Experienced Product Manager skilled in team and stakeholder coordination and leadership. Builds rapport and constructive relationships to achieve project objectives. Engages cross-functional teams to achieve product function and performance improvements within deadlines.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Owner
Cake Aide (www.cakeaide.com)
Hertfordshire
11.2022 - Current
Developed Cake Aide, a mobile app to help small cake business owners run their companies in a timely and cost-effective manner
Conducted market research, focus groups, and studied competitors to target customer pain points and improvement opportunities
Documented business requirements as user stories and designed functional prototypes to lay out features of the app and streamline the user journey
Worked closely with off-shore UI/UX and development teams to build the MVP, test, document feedback, design and build the final product based on user feedback
Designed App store screenshots, ASO and managed launch of the app on iOS and Google app stores
Worked with marketing teams for content management and to optimize the conversion rate (CRO)
Maintaining Cake Aide on app stores, running marketing campaigns and resolving user issues.
Senior Product Manager (Contract)
Sainsburys' Ltd
08.2022 - 11.2022
Managed a large team of sixteen developers and testers to support Kronos Resource Management tool for both retail and logistics sites.
Created and maintained the product backlog (on Azure DevOps) and the roadmap (using Roadmunk), delivering against business goals and OKRs.
Facilitated scrum ceremonies including daily scrum, backlog refinement, sprint planning, 3-Amigos, review and retrospective.
Facilitated discovery sessions to understand site managers' requirements, identify options and agree solutions
Tracked issues logged in ServiceNow and ensured that issues were resolved within agreed SLAs.
Achievements
Consolidated the Argos Workforce management tool into Kronos, saving the organization over £1m in annual fees.
Reduced development costs by 20% by merging related products on the team backlog and roadmap.
Reduced issues logged by 40% by running Kronos training sessions and updating support documentation.
Product Manager (Contract)
Warner Bros Discovery
02.2022 - 08.2022
Managed agile design (UX/UI) and engineering teams to develop new features and improve existing ones on the CN international website and the CMS
Managed the product backlog, ensuring that the user stories were complete and prioritized and future proofing each story to ensure that there were no blockers during sprint
Continuously tracked key metrics against business goals; using data analysis to validate the success of new product/features on the CN International website
Consistently communicated the product vision and goals and product roadmap to ensure that the team was focused on the problem being solved and that the right product and value was delivered.
Product Manager (Contract)
Ieso Digital Health
01.2021 - 07.2021
Defined and managed the roadmap and the end-to end user journey; driving products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment
Working with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, UI/UX, engineering, finance, and therapists
Translated features into user stories within the design and engineering backlogs while managing, ranking, and prioritizing both backlogs to reflect stakeholder’s requirements including requirements for the Chatbot and AI model
Defining and executing the go-to-market plan, ensuring that everything required for a successful release is in place
Developing and maintaining appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.
Product Manager (Contract)
Tesco
01.2019 - 11.2019
Provided key resource in implementing the private cloud project and consistently managed all strategic initiatives supporting existing web services, KPIs and ensured optimization of the lifecycle of the entire cloud product range, recording major wins in go-to-market executions
Maintained and managed the product backlog and implemented strategies to consistently track product KPIs, prioritized product features/functionalities based on the Highest Value Initiatives
Regular colleague engagement to evangelize and market the cloud solution
Facilitated various product team meetings, competitive analysis meetings and customer onboarding sessions involving key departments (marketing, admin, and technical), leading to increased customer engagement and acceptance/adoption
Worked closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve customer/ stakeholder engagement and improve the customer journey.
Senior Business Analyst/ Product Manager (Contract)
Sony PlayStation
01.2017 - 07.2018
Led a cross functional Agile (SAFe) team and adopted a complex, big data focused strategy to successfully plan and manage a Partner Management Database project, building a partner database for B2B and B2C engagement to serve as a single information source for partner data
Managed E2E processes, ensuring timely product delivery and worked closely with a cross-functional team to define the roadmap with a core focus to align business and customer driven data
Leveraged a portfolio of skills and utilized best fit methodologies to conduct gap/need analysis, identifying and aligning user perspectives with end-product vision resulting in 15% improved product visibility & increased business value.
Education
Master of Science - Resource Management
King's College London
London
09.2006 - 08.2007
Skills
Agile and scrum methodologies
BI tools proficiency
Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint
Stakeholder Management
Requirement Elicitation and Gathering
Great Communication Skills
SQL, Python and Networking
Prototyping and Wireframing
Training and Mentoring
End-to-End- Product Lifecycle
Customer Experience Improvement
User Journey & Experience Improvement
Accomplishments
Warner Bros Discovery – Managed the development of a user interaction feature which increased average time on the Cartoon Network website by 32%.
Ieso Digital Health- Delivered a fully functional product in less than 6 months despite the decision to pivot the product approach based on the output of early and continuous market research.
Tesco –Championed an Agile way of working and led Scrum training sessions which translated in a 15% reduced turnaround time. Created and managed the go-to-market strategy, successfully aligning an effective product roadmap into a manageable product backlog while utilizing data intelligence from successes and pain points to implement improvements which resulted in a 7% increase of the Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR).
BBC- Delivered several Information security products across the BBC in the required timeframe to protect sensitive data. Also tracked and managed proofs of concepts, reporting where a proof of concept did not meet the baseline OKRs and recommended a different approach.
Relevant Industry Experience
Retail
Media
Digital Health
Travel
E-commerce
Education
Legal
Insurance
Banking
Previous Roles
Various Other Business Analyst roles - Range of clients from March 2008 - December 2016
Timeline
Product Owner
Cake Aide (www.cakeaide.com)
11.2022 - Current
Senior Product Manager (Contract)
Sainsburys' Ltd
08.2022 - 11.2022
Product Manager (Contract)
Warner Bros Discovery
02.2022 - 08.2022
Product Manager (Contract)
Ieso Digital Health
01.2021 - 07.2021
Product Manager (Contract)
Tesco
01.2019 - 11.2019
Senior Business Analyst/ Product Manager (Contract)
Educatrice spécialisée at Aide Educative de Cornouaille, DRE, CDAS de Quimper, Action Enfance, Les Marmousets, l'ATEEducatrice spécialisée at Aide Educative de Cornouaille, DRE, CDAS de Quimper, Action Enfance, Les Marmousets, l'ATE