Expertise

Strategy grounded in how organisations actually work.

I bring together product, customer, commercial, operational and technology perspectives. The value is not any one discipline in isolation, it is knowing how decisions in one part of the system affect every other part.

Product strategy & portfolios

Vision, roadmaps, proposition choices, prioritisation and portfolio governance across complex products, channels and partnerships.

Customer experience

Journey design informed by behaviour, complaints, analytics, frontline evidence and the operational conditions that create customer friction.

Systems thinking

Finding root causes, understanding demand and redesigning the system rather than treating recurring symptoms.

Commercial performance

Connecting customer improvements to revenue, margin, cost-to-serve, benefits realisation and portfolio economics.

Digital product delivery

Discovery, business cases, backlogs, Agile squads, analytics, experimentation and delivery across web, mobile and enterprise platforms.

Transformation leadership

Securing investment, aligning executives and delivery teams, managing dependencies and maintaining accountability through ambiguity.

Regulated products

Banking, insurance, claims and foreign exchange with risk, compliance, DDO, anti-hawking and operational controls embedded into decisions.

Partnerships

Leading partner-distributed propositions while keeping accountability for the end customer, commercial result and operating model.

Operational redesign

Process, controls, training, escalation and service models designed around the realities of frontline and offshore delivery.

Technology & methods

Tools matter when they enable better decisions and simpler work.

ServiceNowAdobe AnalyticsJiraAgile product deliveryVanguard systems thinkingJourney mappingBenefits modellingBusiness casesData-led prioritisationService designShopifyNeto / Maropost

I do not define myself by a software stack. My strength is translating between customer need, operational reality, commercial logic and technical delivery.

Professional viewpoint

“A customer problem is rarely owned by the team where the symptom appears. The work is to understand the whole system, then make the right outcome easier to deliver.”

Looking for this combination?

I am open to conversations where product, customer and transformation leadership must work as one.

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