Amersham, England, United Kingdom
Founder of KIDDYKIND, a conscious circular platform. We are on a mission to make conscious shopping for babies and kids more convenient by bringing together organic, natural, ethical and sustainable baby and kids brands all in one place. We work with so many award-winning, planet-friendly small and parent-led businesses paving the way in sustainability and low-tox living. We currently have over 300 products ranging from clothing, footwear, skincare and wellness to toys, activities, furniture, educational resources and montessori essentials. Our RE-KIND initiative is our promise to help re-purpose your kind purchases. If you no longer have a use for your KIDDYKIND purchase you can send it back to us and we will help you either sell it, donate it or find a way for it to be re-used. Co-founder of mark.t Ladbroke Grove, a food market offering 5 different cuisines, celebrating the diversity of London. [Opening soon] Previous experience of 11 years as a Business Analyst & Project Manager helping start-ups and corporates launch platforms to market.
Food hall in Ladbroke Grove, London. Championing independent street food traders and celebrating diverse flavours from around the world.
KIDDYKIND is a curated marketplace making conscious shopping for babies and children simpler, smarter and more accessible. We bring together award-winning, organic, natural, ethical and sustainable brands; most of them parent-founded, purpose-led and built to solve a problem they couldn’t ignore. Our mission? To change the way we shop for children. Because raising the next generation shouldn’t mean compromising their health or their future. We carefully select innovative brands that prioritise transparency, low-tox materials, ethical production and thoughtful design. Every product on KIDDYKIND is chosen with intention, for children, for families and for the planet. Today, we host 50+ planet-friendly brands and over 1000 consciously created products across clothing, footwear, skincare, toys, furniture and more. KIDDYKIND exists to prove that sustainable choices can be convenient, beautiful and commercially viable — not niche. Shop: www.kiddykind.com Safer. Cleaner. Kinder.
Working on multiple projects simultaneously. Responsibilities include: • Creating a detailed project plan and ensuring this is adhered to meet project deadlines • Creating project scope and project initiation documentation • Mapping ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ business processes • Contributing to process redesign in order to improve organisational efficiency • Working closely with the client to understand and document the application requirements • Presenting the requirements back to stakeholders during organised review workshops • Working with key stakeholders to achieve scope, requirement and budget sign off • Acting as the main point of contact between the client and the offshore development team • Providing mock up screen designs and helping the development team during the design phase of the project • Organising and running workshops to review the development and progress of the Proof of Concept • Ensuring the development team are carrying out the development in accordance to the specified requirements • Carrying out User Acceptance Testing with, and on behalf of the client • Ensuring system delivery was achieved based on the scheduled deadline and to the expected standards and providing client assistance during the go-live process • Managing and ensuring delivery of post project change requests, and providing support and maintenance assistance • Aiding clients to provide support for their employees to adapt to the technological and cultural change • Holding organised workshops in order to understand and document the changes that needed to be made to the existing specifications, and highlighting potential risks • Supporting the system go-live and continued maintenance support • Managing all project issues and change requests • Updating documentation including the user manuals based on changes in process • Managing and maintaining the client relationship/ account
Working on multiple projects simultaneously. Responsibilities include: • Undertake research and create development documents • Managing and documenting the Sales and Marketing and PR strategies and channel • Producing a sales plan report • Researching, identifying and analysing competitor products in the same market sectors • Producing content for marketing material • Creating Sales, Implementation, Project Updates and Testing Presentations • Undertaking and documenting and regularly updating the SWOT analysis • Developing and managing the product roadmap • Defining new product requirements and functionality • Identifying product gaps for continued product improvement • Co-ordinating between the offshore development team to ensure the requirements are delivered to standard • Testing all features and new functionality implemented, and providing feedback of any bugs or errors • Organising product brainstorming sessions regarding functionality and marketing • Organising multiple system demonstrations to build product awareness
Worked on multiple projects simultaneously. Responsibilities included: • Providing daily support of core PMO processes including tracking of milestones, actions and deliverables, arranging meetings and taking minutes, and providing project assurance to ensure quality of project documentation • Developing, managing and maintaining working and client relationships/ account • Managing stakeholder expectations and assisting in the preparation of stakeholder and business communication • Creating a project scope and project initiation documentation • Creating a project plan, organising the project into different phases beginning with a Proof of Concept • Understanding the existing client applications and documenting the ‘As Is’ platform specifications • Understanding clients requirments, gathering requirements and management and prioritisation of requirements to meet business demands • Mapping ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ business processes • Contributing to process redesign in order to improve organisational efficiency • Development of a business requirements specification and documentation • Reviewing and signing off the requirements with Senior Management and stakeholders • Aiding the development team during the design phase of the project • Acting as the main point of contact on the project, co-ordinating between the clients and onshore or offshore development teams • Monitoring project progress against changes to project requirements as the project develops • Ensuring the project plan is adhered to, to meet project deadlines, including documentation and implementation deadlines • Providing testing documentation including test strategies, test scripts, storyboards and testing scenarios • Undertaking System Testing and arranging System Testing sessions • Preparing, managing and running User Training Workshops • Managing all project issues and change requests • Supporting the system go-live and continued maintenance support