Summary
Sara Christie has been working in the Digital industry for over 20 years, across solutions, commercial and non-profit sectors. Her background is in Web Development and from there she moved into Project and Programme Management which has given her the ability to see the full spectrum of business needs and enables her to work with companies to ensure the best solution is found.. Skilled at delivering projects, product development, & facilitating operational change, she is PRINCE 2 qualified and has a wealth of experience of working within AGILE environments.
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Achievements
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Established senior team manager role within innovative software solutions company. Responsible for financial reporting and revenue generation for active projects, acting as a key customer contact for high profile customer accounts and working with customers to identify areas for maximising return on their budget. Introduced processes & reporting tools within company to give controls, and financial and operational efficiencies, at all stages of the business and project/product cycle.
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Introduction of Project Management team, and methodologies, into growing digital agency – using agile techniques as appropriate to improve efficiency of project delivery and quality of customer service. Part of team managing development of a middleware product for cinemas, integrating with multiple POS and third party APIs, to ensure efficient turnaround of website delivery. Delivered multiple new websites, including launches for some of the largest cinema chains in the U.S.A and Europe.
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Launch of leading new digital platform in the charity sector, ranked top in Third Sector’s Web Check, delivering a new online brand and user focussed website for major UK charity with the Content Management System capable of supporting up to 400 partner sites. Digital lead in team driving creation of new digital strategy for organisation. Delivered during a time of major organisational change and including the recruitment of a new Digital Delivery team.
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Replacement of search technology for busiest online classified search facility in UK resulting in savings of circa £750k per annum. Delivered complex technical project for Search Product team, within Prince 2 based framework, to agreed budget and within fixed time constraints.
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Management of programme of projects to introduce document scanning applications, business processes and systems into largest organically growing retailer in UK; worth estimated £12 million per annum in prevented fraud loss.
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Created online shop for contract phones sales integrated with existing POS system; worked with mixed development teams to provide the optimum solution and produced online media campaigns to support marketing strategy.
Who we’ve worked with
Vidatec, Webedia, Alzheimer’s Society, Standard Life, Age UK, De Beers Diamond Group, Trader Media Group, Com Tech IT Support Stirling, Cool Gourmet, Phones 4u
