• Business Processes:
  • improve cost structure and effectiveness of delivery of business-critical processes
  • align processes to changes in requirements with the development of systems or with growth of the business
• Marketing Strategy: 
  • analysis of competition, product, pricing, positioning, communication

o    development/implementation of marketing plans

• Examples:
  • Small family business:  Established new operating procedures, reduced inventory, re-designed packaging to reduce cost of goods, defined product gaps, established new sales channels.
  • US educational products:  Market Research to support entry into UK
  • Automotive:  Developed improved systems and processes to reduce marketing support overhead costs by 60%.
  • Facilitated 20 process-improvement teams to achieve quality award, eg. call centre response rate improved from 56% to 98%, over-age stock reduced from 15% to 9%; 14% increase in on-time customer deliveries. 
  • Developed KPIs for MD to supervisory level for daily monitoring of KPIs for petroleum company
  • Reduced cost of supply chain by managing purchasing procurement of high tech computer company, chemicals company

Jane has a unique experience of companies across the life cycle of a business from start-ups, small family businesses, to global corporates at strategic and operational levels.  Her career began in manufacturing where she was both a Production Supervisor and Materials Manager in a biomedical and computer companies.  After pursuing an MBA at Harvard, she worked in larger corporations and in consultancy.  She has helped corporate clients (eg. IBM, Ford, AXA) in addition to small businesses, increase productivity, reduce costs, improve quality and customer satisfaction.  Jane has worked for many years in the USA, including various sales/marketing/strategy roles with Xerox, as well working across Europe as a management consultant.  She retains strong links with the USA.

Delivered seminar on Marketing in the Recession for Nottinghamshire Business Links.

·         M.B.A., Harvard University Graduate School of Business Management

·         M. A., History,  Brandeis University, Crown Fellow

·         B.A. summa cum laude, History, Tufts University

·         General Course, Economic History, London School of Economics

Dual national UK/USA.  Willing to take on US assignments

Jane has strong interests in the educational market.  She maintains a stake in a family business in the USA in educational interactive digital media.  She is also owner of the Lammas School in Sutton in Ashfield, an independent co-educational school.