Alan Stewart

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ABOUT ALAN STEWART

My current role is Commercial Inventory Operations Director at Global Media and Entertainment. Working in the Commercial Team I am responsible for the inventory management of all audio capacity across Radio & DAX.I am a Commercial and Operations Analyst with 23 years experience at market leading media owners. I lead a team of inventory and commercial specialists who are part of Global Radio’s award winning Commercial Team. Recently, I\'ve become an OKR coach at Global and attending Section 4 Business School and have completed modules on branding, product development, strategy and data & analytics. My objective is to ensure that Global can deliver commercial forecasts within commercial inventory/commercial breaks whilst balancing listener needs.In addition to this my team are responsible for analysing airtime sales; delivering management information, sales analytics and working with sales teams to ensure best practice airtime planning and pricing.Specialties: Key Skills• Pricing and Inventory Management specialist• High degree of numeracy and commercial acumen• Tableau dashboard designer and owner• Forecasting and modelling expertise.• Excellent communication and influencing skills.• Strong presenter and present to board directors.• Leading, managing and developing a team. Including change management• Experienced Product Owner in Agile software development.• Detailed understanding of IT project management including OKR\'s, Lean, Agile and Kanban.• OKR Coach and attending Section 4 Business School• Advanced Excel and Tableau user and good understanding of Cognos and Salesforce.com.• Certified Pricing Professional (US pricing qualification)