Freelance Business Consultant Middlewich, Cheshire, UK
Experienced business consultant with specialisms in organisational growth, innovation, change management, momentum and process for smes, social enterprises and charities.

| Rating: | Unrated (New) |
| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £35.29 per hour (ex. VAT) |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £282.35 per day (ex. VAT) |
| Available From: | Now |
| Candidate ID: | 349983 |

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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
Senior Management Professional, skilled in partnership creation, change management and organisational development to deliver both commercial and social benefits.
Core Competencies:
Social Value Creation
Business Development
Income Generation
Business Planning
Feasibility Studies
Risk Management
Corporate Responsibility
Innovative Service Delivery
Partnership Creation
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Process Design/ Implementation
Change Management
Strategic Planning
Policies/ Legislation
Employment History
(Mar 2011 & ongoing)
Director and Founder
A new management consultancy which works primarily with small businesses, social enterprises and charities to support them to increase their efficiency, improve their process, build better partnerships, create new funding streams and deliver social value.
(Jun 2003 to Mar 2011)
Director (National Role, Manchester-based)
Innovative company that helps organizations, create and deliver the maximum social value from all their activities by creating sustainable community benefit from investment, development, procurement and corporate citizenship - Turnover £1 million pa - Employees 16-20
Manage key accounts - Develop strategies and implement promotions and marketing activities to generate additional revenue streams - Consult with clients on public policy and organisational development issues linked to social and community outcomes -Set and manage all budgets (along with 2 Directors)
Established all operational and HR functions including processes and policies and ensured the provision of support and guidance for the full spectrum of issues - accredited to ISO9001, ISO14001 and Investors in People level.
-Worked across the company, charity and non-profit think tank.
-Formulate and develop strategy, business systems and processes achieving £1 million pa from a range of public, private and 3rd sector clients.
-Instigated, managed and developed relationships with cross sectional partners including Morgan Sindall Investments, Waitrose, Enterprise Plc, Local Leadership Centre for Government, Institute of Ethics (Leeds University), Sandwell Borough Council, NHS NW, Children in Need and Groundwork
-Founded the Ethical Leadership Society
-Acted as the an Interim General Manager of Greater Manchester NHS LIFT programme (Local Improvement Finance Trust)
-Designed and implemented corporate responsibility organisational development processes from board level down for a range of Plc clients including Enterprise Plc, Rydon Group, Birse and Graham Construction.
(Nov 1999 to Jun 2003)
Senior Consultant
Accenture (London/Manchester/Hong Kong)Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company (Fortune Global 500) - Turnover $23.3 billion - Employees 200,000+ - Locations 200 in 52 Countries
Managed international teams of up to 20 multi-disciplined professionals across multiple locations - Oversaw projects mainly in the retail sector - Clients included AS Watson (HK), Sainsburys, Virgin, WHS Smith, Eriksson and Argos
Key team member in the design, building and launching of Virgin Wines .com - Managed the website team and designed tools, which generated customer recommendations based on preferences and wine ratings;
Led a multi-location team with a £2+ million budget to redesign and launch the back office operations for ParkNShop Supermarket (part of the AS Watson Group - Hong Kong)
Developed and implemented the customer data mining and marketing system for Sainsbury's Online in order to gain business intelligence for future campaigns
Professional Qualifications
BSc (Hons 2:1) - Psychology (University of York)
CSYS - English (A) and German (A) (Balfron High School)
Higher - English (A), Maths (B), French (A), German (A), Physics (A), Biology (A) and Geography (A) (Balfron High School)
8 Standard Grades (7 ‘A’s & 1 ‘B’) (Balfron High School)
DIRECTORSHIPS & VOLUNTARY ROLES
Non-exec Director, Dallas Matthews, Relationship Marketing Firm, (current)
Shadow Board Director, New Progress Housing Association (current)
Director & Trustee, Changing lives in Cheshire, Charity and Social Enterprise, (current)
Founding Chair, Mid Cheshire Hospitals - Patient, Public Involvement Forum (2004-2005)
Assignment History
(This Candidate has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignments)
- Project Manager Coach: Project Manager Coach
- Have you got what it takes to help entrepreneurs realise their business dreams? Would you like an opportunity to be part of a team supporting entrepreneurs in business? Would you like to join us helping people decide if they have the personality profile to run their own business, decide what business they can run, give them the tools to start and run the business and remove the loneliness of being an entrepreneur?
Categories & Freelance Skills
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Bid Advice (Tender Process)
- Bid Preparation (Tender Process)
- Bid Review (Tender Process)
- Business Development (Business Consulting)
- Business Intelligence (Project Consultancy)
- Business Plan Creation (Business Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Project Consultancy)
- Business Plan Creation (Marketing Consulting)
- Business Planning (Business Consulting)
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Clarity (Project Consultancy)
- Communication All Levels (Project Consultancy)
- Communications Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Company Start-up
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility (Business Consulting)
- Customer Care (Business Consulting)
- Government Procurement (Project Consultancy)
- Leadership (Project Consultancy)
- Marketing Management (Marketing Consulting)
- Mentoring (Project Consultancy)
- Mergers (Charity & Not-for-profit)
- Organisational Development
- Process Change (Project Consultancy)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping
- Product Development (Business Consulting)
- Programme Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Public Sector (Project Consultancy)
- Sales Development (Marketing Consulting)
- Service development (Charity & Not-for-profit)
- SME (Project Consultancy)
- SME Sector
- Tender Process
- Workshop Management (Project Consultancy)

