Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Results-driven PMP-certified manager with over five years of experience in entrepreneurship, business development, project management, and research funding. Proven track record of managing complex funding programmes, driving knowledge exchange, and building strategic partnerships across academic and industry environments. Skilled in business case writing, funder reporting, stakeholder engagement, and KPI management. A strategic thinker with strong communication, leadership, and analytical skills, delivering impactful results.
Studying Master's Degree at Leeds University Business School.
• Collaborated with senior managers, procurement team, and finance team to define the project's objectives and goals. • Developed 10 construction and agricultural projects’ budgets and schedule plans besides the contingency plans. • Monitored projects’ plans to analyse the associated risks critically and reported the projects' progress. • Guided the project team on project control processes and performed post-project analysis to establish lessons learned.
• Collaborated in providing training 21 startups for pitching; thus, the startups won 50K Euro as a fund from the Netherlands Embassy in Sudan. • Provided one-to-one coaching and mentorship to 6 startups in the Hub’s incubation program, including designing growth strategies and conducting market research to identify trends and opportunities for the startups. • Assisted in building 4 business partnerships with potential investors through negotiations and helped 6 startups secure funding from reputable companies and NGOs. • Created and evolved user acquisition and engagement dashboards for the startups and founders through the incubation period and monitored startups’ business operations. • Worked closely with founders to set up and analyse experiments relating to marketing campaigns and product/feature usage trends. • Initiated extra activities and management interventions wherever gaps in the incubation programme were identified.
• Gathered market insights and conducted competitive analysis to recognise customer needs and trends. • Collaborated with engineers, designers, and marketers to create new products and services. • Prepared the annual business plan for 2020 and succeeded in acquiring 5,000 customers by the second quarter of the same year.