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Buckinghamshire

- Responsible for evolution of Kenvue's $MM EMEA Commercial Real Estate portfolio following divestiture from J&J- E2E management of 2x office moves, negotiating new terms with J&J, delivering value back into the P&L- Full business cases, C-Suite level capital approval (+$50MM), for a 9-year long project impacting 650+ employees- Capex/opex/change management/cross functional stakeholder management

Buckinghamshire

- Delivering GP Acceleration through transformational E2E P&L initiatives- Improving Gross to Net; Cost reduction projects; GP accreditive launches- Product + Channel mix / Customer Segmentation / SKU optimisation- Enabling J&J's Sustainability and Digital Transformation goals- Delivered for EMEA across J&J Hero Consumer Brands: Johnson's Baby, Listerine, Carefree

Berkshire

- Head of Pricing for EMEA Medical Devices, Vision Care- Developed Pricing Strategies: NPD Launches, Pricing Floors, FX, Inflation, Commercial Policy- Key Accounts Business Partner for Customers of $10m+ Net Trade Sales p.a. Regionally- EMEA Lead for Diversion, Parallel Trade, Counterfeit, Transparency of Supply Chain

- Following acquisition I transitioned my role to Dubai taking voluntary redundancy, using the opportunity to travel

Buckinghamshire

- Responsible for Commercial Strategy of Emerging and Distributor markets across EMEA (Ophtha & Botox)- Accelerated geographic expansion, delivering double-digit sales growth on a base of $150m- Performed full P&L evaluations by Country & Market to focus efforts on profit driving activities- Commercial support: pricing decisions; commercial policy; stock reporting; marketing; and tenders- Improved Salesforce effectiveness via reporting tools, travelling to CE and ME for implementation

Hertfordshire

- Senior BA role as principle analyst for Property Profits of Tesco's billion pound UK property portfolio- Business Partner to non-finance Assets & Estates, Disposals, and Acquisitions Property teams- Developed ROIs and NPVs for commercial decisions on investment properties and sale & leasebacks- Managed and maintained Property Disposals strategy, reflecting senior Governance decisions- Directly managed a team of 3, controlling £m UK Provisions and £bn Property Balance Sheets

Bangalore - India

- International secondment to Bangalore, India to manage the Commercial Marketing Finance team- Transitioned 2 full-time UK roles to the Indian shared service centre, delivering payroll savings- Delivered £11.1m to the UK P&L through identifying a VAT opportunity for coupon redemptions- Set up a Coupons Governance Group, a platform of excellence for coupon activities in Tesco- Initiated a strategic review of a failing subsidiary, resulting in radical change

Hertfordshire

- Developed format level P&Ls for senior management, allocating costs by creating financial models- Ranked and increased visibility of store and format performance by preparing Balanced Scorecards- Manager of an £80m UK Operations Head Office budget - delivered with zero variance for 2012/13- Investigated and resolved at source a £2.5m risk on historic costs- Managed an Indian based team, identifying risks and opportunities, top-down/bottom-up budgets

Hertfordshire

- Technical and Planning & Analysis teams specialising in Lease accounting- Prepared the official Tesco response to the IASB exposure draft IAS 17 leases- Quantified Tesco's operating lease liability, implementing a lease database for Tesco leases- Performed goodwill impairment and contributed to updating Tesco's Accounting Policy Manual- Contributed to consolidating and publishing Tesco's 2010/11 Annual Report

Wiltshire

- Worked as an Analyst in the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC)- Responsibilities included project management and analysis expertise- Projects included forecasting the nature of conflict and warfare out to 2040- Management role involved running experiments, war-games, and seminars- Analysis role included graphical analytical modelling, social network analysis, and simulation

Cima

Fully Qualified Chartered Global Management Accountant - 100% First Time Passes

Mathematics, Statistics & Operational Research

Qualified with First Class designation

Msc (Hons) Strategic Business Management

Qualified with Merit