{"id":594,"date":"2021-09-09T16:59:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=594"},"modified":"2022-11-03T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:15:04","slug":"alex-pryde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/09\/alex-pryde\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pryde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2021, UK<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>\u201cIf you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go further &#8230; go together.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I currently work for the Pharmaceutical company Thornton &amp; Ross (STADA) as a Regional Market Access Manager. My role involves product launch strategy and working with the NHS to support local health economies become more cost effective and cost efficient. I have a real passion for data and analytics and love that part of my role. I really enjoy data visualisation and have recently been using Power BI to visualisation different data sets within on our organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work I have just completed my Certificate in Marketing with the CIM where I wrote a digital marketing strategy for Brewdog aimed at Generation Z. I play Rugby for my local team and also enjoy golf. I like to run half marathons (this year I have run Charing, Dartford and Crystal Palace twice. I love reading about business and sport. I serve with the British Army reserve with 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Battalion Princess of Wales\u2019s Royal Regiment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently I lead on a project to redesign our external business intelligence dashboards which were rolled out in February 2021. The project was just under five months and I led on everything from design to implementation. The Success of the project completely changed the way we business plan as the dashboards allow stakeholders to pull insights rapidly. Following this I also lead of various projects designing our own bespoke dashboards with Power BI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The promotional video blew me away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your motivations for undertaking an MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To progress my career into senior management but also to give me confidence to start an analytics business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To head up a franchise in another part of the world then to progress to Senior VP\/Commercial Ops Director for the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Understand the three core fundamentals of your business and and prioritise your most important tasks. Adapt a \u201cWill it make the boat go fastest\u201d mentality<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2021, UK \u201cIf you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go further &#8230; go together.\u201d I currently work for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/09\/alex-pryde\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249096],"tags":[249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}