Sarah Thomson Email & Phone Number

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

San Francisco, California, Us

- Leading for Growth (VP+) Program Manager: Managed the LFG program across 5+ cohorts. Supported the team in delivering a successful program, encompassing process management, project planning, and data analysis to inform strategy and design.- AI Learning Day (Internal) Joint Program Manager: Owned communications, enablement, and technology to ensure the successful delivery of our first AI Learning Day for all Salesforce employees.- Leading for Impact+ Project Manager: Assisted the program lead in building and managing project plans from design to delivery.- Leadership Milestone Program Nominations Process Lead: Led the strategy, design, and delivery of the nomination process for all Leadership Development programs (Accelerate, Elevate, LFS, LFG & LFI+) for FY26. Responsibilities included strategy and design, stakeholder engagement, communications and enablement, and process and technology improvements and implementation.

San Francisco, California, Us

Program Manager for the Enterprise Leaders Pathway, our SVP+ most senior leaders, which consists of: - Key partner to the Program Lead in design & delivery of the pathway offerings- Partner Relationship Management; onboard and partner with external vendors to deliver experiences - Comms Strategy; plan, create and post comms - Employee Experience to include; enablement resources, in-person experiences, presentations, etc. - Project Management

San Francisco, California, Us

- Leader of the High Impact Teaming, Coaching & Mentoring operations team- Responsible for program management of key programs- Project Management of key projects- Process Optimisation- Regional Talent Partnering to include talent reviews and talent programs

San Francisco, California, Us

Working in the EMEA Talent Development team specialising in Open Programs, Mentoring & 1st Line Manager Capability.

San Francisco, California, Us

Operational support of all Open Programs in EMEA.

San Francisco, California, Us

EA support to the VP Finance and VP Employee Success to include diary & email management, complex travel arrangements, visa's, event planning and organisation, etc.

Austin, Texas, Us

My role at Neverfail has involved supporting the CEO and the Executive Team on a daily basis. I have also performed a number of other duties supporting the HR and Finance department. Please see a summary below:•Extensive worldwide travel – to include creation of detailed itineraries •Diary management•E-mail management – including responding on the CEO’s behalf•Personal PA Duties to the CEO •Event planning – to include Quarterly Sales Kick Offs (US & UK), Exec Meetings, Board Meetings, Company wide Sales Club trips•Expenses•Attendance at and minute taking at Board Meetings and Executive Meetings •Running Reports•HR Filing •New Hire Offer Letters•Maintaining the employee spreadsheet to ensure all salary information and address information is up to date•Arranging Interviews •Maintaining and filing of all recruitment agency contracts•Creating and maintaining the holiday spreadsheet for the UK, Australia and Dubai•Insurance policy filing for insurance policies for UK, Australia and Dubai•Travel Insurance Claims•Office moves to include; locating new office, lease negotiations, seating plans and office move•Maintaining of all office leases for the UK, Dubai and Australia•Selection and contract negotiation of UK travel agency

San Jose, California, Us

During my time at Symantec I worked for the VP of Emerging Markets supporting him in all day to day duties to include:•Diary management •Worldwide travel for VP and direct management •Email management•Expenses submission •Arranging management meetings•Weekly sales reporting •Minute taking for Management Meetings and weekly sales calls

Nov 2003 – April 2005 PA to SVP EMEA• SVP Level PA providing support to the Head of EMEA and his Senior Management Team; tasks include diary management, European and International travel, organising meetings and taking action items, reporting, and expenses.• Supporting the Senior Management Team involves supporting various departments to include; HR, Operations, Finance and Marketing; tasks include organising interviews, filing, reporting, updating HR systems with employee details, internal and external event organisation, meeting minutes.July 2001 – Nov 2003 Training Coordinator/PA• PA to the EMEA Training Director and administration support to the EMEA training organisation.• Point of contact for all customers wishing to attend webMethods training.• Co-ordination of all training courses throughout EMEA, to include; sourcing of location, trainers, material shipment, customer registration, and customer on-site quotes.

BT Sales Associate April 2001 – July 2001* Responsible for the management of the reseller channel into BT* Customer Quotes* Ensuring reseller contacts are up to date on training of the VERITAS products to assist with the selling of VERITAS products.* General Administration on the request of the two BT Account Managers* Organisation of meetings with BT for the two BT Account Manager and consequent meeting with the relevant resellerJan 2000 – March 2001General and Commercial Workgroup Account Manager* Liaise with Resellers to increase VIP (licensing) Sales * Up-sell the VERITAS product range* Selling of consulting and training into all accounts* Follow up on Internal Sales leads* Arrange Customer meetings in order to maximise the Sale* Follow up on meetings actions* Qualify and pass Enterprise leads to the correct account manager* Quote customers and resellers* Forecasting of Deals* Understanding the order process within End Users * Ensure orders are procured to forecasted deadlines through end users and resellersJan 1999 – Dec 1999 Team Leader Internal Sales* Product training of new and current employees* Day to day customer issues * Logging and resolving customer complaints* Answering of inbound calls* Sending out reseller leads and collating feedback* Managing the Reseller Lead Program* Management of the VERITAS Incentive Program dealing with customer queries on orders and serial numbersJan 1998 – Dec 1998 Internal Sales ExecutiveJuly 1997 – Dec 1997 Office Administrator/ Receptionist