Josephine Hobbs

• Managing Director’s administration: Monthly report to parent company inc. financial overview of all ongoing projects. Company financial forecast for inclusion into monthly Commercial report. • Project & proposal support. • Project cost control. • Recruitment. • Marketing responsibilities: company website, development of content and formatting of materials. In charge of all company’s document templates, project references... • CRM and ERP migration: testing, processes and manual write-up.

Managed 2 global product launches into the European, Asia Pacific and Latin American markets with specific responsibility for the development of the business case, product specification, product marketing and pricing strategy.

Prepared technical responses and designed optical network architecture in reply to tenders and presented the final proposal to customers. Following wins, refined and implemented solutions with customers. Assigned to a French joint venture for 14-months.

Investigated new market opportunities for North American video access multiplexer. Conducted extensive market research and competitive analysis, and demonstrated the product at the largest trade show in Europe. Became the European product expert leading to the expansion of the role to encompass technical support to two customer trials of the product and a subsequent contract win

B.Eng. in Mech. Eng. with Business Management & European Studies Including 1 year Erasmus exchange at Lintech University, Linköping, Sweden