A Funnelweb World

A big, big thank you to my friends and family for your support over the past few weeks while I’ve been between jobs. It certainly kept me going and made the waiting easier to cope with. Even Hector phoned me yesterday to see how I was getting on (and he never phones unless its an Aussie emergency!)

The good news is that yesterday I accepted a role with one of Britain’s leading retailers, Marks and Spencer and I hopefully start in a week or so.

It’s not the usual project manager type role, though it will involve managing various large ecommerce projects. Great fun in itself, but probably not enough to have attracted me on its own.

But the main aspect of the job is to help improve the ways of working between M & S and its web host / developer, Amazon, so that there is greater visibility of what’s being done, and changes/projects are delivered faster and better. Apparently, both parties are keen to improve things and looking for someone to drive it to happen. Perfect.

It was this bit that particularly attracted me to this role above others. Fixing a very challenging and high profile relationship for the benefit of both parties. I think I’ll love it.

Maybe its because I’ve been a consultant but I look on my career as a series of things I’ve achieved rather than job titles I’ve held. And “improving the amazon relationship” will hopefully be something I can add to my cv in a year or so’s time.

I’ll also get some hands-on experience of big ecommerce projects and programmes and some retail sector experience along the way.

And it will be a big enough challenge to drive me out of bed in the morning and get stuck into it. Which was simply what I wanted all along.

And sdf is pleased as she also gets an M & S discount card