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Strategic and operational input to regional and country teams to drive market growth across +21 countries.

Steered the International region through the complexities brought on by a global pandemic, with the spotlight firmly focussed on digital and multichannel as a means to sustain and increase engagement with physicians during a critical growth phase of Alnylam.

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

Conceived and launched a start-up company in remote patient monitoring for oncology patients. Six months in LA with BCG-Digital Ventures, securing $11m in seed investments > incubated > trialled in US. Acquired in April 2020 by BioFourmis Pharmaceuticals.

Led the creation of a fresh digital channels strategy – ensuring the right technologies and platforms are being used consistently by the business, to maximum effect. As a related project, I managed an overhaul of the Shire.com website plus 18 local country websites, incorporating design and build, UX, SEO, governance and analytics, whilst complying with stringent industry regulations (ABPI, FDA). I am adept at managing virtual teams, and do so on a daily basis.Other significant projects• Project managing Shire’s global intranet, resulting in a better self-servicing, collaborative and more productive global workforce. Traffic increased by + 35%, due to ease of use and findability/relevance of content. Established a programme of continued improvements, based on feedback, analytics and new trends.• Implementing Shire’s first employee social network. 77% of workforce engaged with the platform on a monthly basis; these rates that exceeded industry-averages. I was responsible for Yammer in its entirety.• Redesigned the company’s global corporate communications framework. The business case I presented to senior leadership showed how integrating platforms would improve user experience (and thereby engagement and ROI on corporate messaging) as well as save time for the team. Analytics informed optimisation.• I created and launched the company’s global social media policy, ultimately being digitally signed by 5,500+ employees. I collaborated with senior members of Compliance and Legal teams, and presented at ExCo.• Established an editorial team and editorial calendar to better plan and manage messages across a plethora of digital channels. This has heavily reduced duplication of teamwork, and enabled greater reach for messaging.• Innovated to address CEO’s internal communications needs by creating a unique live-blog system within a four-week time constraint. This met his requirements on enabling a two-way dialogue with all employees.

Basingstoke, Hampshire

Heathrow Airport

In my third year at Heathrow's Terminal 5, I led the full internal communications programme for 10,000 construction workers. Before then, I initially managed the Terminal 5 intranet and looked after photography and film (4000 photos/month) that captured key moments during the construction of T5. I quickly advanced to becoming Editor-in-Chief for ‘The Site’, an award-winning internal communications newspaper with a peak circulation of 10,000, and continued to roll out large-scale print campaigns to ensure messaging reached every person on site.I was also involved in numerous airport-wide projects. The most notable was in project-managing world’s first airport passenger information guides regarding liquids in hand luggage. Yes! The large posters you see at BAA airports today (75ml products in clear plastic bags) were first developed by our very small team. I learned to adapt quickly to worldwide crisis situations in order to deliver quality communications in record time.

3rd year at University, industrial placement

Bsc Hons, Computer Science

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