Alex King

Experience

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  AIESEC

  Sept 2005 - Aug 2006

  Vice-President of Business Development

  AIESEC is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes cultural understanding through International work placements. In this role I led a team of six to facilitate work placements between AIESEC members and businesses in and around Cardiff.

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  Thales

  Sept 2007 - Mar 2010

  Assistant Programme Manager for the Eurofighter and Chinook Programme. Responsible for Earned Value Management, Risk Management and Scheduling. Graduate Programme Manager for the Eurofighter Programme. Entry level Graduate role on a Programme developing mission planning and debriefing capability for the Eurofighters on Quick Reaction Alert at RAF Coningsby.

  • Assistant Programme Manager

    Oct 2009 - Mar 2010

  • Graduate Programme Manager

    Sept 2007 - Oct 2009
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  Aquila Air Traffic Management Services

  Mar 2010 - Oct 2010

  Business Capture

  Working on the £1.3bn bid called Project MARSHALL (formerly JMATS) bid to provide safe, reliable and efficient Air Traffic Management solutions. Responsible for work package management, bid planning and analysis tasks.

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  Thales

  Nov 2010 - Jan 2011

  Project Manager

  Secondment to work on improving working capital, liquidity and cash flow during the economic recession and end of year results for 2010.

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  Aquila Air Traffic Management Services

  Feb 2011 - Apr 2012

  Price to Win Analyst

  Seconded from Thales to AQUILA to run Price to Win for the ~£1.3bn bid called Project MARSHALL (formerly JMATS). MARSHALL provides safe, reliable and efficient Air Traffic Management solutions to the Ministry of Defence. Our bid was successful and is the second largest contract Thales UK have won.

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  Thales

  Apr 2012 - Aug 2013

  Price to Win Analyst

  Provided Price to Win for major bids in multiple sectors. Innovated the company process for Price to Win which often required estimating entirely bespoke projects & services with no market benchmarks. Gathered and analysed Competitive Intelligence into a central repository to further improve our future Price to Win accuracy.

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  Amplio Services

  Aug 2013 - now

  Director

  Offering Price to Win as a Service. I lead a team of Subject Matter Experts to produce Price to Win analysis that is proven to help win major deals. We also offer tools, training, data, coaching and mentoring for companies wishing to develop their own internal Price to Win capability. We also work customer side providing cost forecasting for major projects and securing business case approval and funding.