I am a management consultant working across both the public and private sectors, specialising in organisational design, workforce planning and change. I have experience working within the insurance, financial services, manufacturing and automotive industries, as well as working within health care agencies, local government and higher education professionals. My strengths lie in my ability to think laterally and logically to problem solving and in my ability to effectively run and manage projects.

Management Consultant @ Projects and experience: - Succession and workforce planning at Glasgow Caledonian University; ensuring that GCU had the right workforce in place to deliver their desired plan - Designed and developed an enterprise operating model for an organisation in the water industry; including defining the architecture layers and writing the implementation delivery roadmap and plan - Organisational design at a local council, including the centralisation of their L&D function - Designed and delivered an organisational development programme for an NHS trust; reflecting a values-based approach and improving the care and performance of the trust - Organisational design and pay and grading review for an organisation in the energy industry; carrying out a deep dive organisation assessment, alongside recommendations for change - Carried out assessments for an organisation in the energy industry in order to raise the capability of their finance function, ensuring they meet current and future business needs - Data analysis and requirements gathering for a large global assessments project - Reward benchmarking, job slotting and designing pay strategies for an automotive client - Co-facilitating client trainings and workshops - Development of a change readiness tool for Local Authorities From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Executive Assistant & Business Development Analyst to the ITS UKI Sales Director @ Working in IBM's Integrated Techonology Services (ITS) division focussing on how the sales force can more effectively and proactively respond to customer needs. Working as an Executive Assistant alongside the UK Head of Sales is a strategic role that requires a strong analytical mind, the ability to work under pressure and the confidence in my leadership skills. Key Responsibilities: - - Working alongside the ITS UKI Sales management team to create the 2013/4 strategy - Analysing data to determine key focus areas for the business - Managing the UK Education budget and ensuring all sellers undertake 40 hours of education in 2013 - Part of all management decisions relating to the sales business - Sales Eminence lead - working to raise the knowledge and eminence of the salesforce both internally and externally from the business - Working alongside our HR Partner in order to reduce the current high sales attrition rate - Event Organisation - Involved in re-organisation & structure of the business From January 2013 to October 2013 (10 months) Junior Consultant/ Project Management @ Joining the IBM Graduate Programme as a Consultant has provided me with the opportunity to work on client site from day one. I have had the responsibility of maintaining invoices, funding and forecasting for IBM on several of their contracts with Aviva. The complexity of these contracts and resources has stretched my skills and allowed development and challenges to occur. This has helped in the development of my confidence. I established good and trusting relationships with both Aviva and the IBM team on site. I maintained, recorded and dealt with issues as they arose and made good use of my excellent interpersonal skills. I acted as the main IBM point of contact for the Customer and provided all reporting requirements in a timely and accurate manner. As both the Client and IBM could see my ability to grasp knowledge quickly, I have now been offered the role as a commerical contact for all contract changes between Aviva and IBM. I am currently doing this role on top of my Executive Assistant role. From September 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 4 months) UK Student and Graduate Recruitment Co-ordinator @ Responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with the Careers Services of IBM’s target Universities along with recruiting graduates and students through out the selection process. I was the main face of IBM for all graduate labs hiring, preparing and running all Assessment Centres, improving both my communica-tion and client focus skills. From June 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 2 months) Sales Assistant @ In my role I worked to achieve personal and team targets set by store management which gave me experience in working under pressure. I built up excellent management and communication skills through working with diverse teams and providing an exceptional level of customer service to a diverse customer group. From September 2005 to May 2007 (1 year 9 months)

BA Management (Industrial), Business Management 2:1 @ University of Leeds From 2007 to 2011 A, A, B, Business Studies, Biology, Sociology @ Wycombe High School From 2000 to 2007 Andrea Poore is skilled in: Business Analysis, Team Leadership, Project Management, Teamwork, Stakeholder Management, Management Consulting, Account Management, Project Delivery, Change Management, Business Intelligence, Lotus Notes, Business Strategy, Data Analysis, ITIL, Analysis