Ali Wiser Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

Freelance Senior Project Manager/Define Lead. Project management of insurance application through Define and Build. Including planning, estimating, aligning with third parties and stakeholder management.

San Francisco, California, US

• Following acquisition of Rufus Leonard by frog, my new responsibilities covered all aspects of the business operations from resourcing to commercial reporting alongside leading the CS/DM team and their outputs.
• Brought greater visibility to both opportunities, availability of resource and utilisation
• Consolidated resourcing processes and profile management
• Standardised ways of reporting on new business and sales opportunities
• Consolidated commercial reporting to one format from disparate sources
• Established a clear view of tooling (cost, management, license control, responsibility, consolidation etc) and contributed to global decisions around tooling and transitions

Ensuring that operations and delivery processes ran as efficiently as possible for maximised profit, people’s well-being and client satisfaction. Delivering seamless orchestration of multiple parts of the business, setting, implementing and monitoring quality standards for project management with a focus on the continuous improvement in the way we manage.

Led the Delivery team, setting, implementing and monitoring quality standards for project management at Rufus Leonard, maintaining a focus on continuous improvement in process and output. Ensuring the commercial success of the projects and programmes from defining the optimal approach to monitoring deliverables and incorporating lessons learned.Responsible.

Lead delivery on a portfolio of accounts working to ensure the profitability of the work, effectiveness of delivery and the ongoing pipeline. Example of clients and projects: The Share Centre (share.com): update the marketing site and sign-up process with a new design and functionality. Align account and trading site and introduce responsive behaviours.

• Led a team of 15-20 project and account managers delivering projects from brand and comms to digital delivery.
• Responsible for the day to day management of the team, including recruitment, absence, performance reviews, wellbeing and career development.
• Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of projects and with the appropriate level of project management.
• Monitored use and effectiveness of methodologies on a company and project level working with teams to deliver projects in waterfall, agile or planned iterative. Sample of clients:The Share Centre: UX, design.

Delivered a diverse range of projects across including brand and comms, digital, transformation, build and across multiple sectors from financial services to public sector and charity. Clients included: Anderson Consulting, Lloyds TSB, AXA, Morgan Stanley Credit Cards, Visa, Shell Chemicals, Shell Renewables, Credit Suisse, Environment Agency, Skandia.