London Operations Manager
London, United Kingdom
Responsible for leading the London Operations team of 6 Project Managers who are accountable for the daily project management of career transition clients. Reporting into the UK Sales Director and working closely with the sales leadership team, accountable for driving business KPI’s and best practice across UK Operations. Management of the performance of all team members in line with business strategy and company values. • Accountable for the effective operational setup of more than 1200 corporate client accounts in London operations, resulting in the billings of circa £23 million per annum.• Service line restructure resulting in 50% additional resource requirements, worked cross functionally to analyse role needs and created job profiles identifying key skill requirements, facilitated assessment centers to select appropriate candidates and successfully onboarded all new starters within deadline. • Reviewed all operations processes to align to new business strategies, created end to end process flows for 5 teams and co-chaired meetings with the EMEA SVP of Operations to gather data across all functions, documented all new processes with a successful roll out to the broader UK business. • Collaborated with the UK billing team to clear aged and unbilled revenue items, identified clear objectives and managed all team members setting individual realistic targets monitoring performance and generating an additional £284k, now incorporated within business as usual, shared and adopted by other teams. • Identified an area for improvement to drive knowledge share and communication between cross functional teams, implemented new weekly communication processes driving collaboration and business understanding.• Assisted UK Sales Director with re-allocation of 2000+ corporate client accounts, analysed current resources, complex account data and created individual work flows balancing portfolios and distribution across the team.