Senior Manager
Laura Hield-Ryder
Specialisms:
- Commercial Operations
- Sales Excellence
- Strategy Execution
Laura empowers businesses to scale with strategic clarity, operational excellence and measurable commercial impact. With a background in both corporate and start-up environments, she drives meaningful action and energises teams to embed lasting change.
Laura has over 20 years of experience in energy, most recently as Chief of Staff to the CEO of a SaaS scale up in battery storage and previously in senior leadership roles at E.ON UK, spanning commercial, sales and operations. Including:
- Chief of Staff (Arenko – SaaS scale up)
- Director of Sales Operations (Arenko – SaaS scale up)
- Head of Operations – Solar & Storage (E.ON UK)
- Head of Sales Development – Business & Community Solutions (E.ON UK)
- Head of Customer Management – B2B Sales (E.ON UK)
Laura's recent achievements include:
- Led strategy and commercial development for a cleantech scaleup in partnership with the CEO. Implemented and managed OKRs to enhance strategic alignment, driving improved delivery against the company’s mission
- Led sales transformation programme, migrating 400 sellers to a single CRM and embedding a new sales methodology to increase margins by £1.4m
- Delivered operational and process efficiency improvements across Solar business, reducing costs by 10% and reducing time to install by 30% driving increased revenue