Having taken some time out to deal with extended family matters I am now ready to offer my years of expertise to a prospective employer. Please get in touch if I can be of benefit to your organisation!

I managed Sourcing & Consultancy projects & implemented solutions for global corporate customers whilst delivering the highest levels of expertise & service.

Out of work from the travel industry during the COVID pandemic.

I built a new Air programme of negotiated fares and incentive override agreements from scratch over a 6 month period which facilitated the company to exit from the Focus Partnership at the end of June 2019 in order to be able to manage our own commercials.I used Excel and Tableau data to monitor KPIs and provided recommendations to Operational, Financial and Senior Management on the optimum air strategy to follow in the UK.I single-handedly co-ordinated and managed a very complex British Airways JV Sales and Marketing Agreement across 5 different Business Entities.I was just beginning to really develop the programme further at the start of 2020 when the COVID global pandemic hit

See details below, although from January 2017 onwards I no longer managed hotel supplier relationships, only air & ground transportation, following an internal restructuring & new strategy.

Member of CWT’s Global Supplier Management team (& based in the UK) Management of local UK, EMEA, & Global Preferred Supplier relationships: – I worked with Travel Supplier Partners (Airlines, Hotels, Car, Rail & Ancillary) & CWT UK’s Account Management, Marketing & Operations teams to identify & implement where possible switch-sell opportunities to maximise income by use of Management Information reports, highlighting tools & messagingManagement of supplier activity for CWT's 10 country Eastern Europe Zone between 2012 & 2015 incl., which came to an end due to an internal regional reporting restructure.I have excellent verbal & written communication skills & I am used to meeting with people at all levels of the business, whether internal booking agents or Airline or hotel VPs. This is an essential part of my current role, as if you don't get on with people, you won't be able to influence them.I am fully conversant in MS Office applications, Excel, Word & Powerpoint. I produce regular reports from ID Studios (Cognos 10).I have been an effective influencer in securing better terms from suppliers in order to achieve higher revenues &/or cash rates from our commercial agreements

Creation of an internal audit programme for CWT-UKMaintenance of the internal audit programme via reviews on all CWT branch locations at least once per yearReporting of audit findings to CWT senior managementwhich lead on to:Administration of twice-yearly Branch Self-Assessment programme, including collating & reporting results to CWT Corporate Audit Dept. in Paris & performing follow-up branch reviews to validate reportsProduction of Back office Branch control reports & collating responses from Branch Managers to comply with Corporate Audit requirements

Managing a team of 6 staff in the general operation of the BSP officeTicket & Accounting Audits on accredited agentsParticipating in industry (Airline & Agency Group) meetings

Booking leisure travel arrangements for customersManaging a team of 4 Travel Consultants