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Cambridge, Gb

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Lead an integrated project team including colleagues from production, engineering, planning, scheduling, logistics, supply chain and manufacturing to deliver the day-to-day activities of a three-bay aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul hangar.• Reprofiled and re-baselined the modification programme resulting in a reduction of the planned duration by 30%.• Delivered on-time to all programme milestones.• Implemented a revised hangar shift pattern that maximises the return on the hangar asset.• Accountable for the safety, quality, cost and delivery of all hangar activities (~90 people, >£10m annual revenue).• Lead delivery of two strategically important projects: completing a complex modification programme on four aircraft and managing the storage, sale and return to service of fifteen aircraft.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

As a member of the UK Aerospace Operations Senior Leadership Team, led the delivery of all aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul activity on-site at Marshall Aerospace. • Responsible for financial control and governance of all aircraft activity cross 14 aircraft fleets. • As the commercial subject matter expert, supported the Operations Director in decision making to drive optimised financial performance, under-pinned by data analysis. • Implemented a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (IFS Apps 10), including designing and leading a bespoke training programme for >350 people across two international locations.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsible for all estimating activity across Marshall Aerospace, Marshall Land Systems, and Marshall Advanced Composites, reporting to the group Commercial Director. • Led the transformation of the Estimating function, aligning estimating capability with current and future business needs. • Benchmarked existing estimating activity against industry best practice, then filled identified gaps in methods, tools, knowledge, and experience to improve performance.• Enabled improved board-level decision making through a revised, standardised approach to delivering estimates.• Supported the Commercial Director with the turn-around of high-profile projects• Delivered margin and schedule improvements through a continuous improvement activity

Boscombe Down

Responsible for all divisional bid delivery, reporting to the divisional Business Development Director.• Delivered >£100m of winning bids alongside bid consistency through simplified bidding policy, process and procedures, under-pinned by visual management.• Led a multi-disciplinary bid team (~30 people) across two sites.• Established a multi-disciplinary bidding enterprise made-up of bid managers, solution architects, commercial managers and finance managers in a new dedicated facility, delivering improved bid quality.• Played a leading role in a QinetiQ wide bid and project management transformation programme by developing and sharing industry best practise across the organisation.

Boscombe Down

Led and managed change programme to improve the route to contract (bidding) with divisional strategic client.Led implementation of Lean cells and processes: control cell, allocation cell & bidding cells (15 people) covering bidding activities for largest strategic client.Responsible for stakeholder management; including briefing and reporting to executive stakeholders.Delivered a reduction in elapsed time from need to on-contract developed plans for further reduction.Developed and implemented bidding policy, process and procedures including revised governance regime and associated delegated authority.Managed development of standards, templates and solutions library (estimation database, parametric and comparative methods) to support rapid turnaround of repeat business.Represented Division at the organisation level improvement steering board reporting to company change lead:

Boscombe Down

Deliver bids to international clients: Support business development colleagues during the opportunity definition phase, in tight timescales delivering: high quality material (documents & presentations), direction of marketing video to support large international opportunity working with consortium partners. Manage bid activities to deliver high quality proposals to international clients, managing a team of colleagues, within internal and external governance processes.The objective of this role is to extend management experience in a new area and consolidate wider business acumen gained from previous roles.

Boscombe Down

As part of QinetiQ’s talent management strategy, I have been selected to work with the Air Division Leadership & Senior Management Teams. This has required me to lead and coordinate a range of change initiatives, delivering division wide impact. In the process, I have gained extensive knowledge of the wider business, divisional strategy and business plans. The focus of this role has been supporting the Operations Director during organisational transformation.

Farnborough

Leading and working in multi-disciplinary teams within a research and development environment, I have successfully delivered projects to a wide range of clients including aircraft manufacturers, the Ministry Of Defence, the Technology Strategy Board and primary defence contractors. I have successfully demonstrated an ability to plan and execute projects, managing a multi-disciplinary team across a number of geographical locations. The technical focus of this role was Multi-disciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) and Aeroelastics.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: Community Action

Postgraduate Certificate, Management