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Warwick, Gb

Warwick, Gb

Warwick, England, United Kingdom

Facilitate the delivery of projects that are designed to both inform the energy industry and support its preparations. Such projects help to ensure that Great Britain's electricity supply consistently and safely exceeds consumer demand. Responsibilities include:Project Management: Manage projects from initial scoping to final delivery, making sure key/sub milestones timings are met, lead risk workshops, and conducting lessons learnt reviews.Project Planning: Support Senior leadership on both formulating and planning their projects. Provide consistency of approach in aligned formats/templates to ensure consistent high-quality output(s) and capture insights to drive value in final project delivery.Stakeholder Mapping: Plan, to ensure active collaboration and regular touchpoints between Senior Leadership, technical and non-technical teams. This is to deliver actionable insights, drive continuous improvement through project timelines and reduce the risk of siloed working.Change Initiatives: Led the implementation of new processes with the aim of ensuring methodologies and suitable IT tools systems were in place to ensure excellent levels of project management and stakeholder support.Key Achievement: Successfully project managed to support with the successful delivery of the ESO ‘Summer Outlook 2024 report’. This involved setting up a detailed project plan, leading risk and key/sub-deliverable workshops and managing the final drafting process prior to it to be published.

Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

Developed NGETs future business strategy in the context of Great Britain's ‘Net-Zero’ energy transition, responsibilities include:Further Project Management: Given the freedom to research, work-on and present findings into factors that could impact NGET. Such completed topics include: ‘Viability of Energy Storage To Support The Grid’ and ‘NGET Strategic Workforce Planning’Horizon/Market Scanning: My selected area of expertise is transport due to my 10-years automotive experience acquired at JLR. My focus is to understand aligned industry trends and highlight new technological opportunities to NGET.- This included a self-set project, where I compared the viability of Hydrogen (H2) vs lithium batteries.Qualitative Reporting: Created, manage, and now circulate a quarterly qualitative .pdf article that highlights the landscape of legislative/clean energy development milestones. It also includes detail of specific technological examples that are of interest. Interviews/Hiring: Experienced in considering CVs, covering letters, and conducting interviews, hiring at graduate and senior analyst levels. Currently manage one person with a track record of successfully onboarding new starters.Key Achievement: Was given full project manager responsibilities 3-weeks into joining National Grid due to the person managing my on-boarding moving roles internally. Networked quickly/effectively to aid my learning to onboard myself quickly so I could deliver already in-progress projects on-time (Sep-22) despite initial ambiguity.Projects presented in Nov-22 where I received highly positive feedback from National Grid Executives. I was informed that they were able to fully understand the information in the project in my chosen format.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Created and managed all global reporting on all SVO vehicle/bespoke paint sales/forecasts and product positioning.Responsibilities included:Product Knowledge: Created product portfolios which are then circulated to senior stakeholders to help expand their knowledge, often prior to beginning the sales forecasting process. To do this I made sure to learn both commercial and engineering aspects of each SVO vehicle so to fully understand how to forecast, negotiate and segment respectively.Sales Forecasting: Created and managed the SVO retail, wholesale and bespoke paint forecasting (i.e. strategic planning/budget setting) process. This involved extensive primary research, harnessing historic data insights/trends and extensive product knowledge to forecast demand. I also forecasted competitor sales demand based on historic volume and perceived market trends.Senior Stakeholder Engagement/Negotiation: As the global point of contact for SVO sales forecasting, I treated regional/market Directors as ‘customers’ where I project manage their bespoke requirements so all parties can agree on forecasted budget positions. This helped to ‘sell’ SVO internally and aided negotiation processes, even justifying business cases of pre-release vehicles.Product/Vehicle Segmentation: Created the initial vision and the ruleset for justifying what competitors are directly up against current and future SVO models. This enabled SVO to target specific vehicles of interest in terms of volume and/or seasonality trends globally, or by market/region.Qualitative Reporting: Wrote a monthly 20-page qualitative .pdf article which highlights the features/technologies of current/future SVO competitors.Key Achievement:Via a combination of some of the above points, drove through a 30% increase in 19/20 SVO vehicle sales forecasts vs the original submission. This led to a significant financial (9-figure) boost to the forecasted budget for that fiscal year

