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Chichester, England, United Kingdom

A member of the Group Leadership Team (GLT), having strategic responsibility for all aspects of sales, marketing, commercial and public affairs. The role has responsibility for driving up income/profit in line with the Group Commercial & Growth StrategyKey products and services include: Apprenticeships, T-Levels, Higher Education, 16-18 provision, Adult learning, Commercial & professional courses, Leases, licences, lets & hires.Strategic and partnership lead for the Sussex & Surrey Institute of Technology.

Chichester

At a group and campus level, I am responsible for leading on all aspects of sales, marketing, communications, commercial engagement and public affairs. I also lead on our commercial leisure services and well as our offender learning programmes.I oversee the account management team at Chichester, Brinsbury, Crawley , Haywards Heath and Worthing Colleges.Ultimately I am responsible for driving up income/profit and customer/learner numbers in line with the Group Commercial & Growth Strategy.

Member of the Gatwick Diamond Executive Council

Chichester, England, United Kingdom

Chichester

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom

London

Collab Group is a forward thinking membership organisation which represents leading UK Colleges and College Groups.Collab Group colleges, in collaboration with others, are transforming the UK economy through the delivery of high-quality technical and professional education.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Senior leader in this Ofsted Grade 1 Colleges' structure. Strategic and operational responsible for all commercial sales activities including apprenticeship, professional and bespoke training, commercial units and room hires. Frequent liaison with senior external stakeholders including employers, Local Enterprise Partnerships, Chambers of Commerce, Universities and Local Authorities. Lead on the preparation and submission of College funding and commercial bids and tenders.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Strategic and operational responsibility for all aspects of the College’s Digital Technologies as well as College strategic lead for Innovation and Business Transformation.Development of strategies to ensure the highly effective deployment and delivery of the IT business support function as well as the commercialisation of IT.Design and development of new innovative learning spaces across the College’s estate to meet changing needs of students and the curriculum. Strategic lead for the Business Transformation project to transform business processes to streamline, re-engineer and improve operational effectiveness as well as reimagine the student journeyWork with Business Support Functions to develop and implement cost reduction strategies to improve efficiencies including supplier contract renegotiations. Work with Directors and Heads of Departments to implement new working practices and curriculum delivery modalities (e.g. Virtual Classrooms and Flexible Learning models).Development and Leadership of the College Innovation Hub and activities.Complex restructuring of multidisciplinary teams to ensure the effective and efficient running of key business services.Responsibility for Data Protection and Freedom of Information management and administration.

Portsmouth

Transformational leadership of a multi-functional technical team, including recruitment, and training, performance management and appraisal resulting in a high performing, service focused team.Key responsibilities included: Lead on all strategic, operational, service and and improvement objectives including strategic and policy formulation.Defining the service culture to provide excellence to all stakeholders.Management of significant capital and revenue budget responsibilities.Management of large, complex third-party service and delivery contracts.Lead on programmes of improvement and development such as the digital planning, design and implementation of a £65m+ student-centred campus redevelopment programme including all aspects of IT and digital communications.Monitoring and setting operational performance, systems capacity, budgetary controls, service level agreements (SLAs) as well as internal KPI metrics including balance scorecards.Inspire digital innovation across the organisation.

Chair of the 157 Technology & Innovation Network. Working with other 157 Group Colleges to drive IT in Further Education and support 157 Colleges to lead on Technology & InnovationLead of a £650k technology collaboration project consisting of 10+ Colleges.

Southampton, United Kingdom

IT Manager for the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences. Sole responsibility for the implementation of IT, communication and support systems which also included the design and implementation of a high profile £20m+ Science Learning Centre which was based at the University.In this role I managed a small team of engineers to administer and configure various technologies working closely with the Dean to ensure that the facilities strategic objectives were realised. I was responsible for all IT management, delivering innovative and cutting edge ICT to support the establishment and running of the new centre including the development of custom centre database to track courses, contacts, finance and centre administration.Responsibility for the evaluation and acquisition of hardware, software and support services, including backup and disaster recovery as well as the implementation of multi-site video conferencing to deliver innovative science teaching to other universities and schools across the southeast region.Oversaw the management of Faculties IT networks, both hardwired and wired networks, including security policies & protocols.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Responsible for provision and operational management of IT services and faculty web services for use by students, academic & support staff within the Faculty of Humanities.Managed a small team that supported hardware including PC hardware, servers, printers, peripherals, in addition with MS Software. The primary aim was the delivery of efficient and effective information technology solutions, delivered on an enterprise-wide basisLead the evaluation and implementation of state of the art digital language laboratories supporting teaching, learning and assessment for language students. This was implemented across a number of language labourites and was one of the first digital language lab installations in the country.

London, United Kingdom

Senior-level IT role within Euromoney Institutional Investors plc (Associated Newspapers) with responsibility for effective control of finance & accounting systems, reporting directly to the CIO.Focused on ensuring delivery of business-critical finance services, including disaster recovery planning issues as well as the provision of top-level support for a network of 40+ direct users, together with users in other departments.Lead the implementation and then administration of a new finance solution hosted on Compaq Alpha Servers (UNIX), running SUN accounts and Oracle 8 database systems.

London, United Kingdom

Placement year at British Airways PLC working across Europe with the IM Strategy & Infrastructure Team to implement and evaluate new technologies such as WAP, onboard wireless and self-sevice check in. Projects included working with specialist teams from IBM and Nokia.Attending project boards and reporting on progress to the senior IT team including the Chief Information Officer.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations, Merit

Bachelor'S Degree, Computing & Informatics, 2:1