Senior Manager

Laura Hield-Ryder

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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

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