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As someone who naturally understands how businesses work, I excel in identifying potential for profit and making it a reality, defining new products and creating entry to market strategies. I can imagine innovative ways to harness business partnerships, creating mutual benefit, always with the bottom line in focus. As an experienced Product Manager, I can also diversify as a Project Manager with numerous high-profile projects under my belt. I joined esure on a short-term contract in 2009 and was quickly identified as high potential talent after delivering outstanding work on a commercial project. This led to a series of promotions from Aggregator Account Executive through to Corporate Strategy Manager / Deputy MD of the broker business. At esure I worked on some major strategic projects, mainly part of a 3-year plan to increase profitability in preparation for a stock market flotation. One project was part of a drive to increase the group’s product portfolio. As Aggregator Account Executive, having impressed the senior management team through previous work on increasing aggregator conversion rates by 4%, I was hand-picked to work with the COO and succeeded in increasing the profits of select product lines by 600% within 2 years.I was also part of a small operational team leading the company IPO as it happened, I had an in-depth knowledge of the business at grass-roots level having worked my way up which meant I brought a level of detail that others couldn’t to inform the process and maintain traction.Now at Octo Telematics as Business Development Manager, my role encompasses much more than just sales. As well as in-depth market mapping, budgeting & pipeline management, targeting new opportunities and developing client solutions, I manage complex technical relationships with existing clients. Commercially focused and passionate about technical products, I am an all-rounder who can combine technical and commercial understanding to identify business growth opportunities and drive profitability. Specialities:✔️ Product Management ✔️Commercial Management ✔️Project Management ✔️PRINCE2 Certified ✔️Insurance ✔️ IoT ✔️Direct and Broker Insurance ✔️Marketing (strategic and tactical) ✔️Data Analytics ✔️Aggregator Management ✔️Account Management ✔️Business Development ✔️Price Comparison ✔️Telematics ✔️Financial Modelling ✔️Risk Management ✔️P&L Management ✔️Budgeting ✔️Forecasting ✔️Advanced Excel ✔️MS Office

Listed skills include Insurance, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, New Business Development, and 6 others.