Production:Crisis management. Responsible for prompt response strategy and action, communicating clearly with stakeholders, and redefining short-term KPIs. Retained customer with over 600 UK stores. Introduced an exclusive, eco-friendly material into supply chain (now used across thousands of stores). Trialled and integrated process improvements leading to customer retention and risk mitigation.Technical:Co-ordinated multiple partners, including university organisations, a dance company, and Artificial Intelligence designers, in the creation of live performance, filming, editing: https://tinyurl.com/5226h6ww Experience of applying for funding. Agile methodologies.

Responsible for implementing £1m spend to renovate building for specialist use: including a luxury dance and arts facility, video and audio recording studio. Co-ordinated multiple stakeholder interests, from concept, to successful building sign off, utilising hybrid methodologies. Produced Statements of Work for specialist service providers, with contingency planning, optimising budgetary constraints and timeline requirements.

Designed, prototyped and tested a range of UK Made, sustainable, modular furniture. Accepted onto ‘High Potential Startups’ (North East LEP) Business Accelerator Program. Experience of pitching for investment (Barclays), market analysis and strategic planning.

Opened up 4 international markets and 7 UK agent territories in 3 months. Responsible for development, production and sales of over 140 SKUs. Determining costing structure, marketing and promotion of all products. Budgeting. Responsible for the print, scheduling, stock control and delivery of over 180k letterpress cards per year. Presented product at numerous Trade Shows. Recruited and trained 2 staff members. H&S officer.5 product nominations for the Henries Greetings Card awards.

Worked in Nepal and Bangladesh to develop Fair Trade paper products suitable for western markets. Also worked directly with European Fair Trade Organisations to increase sales on behalf of third world producer groups, roadmapping new product offerings, and iterating using CPM frameworks.

Produced a successful multi-product ‘UK Made’ stationery offering that was rolled out across 700 stores, and an innovative point-of-sale unit utilised in thousands of stores to date. Tender presentation experience.