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Glasgow, Scotland, GB

Development Director - Focused on helping the business develop and to drive growth. Development of the management team. Develop and implement marketing strategy.

Edinburgh, GB

Working with Heads of School and academic leads to conduct a review of undergraduate and post graduate degree programmes. The objective was to identify under performing programmes which should be discontinued and to identify new degree programmes which could be introduced. To develop the strategy for online learning at scale for Heriot Watt.Developed value.

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

Develop a sustainable growth strategy to increase online degree students from 2,500 to 10,000.Identify key initiatives and projects to be implemented to enable Schools and Colleges to achieve growth targets. Develop strategy for online learning at scale informed by market insight. Identify new programmes, develop market proposition and launch plan.

Glasgow, Strathclyde, GB

Established sales and marketing processesDefined the core proposition Increased the pipeline by 42%.Implemented client development planning process

Glasgow, Strathclyde, GB

To drive growth in university income through increasing UK and International student numbers and commercial public and private sector partnerships.

Glasgow, Glasgow City, GB

Responsibility for growing foreign direct Investment from global markets and increasing international trade of Scottish businesses. Key markets include USA, Asia & EMEA. Remit also covers Product Management, Digital Channels, and Talent Scotland.

Head of marketing practice within a management consultancy.Over the last 2 years I have grown the marketing practice by 23% through developing and delivering new business with blue chip clients in the private and public sectors. - Increased broadband coverage in Scotland from 53% to 93% in 9 months for Scottish Executive through the development and launch.

Glasgow, Scotland, GB

- Delivery of the UK’s first dynamic e-billing solution for a utility- Team of 12 managing technology, operations and marketing reporting to MD- £15m turnover in less than 2 years. (Energy)- Strategic partnerships with MSN and the Royal Bank of Scotland- Implementation of Multi-media contact centre to deliver one point of contact- Led cross divisional team.

Glasgow, Scotland, GB

Responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to exploit the opportunities of market deregulation while protecting the existing high value customer base. I delivered the highest number of new customers and the industries best retention rates.- Development and implementation of Customer Relationship Management strategy- Spear headed customer.