Alastair Cragg Email & Phone Number

An accomplished Operations Director and aspiring COO. Tangible experience and reputation across the end to end operations cycle; all in support of the time and cost-effective realisation of the executive strategic vision. Proven expertise gained across internally and externally facing operational change, transformation, integration, restructuring and resource planning and all with P&L accountability.Areas of expertise• Strategic Operational Change Management – Creation of flexible supply model including strategic capability partners and agencies to remove £10 million cost leakage• Resource Planning – Increased the overall resource utilisation across 7,000 resources through analytical supply/demand planning (10% increase)• Commercial acumen – Provided financial analysis and oversight of budgets of circa £250 million• Operational Cost Improvement - Delivered Fixed Price, Time and Materials(T&M) and Output / Outcome Based support with full P&L control and exceeded budget targets for previous five years• Transformation - Supported multiple acquisitions and mergers that saw UK headcount increase by 100%, and owned the People Transition program that increased utilisation by 20%

Listed skills include Business Process Improvement, Outsourcing, Business Process, Stakeholder Management, and 16 others.