Strategic and technical adviser specialising in stakeholder engagement, advanced manufacturing and working with government and its agencies.• Improving performance in advanced manufacturing industry, to ensure world class competitiveness. • Step change, break-through, transformational projects to support new model allocation and improve competitiveness and productivity at Nissan. • Ensuring compliance with corporate governance processes and stewardship of projects through the various internal and external processes, and due diligence. • Providing independent scrutiny for grant award bodies’ review panels.• Coordinating cross-functional teams with corporate and specialist state aid lawyers, corporate finance and accountancy for capex/opex, engineers, logistics, innovators in academia/catapults/solution providers/consortia and bid writing • Former senior technical manager for the Environment Team overseeing all environmental issues for the UK automotive sector, leading the technical representation to government, European affiliates and institutions. Key words: automotive, stakeholder engagement, business relationship management, innovation, corporate strategy, industrial strategy, grant funding, bid writing, independent review, due diligence, corporate governance/board/panel, coordinating cross-functional teams, environmental management, sustainability, benchmarking, business case, business development, government, ISO14001, management, negotiation, collaboration agreement, consortium agreements, paint shop, packaging, press releases, production, project management, PRINCE2, reports, safety, waste, recycling, producer responsibility, low carbon, CO2, climate change, lobbying, public policy development, trade association, environmental consultancy, advocacy, lobbying, Masters, MSc, Chartered, CEnv. Views are my own, not necessarily shared by my employer.