Contract Delivery and Employment Experience

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• Bidding support – providing bid solutioning, market and employment analysis and bid writing for a national skills provider across multiple employability programmes 
• Organisational Strategy – providing business diagnostic, business strategy and operational programme development for regional training provider
• Business Strategy - led the development of 5-year growth strategy for a Welsh CIC across operational and business development disciplines supporting growth and operational development
• Inclusive Growth – developed Local Enterprise Partnership inclusive growth approach and methodology to support Local Industrial Strategy preparation and future adoption of social inclusion agendas
• Economic Development  – jointly delivered a Local Industrial Strategy development project with lead responsibility for impact driven implementation plan and organisational change strategy
• Local Business Support – jointly delivered business engagement and Growth Hub transition to Local Enterprise Partnership ‘in-house’ delivery supporting development of enhanced private sector engagement strategy
• Research and Bidding Support – specialist economic development research and project support, alongside employability bid support for a national private sector service organisation 
• Bid Leadership – providing Bid Director and bid writing for national environmental services contract opportunity for a local government partnership organisation 
• Programme development and procurement – coordinating specification, development and procurement support of an integrated innovation service programme across regional innovation centres for a Local Authority
• MULTIPLY programme – leading the design and development of a MULTIPLY investment plan and evaluation of phase 1 UKSPF programme applications for a local authority
• Business support landscape analysis  – leading research and development of regional business support requirements for a Local Enterprise Partnership 
• Business support programme development – provided landscape, funding and needs analysis to establish options for ‘tiered’ local business support across foundation sectors and growth-potential business clusters for a local authority
• National service bid support – provided bid tactics, service solution and writing on national business support contract leading to multi-million pound contract win for a Welsh CIC
• Local authority economic development – jointly delivered strategic investment and opportunity review for Levelling Up Fund Round 1 funding providing concluding strategic and tactical recommendations
• Local authority master-planning – provided landscape and policy analysis to support development of an innovative location masterplan, Levelling Up Fund Round 2 application and investment prospectus
• Private sector bidding support  – provided specialist bidding support to secure UKSPF funding and service programme contracts for local SME’s

Business Development 

• Bid direction and bid-writing - securing £30m new contract wins
• Specialist in national, regional and local business support development

Economic Development 

• Development of 7 superfast broadband exploitation projects
• Design of growth-hub, rural, social enterprise & skills support projects

B2B Marketing

• Marketing and management of 40 business support programmes
• Business engagement and lead generation securing over 50% service market penetration

Communications

• Successfully managed Marcomms budgets from £1,000 to £1,000,000
• Led a full-service marketing team of 30 including media, research & CRM

Stakeholder and Partner Management

• Identification of operational partners that secured £9m of new contracts
• Management of national, regional and local stakeholder relationships

Leadership and Management

• Board and senior level management of growth & organisational change 
• Development of projects securing overhead efficiency & new services