfully implemented a comprehensive automated annual reporting programme, and advanced our usage data collection methodologies. By fostering knowledge sharing and delivering specialist insights, I support short-term growth and long-term innovation, ensuring Sanoma Learning stays at the forefront of the education sector.Sanoma Learning is Europe’s leading provider of educational content, digital platforms, and consulting services. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers to develop the talents of over 20 million students, in over 11 different countries, to reach their full potential.

Responsible for delivering customer-focused innovation and growth initiatives across the group, through transforming and aligning local operating company revenue models, developing the business’ operations, and optimising commercial analytics.

London, London, Gb

Responsible for accelerating ICIS’ growth and evolution as a premier data and analytics provider within the Petrochemicals and Energy markets. My role coordinated the execution of the business’ long-term commercial, and corporate strategy globally, ensuring alignment across all business functions. This specifically focused on continuing to lead the implementation and evolution of our go-to-market strategy, whilst aligning the business’ market intelligence efforts, innovation pipeline, industry alliances, and M&A strategy to the achievement of long-term goals and strategic initiatives.ICIS is the global source of independent commodity market information. The business connects data, markets and industry players to create a comprehensive, trusted view of the global commodities markets. This enables customers to make strategic decisions, mitigate risk, improve productivity and capitalise on new opportunities within the Petrochemical, Energy, and Fertilizer industries. ICIS is a division of Reed Business Information, part of RELX.

London, London, Gb

Accountable for the creation and development of corporate strategy, this role delivered the business’ long-term corporate vision and commercial strategy. Alongside these projects, I maintained a strong focus on our short-term growth through the development and progression of our go-to-market planning and sales operations, advancement of our partnership and M&A strategy, and business-wide innovation in order to deliver the highest possible value to our customers.

London, London, Gb

This role focused on the creation and implementation of ICIS’ commercial strategy. Business growth was delivered through enhanced pricing and packaging of the business’ product portfolio, evolving the business’ sales operations, and supporting decision making through commercial analysis of the product portfolio, and customer behaviour. My success in this role saw me seconded to other RBI business units to support their business goals.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Managing a range of financial e-commerce clients, this role focused on the growth and account management of my client portfolio. Client specific growth was achieved through customer usage trend analysis, understanding and supporting their business priorities, and working cross-functionally to deliver a tailored setup to each client to maximise payment acceptance.Worldpay is a global leader in payment processing solutions, operating reliable and secure technology platforms which enable customers to accept omni-channel payments across a range of payment types, anywhere in the world.

New York, Ny, Us

As an integral part of the Business Development team, this role supported the fixed income and credit derivatives pricing and data services offered by S&P Capital IQ. Working across the European Sales team, I supported the overachievement of sales targets, and collaboration with the Product and Strategic Alliance teams to further integrate and grow the business division. This involved co-ordinating cross-functional teams to ensure client focused go-to-market strategies were researched, and implemented. S&P Global Market Intelligence is one of the leading providers of research, data, and desktop analytics to the Financial Services industry.

New York, Ny, Us

Focused on the account management and growth of clients across Europe and Asia Pacific for the fixed income and credit derivatives pricing business. The role achieved regional sales targets through client specific upsell and cross-sell campaigns, whilst integrating CMA’s customers into S&P’s business following the acquisition. Responsibility for the business’ contributory database customer relationships were also a key part of this role.

London, Gb

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Gb

Managerial Finance

Bsc, Business Management & Marketing