The contract we have will last for several years. I am currently working on one of their most high profile projects involving the deployment involving RePos (Replatforming Electronic Point of Sale) and new Desktop 4 Pcs, a network upgrade, a new Infrastructure server and Customer Contact Management System into all of their 469 stores. The project started in June 2002 and will be the end of July 2003. I joined in October 2002 and My organization is responsible for the allocation of new Desktop several PCs and printers.
In the morning the first thing I most certainly will usually do is spend around 30 minutes reading, answering and selecting my emails. I have two separate email accounts - the first is used for store specific correspondence and the other is used for my general business admin. Lunch time! One of the advantages of working for a large company and a big project is the number of people you meet, so often there is someone to catch up with over lunch. I actually work opposite a girl who also read History at Edinburgh University but we had never met before. You can find eight other Analysts working together about this project who are all a comparable age and graduated in the same year from university or college. Often I'll grab a sandwich and take it back to my table. No-one is watching you clocking in your hours and it nevertheless surprises but impresses me how much we are left to manage our own time and responsibilities. Every two weeks I provide a status report to my own immediate supervisor so she knows where I am and what I'm doing.
12: 30 to at least one: 00 pm. I have a meeting with one of the Consultants on the team to debate the problems we've been having with the convenience of kit from conversion rates. We have decided to go and meet our main contact at the warehouse so that they can improve relations and consequently get faster results. This will mean planning to Essex first thing Thursday morning and I have been asked to organise your meeting, take minutes and as preparation familiarise myself while using the contract that was finalized so that I'm up to date.
1: 00 pm hours to 3: 00 pm hours. If I have not yet had an answer from my morning emails, I will chase them which includes a call to make sure they are being actioned. Experience has taught me that it is better to be polite and pushy in order to get results - the store personnel have a million and one activities every day and are often grateful for the reminder. Each time a store's allocation has been agreed, there are several processes I have to follow to ensure that each store is tracked correctly and the correct information is entered in our database. I'll usually have quite an extensive 'to do' list on the run which often includes chasing up issues from the overnight conversions and organizing and updating documentation on which I've been doing.
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