Darshna Valand Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Project manage the implementation and delivery of digital services, working closely with internal and external stakeholders. Track and monitor product performance, providing regular reporting and use the data and insight to iterate and improve the products. Work collaboratively to ensure digital services are equitable, accessible and meeting the needs of young people. Ensuring the digital service offers are compliant, and monitor and report risk whilst ensuring the highest standards of security and accessibility.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Ensuring a product strategy that embraces digital opportunities, assist in the development of educational offerings and engage children in learning. This includes knowledge of media and marketing strategies, the ability to analyse and interpret data and insights, as well as strong communication and presentation skills across various stakeholders. Most recently, I have been involved with Twinkl Go!, a team dedicated in creating online interactive games accessible to children.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Leading a team of animators, content writers and editors in gathering insights through market research, customer feedback and product analysis to make efficient business decisions and provide direction for an augmented reality educational App. This includes product promotion and marketing material to support downloads. App details can be found here: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/apps/learn-and-explore

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Creating and delivering digital content for the platform to help those who teach. Currently working on Live Lessons across a range of topics. Social Media Liaison https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/twinkl-teaches

Leicester, United Kingdom

I have had many roles and responsibilities as a teacher during my time at my current school. These include:• Planning for my class in line with curriculum objectives, catering for all abilities.• Carrying out both formative and summative assessment, and using it to inform planning. • Building relationships with, and taking responsibility for a class of children, including safeguarding. • Providing feedback to parents and carers on the pupil’s progress. • Working with colleagues in order to ensure our school has an effective and engaging curriculum.• Organising school trips to various locations including an overnight residential.• Leading whole school assemblies. • Responsibility for the Year Group.• Carrying out interventions and support SEN children through the use of IEPs. • Using Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets to collect and consolidate data.Being a predominantly EAL school, it has been vital to understand the needs of the local community and how to adapt to these to nest suit the children.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

My role at Boots PLC as a marketing assistant entailed a variety of tasks, therefore organisational skills were essential. Primarily, I was responsible for the production, print and distribution of healthcare show material, seeing through the process from initial briefing to final artwork. As healthcare is a rather complex area, it regularly meeting with the Boots internal pharmacy, medical and legal offices to ensure that the wording and imagery used were consistent with the legal and pharmaceutical obligations. In particular, special consideration had to be given to material produced for the Republic of Ireland, thus attention to detail was key to maintain accuracy.In order to effectively carry out my role, I was required to uphold excellent business relationships, both with colleagues within the company, and external agencies and suppliers. In addition, I was also responsible for dealing with tight budgets and managing internal expectations. As well as using Microsoft Excel and SAP, I am also familiar with Mainframe, which was the core programme used for the briefing and ordering of show material.

London, United Kingdom

My variety of roles included; identify, monitor and analyse spend and savings databases; Produce updates and reports for International and US Strategic Sourcing; Provide analytical support to the StrategicSourcing team; Process, analyse and track departmental expenditure; Interpret, analyse and compare supplier bids for goods and services; Provide operational cover for the Procurement Representatives who process the companies transactions.The majority of reports were created and analysed using Microsoft Excel and SAP and required a considerable amount of data manipulation, therefore the ability to handle large volumes of data and distil key points was essential. This required attention to detail so that the work produced was accurate and reliable. Flexibility and good organisational skills were necessary as I was required to prioritise tasks and projects according to their deadlines. Good communication skills were required (both verbal and written) in order to express myself clearly and appropriately with suppliers and the team.

Leicester, United Kingdom

My responsibilities revolved around customer interfacing operations such as serving customers, cashiering, dealing with unwanted items, correctly issuing exchanges and refunds as well as resolving general and miscellaneous enquiries through use of the company intranet. Combined with this, I was often issued with the task to train new staff various general operations, as well as procedures during normal and demanding periods.My job required me to integrate my problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills with my drive and motivation in order to deliver excellent customer service. These skills together with my professional attitude resulted in me being promoted to head of general merchandising with responsibilities entailing to open up the shop in the morning and subsequently setting up.

Leicester, United Kingdom

On top of serving a large variety of customers, I was also required to work together with others in order to maintain the smooth running of the shop. Working at Shoe Fayre required me to utilise my time management skills so that I could efficiently manage work duties whilst being in full time education.