Jennifer Sabiston

Experience

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  Self Employed

  Sept 2006 - Nov 2014

  Stage Manager

  Duties include working with approximately 100 school children ages 7-18 years old and their teachers for the duration of a workshop delivery day and performance day. Liaising with theatre technical staff to ensure programme guidelines are adhered to at all times. Issue risk assessments to the teaching staff as required. Ensure the smooth running of the event at the venue by clearly communicating with all children, teachers and theatre staff including front of house. Clear reporting of sales figures to head office at the end of each performance day. Work is not continuous it is on a contract basis for between 4 – 20 apx days per year which fit within FTE holiday entitlement.• Event planning and delivery• Budgeting and financial reporting• Management of temporary teams• Health and safety compliance• Resource scheduling• Operational planning• Marketing communication• Adhering to strict non-movable deadlines• Pro-active problem solving Show less

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  Mountjoy

  Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

  Materials Administrator

  Creating auditing processes to eliminate wastage and unnecessary expenditure; delivery enablement; facilitating communication between business partners.

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  Bell Integration Ltd

  Aug 2012 - Feb 2015

  Sales/ Project Support

  Sales Support:Duties include collating Account Director weekly sales forecasts from Salesforce.com into a rebate forecast; building and maintaining accreditations where appropriate in line with the CTO business plan in order to achieve additional rebate values and hard margin; meet with distributors that partner with Bell Microsystems Ltd in order to maintain the strategic, mutually beneficial relationships and seek to maximise rebate revenues; maintaining company reseller agreements and contracts with vendors; managing rebate payment cycles in line with differing financial year ends across vendors.Achievements:• Developing the company strategic accreditation training programme enabling infrastructure sales and professional consulting capabilities• Document template development and company wide document management• Successful recognition of rebate programmes with a revenue totalling upwards of £500k• Achieved Employee of the Quarter award within the first year of employmentProject Support:PMO Support on customer site at Vodafone Newbury; project rescue via a reporting backlog clean up to enable process improvement and visibility for stakeholders; presentation preparation; financial tracking; creating and releasing of POs; document management; action tracking; information building, extracting and reporting; use of Sharepoint.Business Support:Company wide process improvement, cutting time burnt and spending; pre-employment screening; travel and accommodation booking; minute taking. Show less

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  Arqiva

  Mar 2015 - Jun 2015

  Project Assistant

  Providing Project Support for Smart Metering ensuring clear and straightforward communications between colleagues and third parties; particularly around deliverables and project closure. Diary management; action tracking; RAID log management; profile creation and use of internal systems; management of third party on boarding and training; data analysis; process improvement; liaising with third party PMO support to ensure smooth project delivery; document version tracking and sign off; support of resource planning, change and deployment; weekly reporting; presentation preparation; project BA support; meeting facilitation. Show less

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  BAE Systems

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2022

  Project management of customer facing IT projects; bid creation; baseline tracking; team integration; resource planning; budget management & complex finance reporting; documentation creation & tracking; daily customer stand ups; risk & opportunity discovery & management; conflict resolution; uplifted responsibility from APM to PM while in post Duties include those within previous role. Additionally responsible for performance of 2 contractor resources, 2 permanent team members & 1 PM Apprentice placement. CV review, interview & selection for permanent team members. Liaising with stakeholders to ensure the team output is efficient & fit for purpose. Lead role also includes support across a portfolio of projects within the department; best practice project management & reporting guidance to the wider team Programme support on a large, complex programme. Risk & opportunity management including schedule risk analysis, schedule creation and maintenance in MSP, critical path analysis, earned value management, resource/ forward load profiling, action tracking, task analysis metrics development. Use of internal tools for finance tracking and monthly reporting activities. Support of senior leadership meetings. Facilitation of business improvement activities. Programme Manager support across Estates and Facilities on 200 plus live projects; Programme and project level scheduling; programme reporting; risk management; KPI tracking; programme finance data mining; tier review support; cross departmental relationship building; use of internal data systems. Departmental implementation of Workspace (SharePoint). Company wide duties include delivery of internal HR systems training to line managers and Graduate Scheme candidate assessment.

  • Assiatant Project Manager Digital Services

    Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Lead Project Controller Product & Training Services

    May 2019 - Mar 2021

  • Project Controller Product & Training Services

    May 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Project Controller Base Services

    Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
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  Lockheed Martin

  Jun 2022 - now

  Subcontact Programme Manager

  Management & leadership of major subcontract partners & their performance; negotiations & proposal evaluations; SoW development; risk & opportunity management; action tracking & problem solving & conflict resolution; stakeholder management; use of tools: Confluence, Jira, Windchill, SAP, MSP