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Brighton, Gb

London

Working with clients to transform the way they work, bringing about more streamlined processes and time/cost efficiencies.Following the Listen, Imagine, Validate, Execute framework with clients. Getting under the skin of their operational challenges and co creating optimised ways of working. Embedding continuous participatory change across organisations.

London, England, United Kingdom

Programme managed the transformation of the business to a practice led model, facilitating the adoption of change across the creative and media sides of the business. Adopting a culture of experimentation, testing hypotheses before scaling them across the business.Set up the Commerce practice from scratch, building out our P&L, driving growth, creating structure within which to operate. Led the implementation globally of the multi OpCo WPP team with The Coca-Cola company on their Marketing transformation programme. Successfully creating and implementing multidisciplinary content studios across nine regions globally. Bringing proven cost efficiencies to our client.Keen stakeholder management, ensuring both global and local voices were heard while we designed our ways of working. Successfully led the transition with the global Mars Food team to create a fully integrated agency model. Facilitating transition workshops, mapping out processes to support new ways of working, successfully bringing together multiple agencies, capabilities and clients globally. This consolidation enabled cost efficiencies and facilitated a better quality of work.

Brighton, United Kingdom

As board director and member of the leadership team I oversaw all operational, people and project management aspects of the business. Successfully led the transition of the business to an employee owned trust.I was a key member of the leadership team in transforming the business by implementing new systems and processes to streamline Clearleft as it grew, bringing cost benefits.Key accountabilities lay in process enhancement/refinement, resource planning/capacity management, leading continuous improvement across the business, people and culture strategy, legal, overseeing financial health, employee experience and DEI strategy.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Oversaw all project/program management of a variety of successfully delivered UX, strategy, research and development projects with clients such as Kew Gardens, The Wellcome Trust, John Lewis, Nordea Bank, UNICEF, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Responsible for implementing a resource planning/forecasting process, including tools to the studio.Relationship management of all our clients.

London, United Kingdom

Project managed a number of UX and customer insight projects for clients such as Barclays Wealth, Barclays Corporate, Design Council, Transport for London and Zurich. I was largely responsible for client management, scoping of work, budgeting, proposal writing, pitching, risk management and managing a team of project managers, designers and researchers. I have good experience in working alongside partner agencies and clients to achieve success in fast paced projects.I was also responsible for the resource management in the studio.

Brighton, United Kingdom

I worked on a number of project management contracts during this time for companies including Make Sense Design, Wired Sussex , Designate and Kineo.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Project managed numerous web and e-learning projects for clients including Orange, DfES, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Legal & General, Lloyds TSB and The Financial Services Authority. Duties included client management, project planning, resource management, people management, budgeting, scoping and expectation management.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Project managed a number of web projects for clients including Norwich Union, Ladbrokes, PlayUK and Endemol. Duties included client management, project planning, resource management, budgeting and expectation management.

Middlesex

Various roles - Project Manager, Outsourcing Consultant, Supplier Manager. Duties included managing a team, managing the performance of the preferred IT contractor agencies and outsourced software companies, producing and evaluating ITTs, implementing working processes within the department, negotiating agency margins, building strong relationships with senior IT managers and presenting to groups across the IT department.

Ba (Hons) Applied Language Studies, French, Spanish, European Law

Applied Language Studies (French and Spanish)

Spanish Diploma

French Diploma

Education record

11 O levels 3 A levels