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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Leading and supporting the implementation of complex change programmes within a formal project environment, in order to achieve benefits that support residents, business priorities, and Trafford's corporate plan.Managing stakeholders and developing relationships with senior reporting officers and other key stakeholders on project and programmes that deliver to time, cost and quality. Understanding the complexities of governance arrangements across the local health and social care system, and identifying and monitoring complicated inter-dependencies, risks and issues, and benefits of change programmes.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Managing an engagement team within Trafford's public health department, providing advice, guidance and support to Trafford’s diverse communities using an effective multi-channel approach. Endeavouring to minimise the impact of Covid-19 outbreaks on our communities, leading on engagement and communications to support the local outbreak response, and acting as the strategic lead across Trafford's four localities, overseeing officers, coordinators, and other neighbourhood leads.Working with the community sector to ensure effective co-ordination and communication of information to support our communities to thrive. Understanding local area demographics, health outcomes, wider determinants of health – including housing, education, and employment – and using this information to identify how needs can best be met.Building effective relationships & working closely with residents, community/VCSE groups, and service providers, ensuring that local views are fed into the service offer, and being alert to the needs of 'harder to reach' groups and individuals.

Managing transformation projects within Health and Social Care, ensuring the successful development of services as part of a transformation and modernisation programmes, in line the council's corporate vision, values, and priorities, through use of business analysis, service redesign, and change/project management.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Delivering projects and products using an agile project management methodology. Leading a collaborative, dynamic planning process, prioritizing work and helping to define product roadmaps. Identifying the highest value deliverables, facilitating decision-making, and managing trade-offs.Analyzing business requirements and user-needs to create functional or technical requirements and plans. Drawing on input from internal and external subject matter experts. Evaluating the potential impact of changes. Listening for good ideas and moving them forward.Working closely with the software development team to produce viable specifications and acceptance criteria, as well as working with the sales and bid team to support pre-sales.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Managing the roadmap and product vision for a $2m+ revenue, industry-leading multi-platform media study. Connecting the product directly to the strategy of the business, with roadmap items aligned to the businesses’ key strategic goals. Overseeing an Agile development, Scrum-based methodology. Ensuring the roadmap and backlog are prioritized by commercial impact to solve the most critical user needs first.Helping to nurture new product ideas and bring them to life, developing meaningful product growth. Having vision and creativity routed in reality. Providing clear, thorough documentation and updates to all key stakeholders and decision-makers. Working closely with technical and data teams, ensuring iterative enhancements are delivered. Working with colleagues across broad geographies to improve processes and ensure timeliness of releases.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Overseeing the development of RealityMine’s longitudinal, mobile-centric consumer panels in a number of markets around the world. Producing and maintaining balanced, scientifically representative, nationally projectable media and marketing research. Line management of the research support and survey scripting teams. Conducting in-depth reviews of research quality via the creation of quality management systems. Tracking and intervention in order to correct panel misalignment, minimise bias, and maximise panellist retention. Applying lessons in behavioural economics and gamification to the panellist experience. Preparing budget forecasts and tracking costs against these.

Bolton, United Kingdom

Shaping the design and overseeing the development of a range of consumer insight products. Driving the integration and expansion of new data and analytics offerings. Implementing thorough quality control during the publication cycle of a range of consumer packaged goods market data. Helping to manage the online delivery of high quality syndicated content, in line with the production schedule. Specifying and delivering projects, managing processes and staff. Providing thorough and effective support to clients.

Bolton, United Kingdom

Designing, specifying and delivering analytical projects. Managing research and data modelling projects, overseeing processes and staff, and tutoring team members. Line management of the research and analysis team. Ensuring projects are delivered in a timely fashion and to the right quality. Producing bespoke analysis for consultancy projects. Developing expert insight and fresh thinking into the FMCG industry and its consumers, and communicating this analysis in a concise and compelling manner for clients to digest and use as a basis for their strategic planning. Liaising with clients to meet their requests and queries. Presenting research at industry conferences. Writing analytical content for PR pieces and to journalists' enquiries.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Operational management of a team of researchers, analysts, and shoppers working on consumer report writing, innovation tracking, and market assessment. Overseeing quality control of data collection and analysis, forecasting, processing, and publication. Reviewing and managing resources and primary and secondary sources for data and information. Providing actionable data and information for clients through products and services, including client queries. Assisting team and shopper recruitment, and working within an agreed budget. Organizing and leading data team meetings. Consultation and collaborative working with colleagues across the consumer team.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Researching and modelling global market data forecasts across a range of FMCG categories. Identifying emerging trends and areas of growth or decline. Maintaining a good balance between meeting the fast-paced needs of the release schedule and producing thorough, accurate data. Producing reports on innovations and opportunities in market segments to find the story behind the numbers. Responding promptly to client queries on the data coverage and methodology. Quality checking large data series.

Altrincham, United Kingdom

Creating and implementing a marketing strategy for a VCSE organisation in order increase client footfall and awareness of the centre. Writing press releases and mail-outs. Identifying areas where the centre could better target the needs of local demographics. Delegating work to a part time assistant, managing her time and my own.

Associate'S Degree, Project Management, Distinction

Successful completion of APM (Association For Project Management, the chartered body for the project profession)'s Project Management.

Ma Critical And Cultural Studies

Ba English