Jenny Groot Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Leading PEAS' team of dedicated secondary education development experts across Uganda, Zambia and the UK. Continuing to deliver an inclusive, high quality, low cost education for over 13,000 students in the PEAS networks and supporting governments to improve access and quality of education for many more young people across Uganda and Zambia. Working closely with development partners to expand PEAS' reach in new and exciting ways.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London

Strategy, Operations, Project management, Finance, Marketing, Procurement, Change management, Due diligence, Pricing in consumer retail and business-to-business sales forces, Non-profit organisations• Led strategic review for a major UK travel company, coordinating workshops and interviews throughout the organisation and delivering a comprehensive 5 year strategy for all UK operations• Implemented buying improvement programme for food service distributor, including identifying opportunities and developing and coordinating negotiations process• Designed change management programme in international paper manufacturer to educate and influence European sales force to introduce more sophisticated, segment-based approach to account management• Built new strategy team in a top UK grocer to embed category management process, coaching new team members and together delivering a new process of strategic insight and implementation recommendations• Due diligence for venture philanthropy organisation, VPF, to assess non-profit organisations against selected criteria to present to board for potential funding• Coordinated Oliver Wyman's participation in Enabling Enterprise programme to increase exposure of secondary school students to business and raise aspirationsAlso held several positions of responsibility outside of project work, the latest focused on personal development and pastoral care of more junior consultants.

London And Kampala

• Created strategic plan for 2011-17, supporting CEO in designing a comprehensive set of social impact, organisational and financial targets• Coordinated process to create a set of organisational values and set up a plan to launch and embed them• Constructed detailed risk assessment of all activities, and engaged key stakeholders to identify key mitigating steps to be taken• Designed implementation plan and management tool to help management to reach the goals necessary to achieve their strategic visions, and to mitigate their risksContinue to provide support of these initiatives with the current management team

London, United Kingdom

Summer internship working on retail pricing for fast food retailer, based on sales forecast and elasticity modeling