Coventry, United Kingdom

Created and managed the process for providing internal and competitor product/market intelligence for SVO and for the wider business.Responsibilities included:SVO Parts Pricing: Created a pricing database so there was a single source of truth where reliable data could be used/accessed which helped predict the viability/cost of SVO vehicles undergoing study phases.Primary Research: Monitored competitor volume trends to understand the latest automotive vehicle, engine, power and body style demand patterns which supported the on-going development of future (study phase) SVO vehiclesNew Vehicle Launch Support: Prepared material for vehicle launch meetings by supplying and presenting SVO/competitor data, illustrating market trends, justifying any findings and highlighting potential gaps in the marketKey Achievement: Created working Excel documents where SVO/competitor historic/forecasted volumes could be automatically calculated via Excel-formulas. It enables users to simply select what they require through ready-made dropdown/option lists.This in part led to the board level request for a horizontal move into Sales Operations for my skillset to be utilized in the creation of a repeatable SVO volume/forecast planning process

Coventry, United Kingdom

Led vehicle/option pricing for the 2017 vehicle/special-edition launch, taking on full manager responsibility during the latter 9-months following my (at the time) manager having moved rolesResponsibilities included:Benchmarking: Calculated suitable JLR vehicle price positions by comparing their specification against direct competitors in Excel. Developed tailored presentations which were used as visual aids to compare pricing in particular markets/segments.SAP Analysis: Set part pricing as well as authorising discounts where applicable. Monitored the flow of business to warehouse/customer transactions, ensuring all ordering was correct to help minimise delay.Key achievement:Took on manager responsibilities when the role became vacant (circa 9-months) and managed the creation of 2017 bespoke to market Range Rover Evoque pricing papers. I successfully attained director/CFO sign off for each of my price positions for every market in which Evoque's were on sale. Achieving this milestone led to a promotional move into Special Vehicle Operations.

Gaydon, United Kingdom

Managed the day to day activities of two pricing analysts, domestic/international vehicle parts pricing and assisted my manager on new part/pricing proposals.Responsibilities included:Data Management: Managed several countries worth of vehicle parts pricing data.SAP: Set part pricing as well as authorising discounts where applicable. Monitored the flow of business to warehouse/customer transactions, ensuring all ordering was correct to help minimise delay.Key achievement: Selected to take on a 9-month project where I had to initially learn/test then become a ‘super-user’ in a new version of SAP that was previously outsourced from JLR, managing its successful implementation in 2014.Created multiple step-by-step training manuals, both basic and advanced to help teach my team how to perform tasks in the new system. These training manuals are still currently in use.It involved daily 60+ mile commutes to Unipart in Oxford where the processes were, at-the-time, being used.

Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Worked for the UK’s leading provider of environmental compliance, assisting companies to comply with government environmental regulations. Worked on major accounts including Sainsbury’s, B&Q, Tesco, and Shell. Cleansed and processed submitted data relating to client obligations under the UK packaging waste laws.Frequent use of MS Excel and Access to analyse data and to produce reports which were submitted to the Government’s Environment Agency.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Worked on government endorsed projects, helping to ensure they were completed to a high quality and timely manner.Undertook primary/secondary research for the development of reports. Conducted detailed analysis of data using Excel and Access.Prepared monthly reports and presentations for the Executive team, providing written summaries of data analysis to colleagues in concise and appropriate formats to aid with their delivery.

Ba Hons, Business Economics

Dissertation Class 2:1. Title: A STUDY INTO EUROPEAN FOOTBALL AND ITS MODERN FINANCING - An Investigation into the effects that increased.

Economics, Business Studies, And Sociology

Activities and Societies: Participated in the football, athletics and basketball teams.

10 Gcse'S English: B, Maths: B

Activities and Societies: Participated in the football, basketball, cricket and athletics teams.