Niki Holroyde

Experience

• Responsible for individual project budgets over £2m
• Led teams building products from stage 0 to 1
• Created tangible executable roadmaps
• Managed and unified stakeholders and reporting to investors
• Translated unstructured work requests into actionable user stories, using Jira and Github
• Worked with product team to prioritise product backlog according to business value and ROI to expedite project completion
• Rapidly established agile product design methodology principles and set up ways of working with clients
• Led brainstorming sessions for generation of new product ideas

Key achievements

• Overhauling legacy pensions and benefits platform including data migration and complete product redesign
• Led team in creating day 0 brand design, seed funding demo, product design and build, plus crypto trading platform integration
• Developed a complex data analysis tool for Clearwater. Disseminating a complex set of requirements into tangible feature releases
• Worked with institutional banks e.g Commerzbank to evolve their trading platforms

Key achievements

● Led team in creating a commodities trading platform for Commerzbank

● Designed and built a mobile specific FX trading application

Experience

• Produced Prince2 project governance documentation incl; functional specification, staged schedule, risk log
• Negotiated change request and project extensions with clients
• Senior stakeholder engagement and reporting
• Co-ordinated and led relationships between client, agency and the development partner teams
• Managed and acquired resource to efficiently staff business

Key acheivements

• Delivered a £1 million+ e-commerce platform for Heineken
• Managed team of producers to build an ecrm platform for Danone
• Managed delivery for a new client AkzoNobel helping to structure the business and establish good working processes. Grew a programme of work to 30+ multi media workstreams

Experience

• Senior team member heavily involved in pitching for and winning new business
• Ensured work was financially viable and sustainable across the business
• Oversaw a team of producers and managed their career development
• Point of escalation and responsible for client conflict resolution
• Implemented new ways of working with clients (Agile) and restructured rate cards
• Worked with the accounts team to forecast and plan activity on an annual and quarterly basis
• Managed resourcing across the studio included engaging specialist production partners
• Helped to implement WPP takeover

Achievements

• Led pitch winning teams across diverse client portfolio including BBC, Department of Health, Microsoft, Deutsche Bank
• Delivered award winning, new to market suite of applications for Deutsche Bank (Autobahn). I was involved throughout project lifecycle from pitch through to launch

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