Store Manager Candidate with Analytics & Leadership Expertise

Paul G. Trott

OBJECTIVE

To have the opportunity to make the best of my skillset and contribute to organizational growth.

CORE SKILLS

Technical Proficiency: Advanced Excel (Formulas /bespoke dashboards), Power BI, QlikView, Google Analytics.

Strategic Management (Analytics): Project Lead & Staff Allocation, Cost & Variance Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Trend Tracking, ROI. Affective Decision Making.

Strategic Project Management: PRINCE2, Agile, MS Project, MS Visio, Multitasking, RAID & WBS.

EDUCATION

PG Dip Business Management Selkirk College, BC (2025)

BA (Hons) Business The University of Northampton, England (2009)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DEFRA & EA Strategic Manager (Contract) Aug 2021 – Aug 2023 London, England

Overseeing staff division and workflows while for automating analysis reporting to ensure 100% compliance and financial visibility.

Lead team allocation & scheduling through, MS Excel, MS Project & Visio workflows.

Stakeholder management/decision-making - delivering weekly analytical insights via SharePoint.

Enhanced financial visibility by producing Power BI asset reports & budget narratives.

Sodexo Strategic Manager (Contractor) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Milton Keynes, England

Developed financial models to measure KPIs against revenue & sales performance.

Improved stakeholder visibility by creating dynamic Power BI & MS Excel dashboards.

Strategic Project Lead in delivering automated, data-driven solutions and scalable visual insights to optimize operational efficiency.

NATO Strategic Project Manager (Contractor) Aug 2019 – Jan 2020 Brussels, Belgium

Project Lead, executing end-to-end procurement and MS Project-driven risk management to ensure strict budget and schedule compliance.

Executed bulk procurement projects by developing comprehensive plans from SOW & BOM (MS Project).

Managed project budgets & mitigated financial risks by monitoring slipping baselines.

Santander (Contractor) Strategic Manager Aug 2017 – June 2018 Milton Keynes, England

Improved compliance efficiency by scripting Excel VB formulas to automate data archiving.

Monitored SLA performance & variance analysis using MS Project, MS Excel & RAID logs.

Served as Stakeholder Project Lead, automating banking compliance to ensure strict SLA, KPI performance and variance control.

Santander (ISBAN) Strategic Project Manager (Contractor) Oct 2016 – Feb 2017 Milton Keynes, England

Utilized advanced Excel modelling to support executive management decision-making.

Project Lead directing staff in standardizing process flows via Visio and utilized advanced Excel modeling to drive executive-level decision-making and project output consistency.

Standardized project outputs & process flows using MS Project & Visio.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Strategic Project Manager Sep 2013 – Sept 2016 Milton Keynes, England

Reconciled government balance sheets & generated quarterly progress reports.

Defined operational patterns by designing data mapping & process flow designs.

Stakeholder management, working alongside Stakeholders, Foreign Ministers, and Politicians.

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