Marie-Claude Hemming Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

• Deputy CEO equivalent.• Policy, advocacy and public affairs lead.• Media and company spokesperson.• Client liaison and engagement.• Responsible for two Construction Leadership Council workstreams seeking to address late payment and poor contractual behaviours. The payment workstream recently secured cross industry consensus and Government support to develop legislation to reform payment, including measuring performance on the value of payments made by large firms to their supply chains, as well as their volume, and on the reporting on retentions (percentage of contract held back).• Organisational lead for commercial activity on Artificial Intelligence and Managing our Aging Assets.•Secretariat to three member led sector groups. Responsible for Townhall and adhoc member meetings.• Completed Help to Grow Management, equivalent to a mini MBA. Now using knowledge gained to substantially contribute to long term company strategy.• Business plan lead and budget management.• Line management.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Secured funding to expand my team with the appointment of a Public Affairs Executive. • Continued line management of media relations colleague. • Commissioned CEBR to produce research on the benefits to social value of infrastructure investment, with a forward written by Mark Thurston, Chief Executive of HS2.• Gave communications support to the Construction Leadership Council in its response to Covid- 19.• Launched two new sector groups for CECA members seeking opportunities in Highways Maintenance and Energy. • Signed four Partnership Agreements to support mutually beneficial working with some of our industry's biggest clients.• Media and company spokesperson.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Submitted crucial and well regarded written and oral evidence to the Armitt Commission - then a Labour Party initiative to establish a National Infrastructure Commission, later adopted by the Conservative Government.• Appointed as official media spokesperson. • Developed and managed CECA’S first annual member conference with a keynote Ministerial speech and speakers from key industry clients and Government. • Focused on raising CECA’s profile via public speaking.• Established three new member groups to support our policy and public affairs activity: Public Affairs, Procurement and Innovation. The Procurement Group developed two critical policy reports on procurement reform which formed the basis of legislative change in the current Procurement Bill and the independent Cabinet Office review of Frameworks. The Innovation Group’s report supported the creation of the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Platform (I3P) as an innovation community that shares valuable ideas and opportunities across the infrastructure industry through a culture of collaboration.• Contributed to the case for levelling up via infrastructure investment.• Worked with the Highways Agency and Department for Transport to make the case for five-year substantial funding cycles for the strategic road network.• Oversaw upgrade of company website. • Line management of one media relations colleague.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Established CECA's policy and public affairs presence, notably via working with members to produce a series of regional and national policy reports as the basis for engagement with local and national policy makers, civil servants select committees and influencers.• Commissioned a research report from the CEBR on the economic benefits of infrastructure investment. It was cited in HMT’s National Infrastructure Plan and set the ball rolling for the long-term infrastructure investment we have seen to date.• Provided the secretariat to CECA's member led Water, Nuclear, Roads and Transport member groups. These groups focus on client engagement, horizon scanning, understanding future work opportunities and influencing client and government policy making.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Worked to improve Post Office and Royal Mail services for SMEs. Notably this included a dedicated campaign to expand banking operations within all Post Offices, which became a Labour Party Manifesto commitment in 2010.• Escalated the campaign to reform the beer tie, which resulted in the reopening of a Select Committee inquiry, Government consultation and legislative change. • Worked with the UK Government on the implementation of maternity and paternity leave reform based on FSB policy recommendations.• Made the case for the reintroduction of the New Enterprise Allowance, a scheme enabling job seekers in receipt of job seekers allowance to start their own businesses.• Advocated on behalf of SMEs to ensure a 12-week exemption period before an employee had to be automatically enrolled into a pension scheme and made the case for members of staff to be excluded from enrolment until they were earning more than the threshold for their personal allowance on income tax.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Established weekly and monthly monitoring briefings for clients.• Developed a weekly tracker covering the progress of smoking bans across the world at national, state and county level. • Produced regular research reports for clients on UK, European and global policy developments and current affairs.• Gained detailed knowledge into: Tobacco, alcohol, fast food, food manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and charity sectors.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for parliamentary and policy monitoring for various clients across Westminster, Scotland Wales, Northern Ireland and London. • Produced weekly and monthly briefings for clients and consultancy colleagues.• Contributed to commissioned client research projects.• Generated content for the company website.• Gained detailed insight into: Charity, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, environment, transport, and water sectors.

Help To Grow Management, Business Administration And Management, General

2:1, History With French

Bachelor’S Degree, History With French, 2:1 Equivalent