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In setting up Claire Marks Consultancy, the focus is working flexibly and creatively with clients in the following areas:L&D strategy and design - Leadership Development - Coaching - Learning Needs Analysis - Training/Learning themed events - Corporate Communications - Relationship and Project ManagementIt is important to Claire to work closely with clients to gain that all crucial buy in and sponsorship for L&D initiatives from board level to all areas of the business to ultimately, support her clients to unleash talent in their organisations.

Beginning on a secondment as Project Manager in a team of 3, Claire played a pivotal role in the growth of this project to a subsidiary business. This included:• Expansion of the team to 130+ • Clients secured with £8.3m revenue (first 6 months)• Skills Funding Agency contract in place• Delivery model launched with 5000 Apprentices in learning across 2 major clientsPromoted to Head of Client Services, the focus in this role was to manage client relationships with large multi national employers and understanding their customer journey, supporting them at every level to unleash talent in their businesses and focused on interpreting clients needs and translating this back to the internal team, ensuring that business engagement plans deliver the right products and services.

The remit for this role was to develop talent and leadership capability for all levels across the City & Guilds group, including high potentials. This was achieved through innovative design and delivery of business focused learning solutions. This included:Strategic planning & design• Creating and setting the vision for Leadership Development across the group• Cutting edge product design, management and implementation of a Leadership Academy across the entire management population • Design, management and execution of key strategic leadership events• Budget management and forecasting• Supporting planned changes in organisation culture, structure and development of capabilities • Ability to track external market trends, research and understand how to bring best practice in talent and leadership development to City & Guilds– working proactively, spotting opportunities to improve what we do and bring in best practice from outsideLead business interface• Core responsibility for cross functional relationships in regard to talent, leadership and high potential development, from group board level• Influencing and negotiating with the senior management group and function heads across all directorates to deliver optimum advances in capability development Stakeholder and relationship management• Advanced communication and influencing skills to advise colleagues at board and senior management group level about talent and leadership development product design and delivery solutions• Responding creatively and at pace in developing innovative solutions to keep driving change• Managing relationships with key external providers, ensuring a cost effective provision of service for Leadership Academy programmes and across the talent pool of high potential candidates to evaluate and assess performance across the business.