Alex Scott
Product Management | Cross-functional Leadership | Data & Analytics | Business & Tech | Startup Mentor
Bio
Here’s what I can help you with: Product leadership: generating new ideas, finding opportunities to help a scaling business, prioritising across teams and keeping cross functional projects on track Hiring a team: how to identify top talent, build scalable interviewing processes and manage performance Remote team building: keep a sense of community when your team is distributed across different countries and time zones Why me: I’m passionate about helping fast growing companies and I’m eager to make an impact. For you, that means I’ll be fully engaged with your problems and want to go deep into your world to help you solve challenges. I have more than 10 years of experience as a tech management consultant and product manager; I’ve solved problems in Banking, Insurance, Oil & Gas, ecommerce and healthcare. For you, that means I’ve built up good pattern recognition and give relevant advice to your market. I’ve got a broad network across Europe and I like making introductions. My former colleagues from Amazon/Deloitte and classmates from engineering/business school are now in leadership positions across big tech, corporate and finance organisations around the world. For you that means you’ll be only one degree separated from a broad range of potential advisors, customers or future employees. I hope that you decide to book a call with me and look forward to helping you grow your company. Talk to you soon! Alex
Expertise
Building a team
Here are some of my relevant achievements: * Recruited and promoted a team of four Senior Product Managers and Business Intelligence Engineers to scale a pan-EU supplier management program, which will generate €4.5bn revenue in 2020 * Interviewed over 400 candidates across 19 Amazon businesses as an interview ‘Bar Raiser’
Product management
Here are some of my relevant achievements: * Designed and launched an automated operations trouble-shooter that generated €8m incremental revenue by reducing account manager effort by 50 hours per week (~10%) * Launched ML-driven profitability management systems that captured €20m incremental profit * Managed the feature backlogs of global products, which automated annual contract negotiations, customer support, marketing campaigns and new SKU creation for >40k Amazon suppliers
Remote work
Here are some of my relevant achievements: * Successfully promoted three Vendor Managers and grew direct reports by 50%, with no regretted attrition, through two annual review cycles * Invented training, reporting and operational processes to scale from 5 to 30 HC in a year * Led a large team of 13 Business Intelligence Engineers, Technical Program Managers and Product Managers to launch a scalable COVID-19 testing solution in 21 regions across Europe, UK and Ireland
Toolkit
Asana
9 years of experienceI was an early adopter of Asana within Amazon and helped spread its adoption throughout the company. I've used to to run idea generation workshops and plan a three read tech roadmap.
Tableau
16 years of experienceI implemented Tableau for clients as a BI consultant. I've also used it to run large scale business at Amazon. I'm generally comfortable with many different visualisation applications including Qlikview, QuickSight and Tableau.
Industries
Cryptocurrency
I work with founders, operators and investors in the Ethereum, Solana ecosystems. I am based in Dubai and operate globally. Read more here: https://alexscott.one/