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Freelancing for a range of organisations to help clients progress new strategic ideas and support transformational change.
Sonali Samani
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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Working as an independent consultant to support clients achieve ambitious strategic change. I work flexibly to ensure stakeholders are engaged, build exciting strategic plans and to support implementation and change management.
Currently working on set up of Activity Planning for a major hospitality organisation including defining central operations vision, analysis of plans and linking to communication planning. Available from January for new opportunities.
Currently working on set up of Activity Planning for a major hospitality organisation including defining central operations vision, analysis of plans and linking to communication planning. Available from January for new opportunities.
Markets
United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
Spanish
Good
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2019 - 2020
freelance
Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant.
Delivered new Central Operations strategy for Bourne Leisure
Hotels and Caravan Parks. This included alignment and
engagement of stakeholders; setting the vision; and preparation of key short term deliverables e.g. 'Activity Planning' (full year operations plan with capacity impact for field teams) (3 months)
• Delivered 5 year strategy for small wellness industry start up - inc workshops and writing of business plan (2 weeks)
Financial Services (7 months) References available upon request
Hotels and Caravan Parks. This included alignment and
engagement of stakeholders; setting the vision; and preparation of key short term deliverables e.g. 'Activity Planning' (full year operations plan with capacity impact for field teams) (3 months)
• Delivered 5 year strategy for small wellness industry start up - inc workshops and writing of business plan (2 weeks)
Financial Services (7 months) References available upon request
Writing, Operations, Workshops, Planning, UP, Business strategy, Employee Engagement, Interim management, Change processes
2015 - 2019
job
Operations Development Manager
Whitbread.
• Wrote new strategy for support functions post Costa-sale. This
included high level target operating model across all functions
• Introduced cost to serve models to Whitbread including agreeing
business case, methodology. Trial demonstrated identification of
12% saving on overheads and 3% P&L
Chief of Staff to Managing Director 12 months
• Designed and implemented new Central Operations function inc
HR consultation, recruitment, governance, and processes. The 15+
team included comms and planning, labour mgmt, systems
support and brand standards
• Set up delivery for new Food & Drink strategy including sourcing
& quality plan, efficiency plan and delivering new Standard
Operating Procedures to drive consistency and quality
• Wrote and mobilised for Whitbread Nutrition Strategy and Healthy Eating plan inc external engagement and innovation
• Supported MD on various projects inc: representing him on
steering boards, aligning stakeholders, design of targeting
operating model and implementation of estate wide change
included high level target operating model across all functions
• Introduced cost to serve models to Whitbread including agreeing
business case, methodology. Trial demonstrated identification of
12% saving on overheads and 3% P&L
Chief of Staff to Managing Director 12 months
• Designed and implemented new Central Operations function inc
HR consultation, recruitment, governance, and processes. The 15+
team included comms and planning, labour mgmt, systems
support and brand standards
• Set up delivery for new Food & Drink strategy including sourcing
& quality plan, efficiency plan and delivering new Standard
Operating Procedures to drive consistency and quality
• Wrote and mobilised for Whitbread Nutrition Strategy and Healthy Eating plan inc external engagement and innovation
• Supported MD on various projects inc: representing him on
steering boards, aligning stakeholders, design of targeting
operating model and implementation of estate wide change
Design, Innovation, Operations, Sourcing, Business Case, Recruitment, Implementation, Support, Development, Oil and Gas, Planning, Processes, UP, Manager
My education
University of Warwick
Bachelors, English Literature
Bachelors, English Literature
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