Adrian Roberts Email & Phone Number

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

Leading a great team of experienced project managers, growing our Centre of Excellence, integrating acquisitions and transforming our service, our portfolio and our enabling systems as Pulsant builds out the UK's Edge computing platform

Maidenhead

Working across the company to shape the organisational priorities and develop actionable business plans that will drive forward the strategic change agenda

London, United Kingdom

• Managing the IT Portfolio PMO team of 7 (EMEA Region) at one of the largest Japanese BanksKey responsibilities:
• Reporting portfolio status, performance trend analysis and KPIs to London and Tokyo management
• Managing investment budget – resource modelling, financial forecasting, utilisation and controls (budget approx. £45m)
• Developing the project management process and project governance standards (gate reviews, change mgmt.) and analysing cross-project issues to reduce risks to delivery
• Provision of effective support and guidance to both in-house and third party (systems integrator) delivery teams, with typically 100+ active projects running under waterfall and agile methodologies
• Providing dedicated programme / project PMO analysts to support weekly reporting, RAID management, financial forecasting, deliverable planning / authorisationKey achievements:

Newbury, Berkshire

• Leading the UK Central PMO team, establishing portfolio and governance processes and providing direction and support to the IT, Networks and Property PMO teams to co-ordinate activity and promote better practices in a.
• Developing UK technology annual investment budget proposals (>£500m capex), collaborating with senior stakeholders from across the business, influencing prioritisation and shaping options for Board review
• Preparing quarterly UK Board reviews of the project portfolio, providing comprehensive analysis, reporting progress and outlook versus key milestones, KPIs and budgets and making recommendations on changes
• Demand management, assessing feasibility, prioritisation and identifying potential trade-offs
• Establishing project governance framework, scalable with the size of each initiative; owning senior Boards / Forums from agenda setting, escalation management, meeting facilitation through to action completion
• Providing direction and support to business change programmes, reviewing ongoing rationale, business cases, plans and risks ahead of gate decisions; coaching, challenging and agreeing remedial actions

Newbury, Berkshire And London Paddington

• Managed Group Commercial input into planning and reporting processes, working with each of the national local market teams to improve alignment to Group strategyKey responsibilities
• Managing Group Commercial (Products, Pricing, Brand) input of strategic initiatives into long-range, annual and quarterly company budgeting and planning processes
• Publishing Group strategic guidance and 18 month product roadmaps to guide in-country business unit planning
• Building strong relationships with national planning teams, sharing ambition and assumptions for global propositions
• Managing all regular senior management reporting processes up to Chief Marketing Officer, providing analysis and insight into KPIs and strategic initiatives (achievements and outlook, including plans to address key.

Newbury, Berkshire

• Developed product release process and tools’ strategy (Clarity) within Global Consumer Programme Office Key responsibilities
• Ownership and continuous improvement of the Global Consumer product development gated project process

Bracknell, Berkshire

• Part of the management team established to create a new Professional Services division, developing the overall business plan and operational infrastructureKey responsibilities
• Developing business plan and systems / processes roadmap to support growth of the division and enable estimating, tracking and cross-charging of activity back to customer engagements
• Tracking key metrics: staff utilisation rates, pipeline activity, revenue, to measure and maximise value added by team

Watford, United Kingdom

• Recruited to lead the Reporting Workstream within the Global Finance Transformation ProgrammeKey responsibilities
• Initiating and leading projects sponsored by Group CFO and Global HR Director o extend strategic financial and operational performance reporting capabilities

Bracknell, Berkshire

• Established a PMO team within Product Management, growing from initial support of UK voice products to be lead PMO for Global product set (co-ordinating across teams in Europe and US), managing a team of 40 including.
• Facilitating agreement of the project portfolios every 6 months, typically >50 projects; annual budgets £20-80m; negotiating final prioritised list from local markets’ (UK, Europe, US and Japan) and global product.
• Developing project- and portfolio-level reporting (overall roadmap, budgets / forecasts, progress, key risks, issues and dependencies (RAID) and benefits – actuals, trends and forecasts)
• Change control process, managing escalations through to closure
• Providing assurance support, chairing regular in-depth project reviews with the project teams and internal customers and leading ad-hoc health check reviews on critical / failing projects to stabilise and turn them.
• Supporting project resource management, recruiting contract project managers, managing new staff induction and leading weekly conference calls to resolve resourcing conflicts within support functions

Technical Design Authority for NHS and Police National Network outsource contracts. Developed key NHS relationships at both the Regional and Trust level. Designed a number of multi-site managed voice and data solutions: identifying customer requirements, developing solution designs, managing technical third parties through to implementation and customer.

Led a team expanding the national managed voice network to support Managed and Outsourced contract wins - over 500 locations connected worldwide.

Network design role within The GEC Network, expanding telecommunications services offered to other GEC companies as industry de-regulation allowed.

Meng With Distinction, Electrical And Electronic Engineering

Mba, Merits In, Strategy, Financial Strategy And Creativity, Innovation & Change