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Ashbourne, GB

Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

• Working with a number of analysts to produce executive briefings and insight reports.
• STL Partners Executive Briefing: How can Telcos be loved? Investigating the opportunities and challenges for telcos in developing loved brands.
• STL Partners Research: Breaking down silos. Looking at the ways in which some telcos have approached the task of dismantling silos and going agile.
• Strategy Analytics Reports: Cybersecurity opportunities for telcos. Examining the role of telcos in providing cybersecurity products for consumers and businesses.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Non-Executive Director and Strategic Advisor for one of the leading providers of acute and specialist mental health services in Ireland. The company has 300 in-patient beds and generates revenue over €30m.
• Supporting the business to improve profitability by changing the service mix, identifying opportunities to reduce costs, and developing a strategy to address loss-making nursing home unit.
• Identifying options to de-leverage the business, through the sale of non-strategic assets.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for setting the international marketing strategy through the end-to-end analysis of key drivers and business performance, to identify potential options, develop recommendations, and secure support with.
• Defined Orange’s marketing and sales response to Covid-19 crisis, by recognising the different impacts on customers spend / behaviours and adapting sales and customer care operations. Implementing this plan ensured.
• Prepared the strategic rationale, market sizing, business plan and go to market approach for new consumer products and propositions. Examples of launched services include 5G mobile offers, digital propositions and.
• Launched a Pan-European, needs-based segmentation model. In implementing the model across all Country Operations, Orange was able to focus more effectively on delivering propositions to meet distinct customer segment.
• Defined the business rationale and plan for re-branding operations in Egypt and Belgium. These were required to convince minority shareholders that the benefits from using the Orange brand would outweigh the proposed.
• Led War-Game exercises to understand the impact from new competitors and technology launches. Defined the objectives and methodology, managed the workshops and participants, and ensured that results were clearly.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managed the annual Strategic Planning process for the consumer mobile division. This involved developing the Group’s guidelines on key topics, supporting Country operations to develop their plans, and then evaluating.
• Led a range of varied strategy projects aimed at improving the management of Country operations. These included a project to reduce reporting layers and optimise spans of control, the development of tools to provide.
• Defined Orange’s strategy for launching mobile data, as Orange’s core business evolved from voice calls and messaging. The pricing strategy for mobile data was critical in this work, and the adopted approach delivered.
• Steering Committee member of industry partnerships to ensure new products and services could be used by all customers; including the standards which enabled mobile phones to pay for goods using contactless technology..

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 2.1

Family Business Continuity Program

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