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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Lead the design and implementation of Customer division strategic planning processes.• Part of the Customer Tribe Leadership Team, working with Directors and the Managing Director to establish a Customer narrative and vision that supports the wider business key strategic aims.• Lead and collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure yearly strategic plans are created, continuously maintained and aligned to the wider group strategy.• Development of Customer Tribe metrics to ensure that relevant initiatives are identified that make an impact to the business, and enabling the continuous measurement of initiative return on investment.• Collaborating with Customer Tribe leadership teams to develop strategic plans for each half yearly period, ensuring alignment to the wider division and group strategic plans.• Lead the optimisation and continuous improvement activity on cross Tribe and Customer Tribe strategic planning processes.• Working with senior stakeholders to redesign operating models and ways of working.• Leading improvement/testing projects to improve the cross divisional strategic planning process utilising Workfront project management software.• Mental Health First Aider and Wellbeing Champion, supporting colleagues with their Wellbeing and working with other Wellbeing Champions to deliver the businesses Wellbeing strategy.Key successes:o Establishing the weekly review of quarterly priorities within the Customer Senior Leadership Team, enabling the effective tracking of key division initiatives.o Creation of the first Strategic Planning Playbook and rolling it out top relevant stakeholders.o Successfully designing and introducing the in-division planning process for the Customer Tribe culminating with the successful alignment of roadmaps within the Customer Tribe.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Reducing house build time and cost, whilst increasing quality standards.• Established Operations department Strategic roadmap (Hoshin Kanri) with Senior Leadership Team.• Mentoring 13 Green Belts through Level 2 and 3 NVQ qualifications ensuring on the job application of key Lean concepts and benefit realisation is communicated to the wider organisation.• Created a Site Floor Daily Management system. Leader Standard Work and installation of visual management across all reporting levels for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Productivity and People.• Management of multi-site 5S programme.• Establishing Quality Milestone checks and audits.Key initiatives/successes:o Over 25% reduction in time spent searching for materials and tools by Fit Out teams.o Installed Site Floor Daily Management with total visibility for Senior Management of delivery dates, bottle necks, daily issues and blockers.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Managed the Continuous Improvement Unit for Leeds Beckett University, developing and embedding a culture of Continuous Improvement throughout the organisation.• Utilised a range of Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies, in line with the organisation’s 2016 - 2021 Strategic Framework.• Managed and maintain the CI Unit’s workload, budget, performance and its employees. Ensuring the personal development of the CI Unit and its team members are in line with organisational goals.• Engage with multiple stakeholders, as well as partnering with Senior Management.• Developed an in-house Continuous Improvement training and targeted events programme.• Contributing to the University’s Customer Service Excellence accreditation and the associated key performance indicators within the Strategic Planning Framework 2016-2021.• Standardisation of departmental reports, reporting methods, documentation and individual project outputs. E.g. visual management metric board concepts for individual departments.• Overall responsibility for Strategic Initiatives/Projects covering: Timetabling, Admissions and US Loans. Key initiatives/successes:o Established departmental employee training programme – 3 ASQ Green Belts and 1 ASQ Black Belto Introduction to Continuous Improvement training programme - over 100 employees trained in 9 months

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Management and co-ordination of Continuous Improvement initiatives within the business, ensuring the Continuous Improvement culture was established and developed within all departments (Operational and Transactional).• Developed strategies and standardised approaches to enhance business performance (safety, quality, cost, delivery and performance). Interpreting business needs and aligning local business objectives with the corporate strategy - e.g. shop floor daily management program.• Significant experience in partnering the executive leadership team. • Communicating and working with senior management to align a localised strategy to the corporate strategy using an X-Matrix/Hoshin Kanri.• Organisation and delivery of 17 Yellow Belt and Green Belt training courses and mentoring over 250 Yellow Belt and Green Belt practitioners within the facility. Strong interpersonal skills with a supportive approach to others leading to a cumulative cost saving of over $900,000.• Excellent working knowledge of various Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies including; PDCA, DMAIC, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, TQM, Kaizen events, 5S (6S), 8 Wastes, Kanban, Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping.• Created and delivered Continuous Improvement training platforms including; Introduction to Continuous Improvement, Learning to see and 5S Leader training.• Leader and facilitator of 16 Kaizen Events - total savings of over $850,000. • Interrogated, amended and established work instructions, procedures, processes. Key Initiatives:o Paint Improvement - Cost and waste reduction decreased by 93%o Lessons Learnt Database initative o Day 1 Planning Process Improvement – Tender inquiry to Project Executiono Leeds Plant 5S Initiative - design and roll out of 5S programmeo Shop Floor Daily Management - design and roll outo Employee Enterprise Excellence scheme managemento Tooling support programme

Leeds

Project Management:May 2015 – Nov 2015 - Package Manager - $75m package for $650m+ Exxon Mobil Tree and Tooling ScopeFeb 2014 – May 2015 - Project Coordinator for Exxon Mobil $75m Tree,Tooling and CAPEX packagesDec 2013 – Feb 2014 - Project Coordinator/Expeditor for $11m Total scopeMay 2012 – Dec 2013 - Package Manager for $9m BP EDP/LRP/Open Water Riser System scope• Project Execution for Subsea Systems for Product and Systems Projects with working knowledge in Management in Change, Risk Management and Mitigation techniques. Managing and facilitating Manufacturing, Procurement and Assembly activities within plant environment.• Experienced in schedule management, critical path identification/management enabling adherence to on time delivery• Highly effective internal and external stakeholder communicator, with experience across multiple regions/cultures. Successful in building ongoing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, customers and sub-contractorsKey successes:o Successful delivery of $10m Tooling Scope 4 months ahead of first oil milestone which supported Exxon Mobil achieve $400m under budget project deliveryo Delivery of 2000+ line items deliverables to support in country activities in Africa regiono Successful recovery of $9m BP work scope through effective management of multiple global sub-contractorso Delivery of two $1m CAPEX scopes for UK and Nigerian plants enabling products to be built and tested in accordance with tight delivery schedule

Leeds, Uk

Package Manager and Project Coordinator - Subsea division for Cameron Ltd.May 2012 – Dec 2013 - Package Manager for $9m BP scopeMar 2012 – Sept 2012 - Package Manager for $150k Chevron Scope Jan 2012-Apr 2012 - Project Coordinator for $7m BP Scope Responsibilities:Ownership of the project P&LCost control and maximisation of the project margin via management of change processRisk identification and mitigationSchedule managementCritical path managementAbility to build an ongoing effective relationship with a customer and effective customer negotiationParticipation in internal improvement projectsEnsuring departmental procedures are adhered to including quality assurance manualsChecking of work performed by others to ensure correctness and accuracyExpediting activities

Msc, International Business, Merit

2.1, Business Administration

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