Constructing Excellence is delighted to announce the first two confirmed speakers for our 2015 Annual Conference “Beyond the Built Environment” at Lords Cricket Ground on 11th November. Both speakers will address how their organisations are tackling key issues, the same issues that are facing our industry, and that are set out in the Construction 2025 strategy.
Alex Dulewicz, Head of Marketing for Services – Rolls Royce
Presentation theme:
‘Furthering collaborative working and supply chain integration to deliver greater value’
In his role, Alex is responsible for the generation of marketing strategies, promotion of Rolls-Royce service messages and creation and delivery of services presentations that maximise the perceived value and competitiveness of the Rolls-Royce services portfolio. He works closely with the Service Development team to bring new service offerings to market that provide differentiation for Rolls-Royce and to provide analysis and feedback on Services competitiveness and perception in the market.
A full profile of Alex and Rolls Royce can be found below.
Kay Allen OBE, Founding Director – Trading for Good
Presentation / theme:
- What’s your reputation worth?
- Do you promote all the good that you do to your customers as part of your strategic business plan? If not why not?
- Learn how you can capitalise on the Social Value you generate
Kay is the Founding Director of 3 companies; Trading for Good, Really Useful Stuff and Diverse Advice – a CSR consulting firm. Previously a Non-Executive Director DWP Pension Disability and Carers Service, Kay is a well networked, high profile ambassador for equality and social action with a proven track record as an outstanding innovator in the private and public sector.
A full profile of Kay and Trading for Good can be found below.
Conference Details
Booking for the conference will be open soon, and we have already had an exceptional level of interest in taking one of the 180 places available. You can make sure you are notified about this first by registering your interest here.
There are a variety of sponsorship packages still available, so if you are interested in positioning your brand alongside that of Constructing Excellence and demonstrating that you strive for excellence within our industry please download the brochure here.
To engage with the event on social media in the run up and on the day itself please use the hashtag #BeyondBE
Alex Dulewicz, Head of Marketing for Services – Rolls Royce
About Rolls Royce Holdings plc
- Rolls-Royce’s vision is to create better power for a changing world via two main business divisions, Aerospace and Land & Sea. These business divisions address markets with two strong technology platforms, gas turbines and reciprocating engines. Aerospace comprises Civil Aerospace and Defence Aerospace. Land & Sea comprises Marine, Nuclear and Power Systems.
- Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 120 countries, comprising more than 380 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers including 70 navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.
- Our business is focused on the 4Cs:
- Customer – placing the customer at the heart of our business
- Concentration – deciding where to grow and where not to
- Cost – continually looking to increase efficiency
- Cash – improving financial performance.
- Annual underlying revenue was £14.6 billion in 2014, around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services. The firm and announced order book stood at £73.7 billion at the end of 2014.
- In 2014, Rolls-Royce invested £1.2 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 31 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.
- Rolls-Royce employs over 54,000 people in more than 50 countries. Over 15,500 of these are engineers.
- The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and to further developing employee skills. In 2014 we employed 354 graduates and 357 apprentices through our worldwide training programmes. Globally we have over 1,000 Rolls-Royce STEM ambassadors who are actively involved in education programmes and activities; we have set ourselves a target to reach 6 million people through our STEM outreach activities by 2020.
Speaker profile/biography
Based in Derby, Alex Dulewicz is the Head of Marketing for Services. In his role, Alex is responsible for the generation of marketing strategies, promotion of Rolls-Royce service messages and creation and delivery of services presentations that maximise the perceived value and competitiveness of the Rolls-Royce services portfolio. He works closely with the Service Development team to bring new service offerings to market that provide differentiation for Rolls-Royce and to provide analysis and feedback on Services competitiveness and perception in the market.
Prior to his current role, Alex was Customer Marketing Director, Middle East and South East Asia for the Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace division. He was responsible for working alongside the regional customer business teams to build strong customer relationships and identify future wide body engine sales opportunities for the Civil Business.
He joined the Company in September 2004 and previously worked as Customer Business Manager for Fast Jet & Helicopter Programmes in the Company’s Gas Turbines Services (GTS) Business. He completed two years in the Civil Operations Centre, Derby, managing the Trent 500 and Trent 800 in-service fleets.
Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, Mr. Dulewicz graduated from Warwick University with a Masters of Engineering & Management.
Outside work, Mr. Dulewicz is a qualified solo and formation skydiver with over 185 jumps to his name. He has an identical twin brother and enjoys slalom waterskiing, snow skiing and running half marathons.
Kay Allen OBE, Founding Director – Trading for Good
About Trading for Good
Trading for Good is a digital platform championing the good work of the UK’s small businesses. By capturing the social value they create, and giving them a forum for communicating that social value, Trading for Good encourages these businesses to do even more good for the community. It’s free and simple to sign up.
@TradingforGood
Speaker profile/biography
Kay is the Founding Director of 3 companies; Trading for Good, Really Useful Stuff and Diverse Advice – a CSR consulting firm. Previously a Non-Executive Director DWP Pension Disability and Carers Service, Kay is a well networked, high profile ambassador for equality and social action with a proven track record as an outstanding innovator in the private and public sector.
