I am currently working across a variety of exciting sustainability driven projects with a specialism in novel formats.

This role supported the delivery of Diageo’s F20 environment targets for water, carbon, BOD, waste and packaging. Key focus areas included, • Developing and maintaining a dynamic LE for water and delivering water saving opportunities.• Assisting in collating carbon data for core KPI including reporting CapEx carbon reduction projects.• Packaging data reporting including communicating to business and Scotch Whisky Association.• Translating data insights into brand lead conversations and building future packaging strategy.

I lead the improve programme for the luxury and prestige NPD teams to improve team performance and delivery metrics.

I lead a team of supply project managers who specialised in delivering prestige new to world products in Diageo's luxury single malt and Johnnie Walker blended scotch whisky portfolio. As a Luxury Key Project Manager my core responsibilities included:-• Marketing/ Design Engagement, I worked with our global marketing teams to develop product concepts by applying my luxury expertise to build project briefs that meet designers aesthetic intent and ensure successful overall business delivery to cost, quality and time metrics.• Packaging and Brand Change Processes, I have a good knowledge of our local brand change processes and proven ability to deliver a variety of scales of projects across a variety of materials to GAR standards. I worked closely with our technical team to ensure appropriate project support eg risk assessments, testing and supplier auditing.• People Management, I worked hard to build effective teams in line with Diageo’s values. I was responsible for recruiting and day to day coaching and training to ensure high quality project management. I created and implemented training/development plans for my team and exceeded key metric standards on annual values survey.• Strategic Improvements, I inputted on and enabled the delivery of our luxury strategy ensuring it responded to overall business goals. I have lead continuous improvement work streams across our technical, bottling, quality and procurement functions ensuring appropriate sponsorship to deliver results.

I successfully delivered of a variety of complex and fast paced projects including gifting, full brand renovations, new brand introductions and high net worth individual client bottlings. I pride myself on my ability to interpret design briefs true to concept and deliver to Cost/Quality/Time metrics in full.Key Achievements:-• Successfully delivered Porsche Johnnie Walker Blue Label gifting projects,• King George V renovation and new 50 cl variant introduction,• John Walker and Sons Private Collection 1 and 2 innovations.• Johnnie Walker Houses innovation pipeline.

Responsible for the design and management of a variety of building projects, I researched technical components, and liaised with independent specialist consultants to achieve high quality design solutions.

Spaces Of Labour Cooperative - Promoting our masters work, seven graduates including myself formed a cooperative investigating Scottish industries past, present and future. Obtaining funding I built a web site, co-published a book and co-designed an exhibition that ran in the Glasgow Lighthouse. The group was actively working until 2012 when it successfully won a design competition and were asked as guests to attend and facilite a workshop in Rio, Brazil.