George Collier
Impact Data | Product Development & Strategy
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Product Manager and Certified Scrum Product Owner with four years of experience managing technical resources and delivering data products in the impact and sustainability space. A curious and independent learner with experience implementing AI tools, I thrive in fast-paced startup environments and take on diverse responsibilities across the product lifecycle.
Experience
BlueMark – London, UK
Verification and rating firm serving leading financial institutions including Nuveen, Brookfield, and KKR.
Associate, Data & Product 02/2022 – Present
- Led product discovery and requirements definition for BlueMark’s flagship fund verification platform, partnering cross-functionally with engineering, design, and leadership.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews to identify pain points in the verification intake process; translated findings into user stories with acceptance criteria, delivered UAT sessions, and implemented product analytics tracking, including onboarding completion and survey time-to-completion.
- Managed Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement and sprint planning, developed a prioritisation framework using custom scoring to balance business impact, technical feasibility, and user value.
- Identified inefficiencies in the client documentation review process; evaluated NLP and ML tooling, consulted with vendors, and implemented Humata.AI, reducing manual review time by 10 hours per project.
- Embedded generative AI tooling into internal workflows, enabling auto-summarisation of final deliverables into verifier statements, saving teams 5 hours per project.
- Implemented and managed the integration of Qlik Sense for analyticas, developing dashboards and logic via QlikScript and SQL to generate insights used for service delivery and market intelligence.
- Spearheaded a high-stakes data migration from hundreds of legacy Google Sheets to a scalable cloud database, ensuring rigorous QA and cross-functional alignment with stakeholders, reducing data reload times from 15 minutes to under 2 minutes.
- Post-migration, optimised the data model by consolidating picklist formats into a standardised multi-select structure, improving analytics performance and data accuracy.
- Designed and operationalised a full-cycle data QA framework embedded across project milestones, enabling early detection of issues and fostering a culture of data quality.
- Introduced a structured quarterly product roadmap process with senior leadership, including the Firm’s President and Directors, aligning product strategy with business priorities.
- Managed a global network of technical resources, including front-end developers, system architects, system administrators, and data engineers.
Social Value Advisor 10/2021 – 02/2022
- Analysed and validated complex datasets submitted within public sector tenders, using the National TOMs framework to assess impact, compliance, and stakeholder value.
Contributor 06/2021 – 02/2022
- Researched how European investors are adopting various emerging frameworks and standards, such as SFDR, PCAF and the SDGs.
Product Implementation Manager 02/2018 – 05/2021
- Delivered cloud-based solutions (SharePoint, Dynamics, Power BI) from discovery to implementation, navigating legacy constraints and enhancing scalability.
Education
Education & Certifications
Eada Business School 10/2020 – 06/2021
85% in Master’s in Sustainable Business and Innovation The University of Sheffield 09/2015 – 06/2018
2.1 in BSc Economics with Honours
