I’m a Business Improvement Leader and Group Quality Manager and have achieved the delivery of sustained financial gain and benefit from BI projects, innovations and consistent application of business and ISO Standards. I’ve successfully led single and multi-discipline teams and used LEAN, BI and Quality Audit methodologies. Enabling team members to develop existing skills and learn new ones is a passion of mine, as is removing barriers to their efficiency and getting the job done. I seek and engage with stakeholders, have acute financial acumen and understanding of the high level picture and I’m not afraid to ask the difficult questions.I despise waste and so strive to embody and lead in; Do it safely, right first time and at a profitKey Skills• Building high performance teams by focusing on removing obstacles to productivity, ensuring effective communications and letting the team do what it does best• Ensuring external audits are successful by correcting non-conformances completing internal audits and coaching staff to meet the requirements of the standard• Delivering innovation by seeking ideas, reviewing with stakeholders, securing real resourcing and reporting back value to Innovators and Stakeholders• Continuously working with BI stakeholders in aligning vision, purpose and resources to get results by qualifying feelings with facts into agendas that deliver project results in what’s really required - no more, no lessAchievements• Tendered external audit provision and reduced audit days by 20% saving £50k on the contract• Led and developed my team of Internal Auditors delivering the Internal & External audit programs for ISO9001-Quality, ISO14001-Environment, OHSAS 18001-Safety and ISO27001-Data Centres at >450 audits a year• Delivered c£3 Million value from >5000 Innovations submitted• Completed a BI project recycling scrap electricity cable generating a £600k per annum revenue stream• Increased and actioned safety near miss reports from <30 to >300