Katja Meyer

Working alongside the CEO, C-Suite and Chairman to drive strategic organisational change, covering people, process and technology

Double hatted as Product Owner and Scrum Master, leading the delivery of new product features of AxeTrader, a Fixed Income trading system for sell-side and buy-side firms. Leads the Product Community, aiming to build best practice around Product Management in order to make the business scalable and to grow in line with investors' ambitions.

Designed and implemented data privacy and security policies and processes applicable to a tech start-up in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Led customer research and testing to inform the product strategy to achieve product-market fit N.B.: Part-time from 01 - 06/2019

Worked alongside the Chief Digital Officer to introduce new ways of working to enable the business to become more agile, focused on business value, attractive to talent and to drive better outcomes and achieve faster time-to-market

Mettle, Product Manager: Co-created account opening solution for a challenger bank. Focused on product development in collaboration with Fintech partners and stakeholders from sponsor Royal Bank of Bank of Scotland; HSBC, Target Operating Model Lead: Led a transformation project to create a ‘Change the Bank Investments’ function under the COO. Rolled out processes/tools to provide transparency over portfolio costs and benefits to allow the business to align its $1m investment to strategic priorities.

HSBC, Target Operating Model Lead: Worked alongside the CAPCO Client Partner to lead a transformation programme (£6m, 45 FTE) seeking to improve global Portfolio & Programme Management operating model, services, processes and tools for a $3bn portfolio; Royal Bank of Scotland, Target Operating Model Lead: Defined the target operating model and people strategy (recruitment, onboarding, L&D) for the CIO of Williams & Glyn, a new challenger bank (c. 125 FTE, £20m payroll, c. 1000 supplier staff).

Lloyds Banking Group, Technology Strategy Consultant: Led the implementation of an agile project management tool (IBM Rational Team Concert) across the Digital Bank to support the roll-out of an iterative delivery model across a £200m change portfolio. Led a training programme focused on Scrum and RTC referenced above to 500+ colleagues. Supported the development of a MI reporting tool and e-learning content for the new delivery model

Lloyds Banking Group, Business Readiness Analyst: Supported the delivery of all customer and business unit impacting changes resulting from the automation of the savings account opening journey; EY Internal Business Strategy Consultant: Supported senior management with designing, producing and rolling out processes, tools and artefacts that would enable c. 500 staff to deliver exceptional outcomes on client engagements.

Hotel and Restaurant Management: Business Strategy, Accounting, Marketing, Revenue Management, Economics, Spanish