Uk General Manager
London, England, Gb
Grove is a rapidly developing technology company, focused on Cloud Computing, Mobility, Big Data Analytics & IoT. Awarded recently 4th place in Deloitte Fast 50 2015. As the UK manager I am responsible for the day to day running's of the UK projects team along with overseeing an additional 10 Internal new business development managers in South Africa. Project management; Within this role I support my clients from a technical & strategic account management prospective. Clients included; Jamie’s Italian, Addison Lee, Cobham and Pulse. A key part of this role is helping them define their technical strategy for the next 12 to 36 month period covering all areas of cloud solutions. Using technology to drive productivity and be a trusted advisor for their journey to the cloud including; selling, planning, on boarding, enhancing, managing, supporting and renewing . This requires having strong cloud knowledge across the board; Saas, Iaas & Paas. Product knowledge of Microsoft cloud infrastructure (Office 365 suite, Intune, Azure, EMS), Google cloud services (Google Apps for work, Google Vault, Google Cloud Platform), Mimecast email security management and a greater understanding of Big Data Analytics.Team Manager: Managing a team of technical & strategic account consultants. I personally look after Grove’s tier 1 customers, on top of this I help my team manage their accounts, develop strategic account plans and ensure they have what they require for their projects, advising them and our customers on which cloud computing tools and service would be the best fit for their business, the most suitable delivery model and what training would be required.Grove ventures project manager; Project managing the development of new products and the GTM plans; most recent projects include; a prescriptive analytics software, business process apps, a contact management tool and a global system automation project.