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United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Collaborating and developing effective working relationships with stakeholders and project team members to inspire, support, and facilitate the timely delivery of project within required timeframe.• Monitoring and delivering project milestones, mitigating risks and issues, providing status updates, creating project briefs, related documentation, presentations, and creating project proposal to gather progress updates promptly.• Proactively managed changes in project scope, attending weekly management meetings to report upon milestone progress, and any risk or issue regarding project milestones. • Proactively managed changes in project scope, identifying potential risks, and devising contingency plans.• Communicating with team members via basecamp, emails, and Trello.

Lagos, Nigeria

- Implemented the Agile Scrum framework to carry out projects focusing on the time frame of Sprints.-used Jira software to mange product backlogs, roadmaps and to track bugs with the scrum board. -Worked closely with the UX developer , UI designer, and software testing engineer to execute IT project. -Establishing communication plan on project through stakeholders engagement and confirming shared understanding on requirements .- Creating a detailed plan with team members and establishing a timeline and budget management for project execution.- Ensure deliverables meet acceptance criteria.- Promote teamwork and Team progress ensuring team members are on track with requirements , schedules and deadlines .- Asses risk involved in the planning and execution of projects and proffering solutions with reactive risk response to benefit project file.- Create project documentation and strategy plans for facilitating projects.- Ensure project meets the success criteria and Client is satisfied with performance. - presenting detailed written reports and verbal accounts on project status to clients, management and stakeholders while analyzing problems and providing solutions where necessary.Key Achievements:- implemented strategies to decrease project cost by 40% which yielded $65,000 annual savings. -Successfully met all project deadlines for 2 years in a row.-Implemented a third-party outreach system, increasing the efficiency of coordination by 50%.

-Identified workflow bottlenecks and implemented new and improved processes and policies.-Mapped current business and operational processes and offered recommendations for improvement.- conducted interviews with key stakeholders to collect information on processes and user requirements.-Deployed new software baselines to develop, test and train in pre-production and production environments.-Developed and executed an annual business plan to meet revenue, operational budget, profitability and staff development objectives.- Drove positioning and communication through applauded and implemented strategies, Providing personal and business solutions to suit clients needs.Key Achievements:- Improved overall productivity by 20%- developed and executed sourcing strategies for direct and indirect product categories reducing operational cost by 40%

Lagos

- Worked closely with operations team and sales support staff to deliver unmatched business service-ensured relevant paperwork is processed and received for new accounts .-Manage account relationships, contract negations, sales, pricing, billing, and logistics-Perform market research on competitive landscape and industry trendsKey Achievements -Gained further penetration in the retail sector of the company growing customer base from 40% to 70%-Increased contract secure rate of existing customer base from 65% to 80%

Msc, International Business Management, Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, International Studies And Diplomacy