Declan McCourt

Leadership

External Stakeholder

Project Management

Team Management

Different teams require different leadership skills, and the experience I bring from the COO and Director of Special Projects role through to project lead and general team member has provided me a vast toolkit to handle fluid critical challenges.

Competitor Interlligence

Product Alignment

Conflicting USP’s

Market Positioning/G2M Planning

Comparative assessments of near peer competitor offerings, market share and the product’s unique selling points provides a solid foundation to create differentiators to promote growth and inform short and long term strategic planning.

Sourcing

Procurement

Supply Chain Management

Logistics Optimisation

Working with established local and global partners we can tackle challenges from cost, material shortages to global pandemics we can build redundant sustainable supply chains.

Design

Product & Industrial Design

Manufacturing

Cradle to Grave

Identifying primary and secondary customer needs and focusing on core deliverables creates a streamlined design process from initial proof of concept to scale manufacturing.

Quality Control

Functional Testing

Hardware/Software

Internal/External Documentation

Planning for testing begins early and can help provide critical feedback at the right time, saving time, money and resources for both internal teams and customers using frameworks such as ITSQB, hands on user testing and external partner evaluation.

Certification

Product Certification

Company Certification

Certification can be critical for both market entry, meeting customer and regulatory requirements and these can be everything from CE and IP rating through to sustainability and ISO standards.

Sustainability

Company & Product Sustainability

Accessibility

ESG

From assessing the firms environmental impact through to designing products with a recyclable focus and prioritising internal ESG policies sustainability will be critical to the success, perception, funding and reception of both the product and business to investors and consumers.