• Daily management and mentoring of bid team members on all aspects of competitive bidding by providing support and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning.• Lead bid team calls to review, prioritise, assign, and quality check new bids, onboard new hires and provide counsel for sales professionals and SMEs as required.• Lead innovative process improvement projects and have been critical in updating the current RFx process, knowledge management tools, and capture management approach.• Lead all aspects of RFXs, including liaising with all business units, developing key win strategies and delegating activities needed to complete the bid/tender requirements.• Personally lead the end-to-end bid management process of 35+ strategic proposals annually, predominately in EMEA and North America.• Create and update detailed RFP/Tender response project plans, templates, and timelines to deliver a winning submission that creates maximum value.• Lead RFP debriefs and track KPIs related to bid success rates, process efficiency, and team performance, ensuring continuous improvement and learning within the bid function.• Maintain knowledge of international/EU procurement rules and law and stay current with competitive practices on pricing, strategy, and functionality to support client influence and increase the probability of winning.• Work across related areas of the organisation, including—Legal, Finance, Contracts, Human Resources, Marketing, and Sales, in all geographies, as required to deliver compliant, winning bids.

The focus of my role is to drive the long-term financial sustainability of the project, whilst helping the project innovate it’s care provision.

Role within the school Academy Scrutiny Committee. I provide support, scrutiny, and challenge of achievement of targets, school improvement and pupil outcomes as well as unbiased, critical challenge to senior school leaders.

Developing strategy around improving proposal success rates.

• I lead all aspects of RFX’s, including acting as a liaison with all business units and delegating activities needed to complete the bid/tender requirements.• I lead the development of 30 to 40 concurrent proposals, predominately in EMEA.• I create and update detailed RFP/Tender response project plans, templates, and timelines with the goal of delivering a winning submission that creates maximum value.• I curate content for reuse and write executive summaries and other strategic pieces of content.• I am a leader within the proposal management team, leading fortnightly bid team calls and I am responsible for assigning new bids, onboarding new hires and a source of council for other bid managers and SMEs as required.• I lead RFP debriefs for wins and losses to learn from experience and improve our future win opportunities.• I maintain knowledge of international/EU procurement rules and law and stay current with competitive practices on pricing, strategy, and functionality to support client influence and increase of probability of winning• I work across related areas of the organisation including—Legal, Finance, Contracts, Human Resources, Marketing, and Sales, in all geographies, as required to deliver compliant, winning bids.• I drive escalations to closure including involvement of executive, legal and senior leadership teams.

RFP Writer, International Team. Blackboard Inc.

Responsible for overseeing the use of ILT and E-Learning to improve Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

Group Head of E-LearningResponsible for overseeing use of e-learning to improve teaching and learning.

Responsible for writing unit specification and online curriculum content for the Level 3 and Level 4 Digital Learning Design qualification provided by Ascentis awarding organisation.

Main duties include teaching in Foundation Studies to 14-19 yr olds in a range of subjects. Specialised in Media and IT. Worked as Band B tutor with additional responsibilities in E-Learning and integrating technology in teaching.

Worked a tutor to disaffected 14-16 yr olds with barriers to learning. Specialised in Media and Catering.

Worked as Music/IT technician with some additional duties including full cost recording engineer and part time lecturer.