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• Driving and executing all regular communications across the Data & Analytics Community, including regular hybrid events and magazines to showcase successes, value, and alignment to strategic goals.
• Leading key campaigns and working closely with senior leadership as a trusted advisor.
• Ability to think strategically, planning for both short and long term messaging.
• Experience influencing senior leaders on board level and external industry presentations, and key messaging/storytelling.
• Using data to drive improvements to the communications strategy, with a focus on increased engagement and efficiency, whilst remaining impactful and compelling.
• Ability to create interactive videos to provide compelling messaging.

• My role involved helping transform the organisation to one where all employees actively use Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualisations to make better informed, data and insight driven decisions that drive.
• Built a new team to champion a culture of data driven decision making Society-wide, whilst building awareness of the possibilities of data visualisation.
• Developed a monthly BI Forum for data professionals across the Society, educating on self-service and upskilling of BI tools, regularly presenting to ~100 colleagues.
• Led sessions during ‘Learning at Work Week’ on ‘Storytelling with data’.

• Focus on strong user adoption and advancing levels of confidence and understanding using data. Contributed to growth in users of BI Tools to over 3000 Society-wide.
• Developed a value framework to capture both tangible and intangible benefits of any piece of work to aid prioritisation. I promoted it’s use within a team of ~100 and created quarterly infographics to showcase the.
• Trained hundreds of users in the BI tool ThoughtSpot, contributing to over 1000 users Society-wide, and maintained strong relationships with this third party.
• Presented to industry leaders at an external, international webinar to share my experience of best practice of user adoption to several hundred people, summarised thereafter in a blog.
• Developed an approach to monitor customer satisfaction using Net Promoter Scores, for the BI tools Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot.

• Working in an agile Scrum team to deliver mortgage data onto a single platform and provide increased insight to stakeholders through modern interactive self-service BI tooling, Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot.
• Led the rollout of the Business Intelligence tool ThoughtSpot from inception to delivery, with a strong focus on user adoption, and educating colleagues to self-serve their own insight.
• Acted as Proxy Product Owner and Scrum Master.

• I engaged with transformational projects impacting data to ensure they went live with fully governed data and minimal risk. Strong communication skills were required to continually promote benefits, and ensure high.
• Attention to detail and strong analysis capability were required to capture metadata and data lineage, and facilitate the transition from reporting tools to the Informatica data governance tool Axon.

• Created highly visual and interactive dashboards for stakeholders across the Society using the Business Intelligence tool Qlikview, enabling colleagues to self-serve data and make insight-driven decisions.
• My role included both data model development and visualisation of the data for colleagues. A combination of creativity, attention to detail and a focus on adding real value and efficiency to each project was key during.

• My responsibilities included improving a Society-wide Methodology process used by transformational projects impacting data, providing business engagement, and re-launching a ‘People Network’ of colleagues around the.
• I contributed to the planning and development of Nationwide’s first Data & Analytics Strategy, alongside both senior leaders and external third parties.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physical Geography, First-Class Honours

Obtained a First-class degree with Honours. Optional modules have included 'Climate Change and its Impacts' and 'Environmental Feedbacks.

Education record

Achieved 3 A Levels; Geography (A*), Maths (A) and Biology (A). 4 AS Levels including Physics (B). Achieved 13 GCSEs including Maths and.