Anne Wright Email & Phone Number

Knutsford

Key Programme Manager responsibility for signature enterprise programmes covering a range of Barclays businesses. Portfolio includes a range of pan-bank technical replatforms, Consumer Duty, Financial Crime Anti Money Laundering Directives, Information Commissioner's Office Age Appropriate Design, with end to end leadership including executive and strategic horizon scanning/regulatory engagement. Senior Leadership Team Ex-Officio and leadership role for best practice Excellence team, covering capability and process improvement, citizenship and community investment and wellbeing. Co Chair of DEI activity across a portfolio of employee resource groups. Experienced coach and mentor.

End to end delivery leadership of a multi-partner, business-critical IT resilience programme for Barclays UK driven by regulatory compliance commitments and Barclays customer journey optimisation.Responsible for integration of Group toolsets and business process governance frameworks to deliver against regulatory commitments and drive maturity in recovery resilience.

Cheshire

Blue Acer Consultancy Services Limited offers bespoke change management services to corporate clients.Our principal Consultant, Anne Wright is a Senior Business Change Professional and Programme Manager, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including a flair for European languages. Anne is an enthusiastic professional with a proven track record in delivering large scale transformational change, business integration programmes and complex IT solutions through the effective management of multi disciplinary teams.Change Management Experience:Significant experience in leading change management programmes and large scale projects on a Pan European basis in the financial services, chemical, IT and automotive sectors.Breadth of experience encompasses pre-sales solution consultancy, programme/project implementation, target operating model scoping, process improvement, business readiness and deployment as well as account management. Leadership experience managing commercial, pricing, legal and operations teams to support major UK change programmes, outsourcing and European operations. management. Leadership experience managing Commercial, Pricing, Legal and Operations teams to support major UK change programmes and European operations.People Management: Leader of multi disciplinary projects teams to define problems, resolve issues and implement solutions for complex business problems. Project teams are usually > 30 fte with multiple workstreams. Experienced and enthusiastic mentor and coach with a flair for growing others.Methodologies: Qualified and experienced in Programme and Project Management (APMP, PMMS, and Prince II), Six Sigma (DMAIC, DMADOV), Process Re-engineering and LEAN methodologies.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Accountable directly to the VWFS UK Board • VWFS IT Global Programme Of The Year award winner• End to end leadership of a multi-partner, business-critical IT Stabilisation Programme across all functional disciplines to deliver a range of tactical and strategic business outcomes, driven by operational excellence and regulatory compliance requirements, with a strong focus on the Volkswagen customer journey• Provision of organisational transformation expertise to drive accelerated change delivery through the establishment, and embedding of an IT Portfolio delivery function and underpinning process framework• Programme brief to address desktop environment, network and telephony performance issues, reduce incidents and increase resilience. The IT estate and its functional processes were made fit to service the corporate strategy• Highlights: Dark fibre installed between UK datacentres, 1600 desktops upgraded (Ie11, Xen7) within 3 months, a 37% reduction in problem volume, 33.5% reduction in cycle time, WAN performance of 43%, performance of virtual desktop increased by 40%. P1 and P2 incidents were reduced by 34%; all key project objectives in this multi-£M programme were delivered in parallel to time, budget and quality, enabling new business records to be achieved• Note from Chief Operating Officer: “The Stabilisation Programme has made a material positive impact for us to transact as a business and has enabled colleagues to be more productive and efficient due to improvements in availability and performance. The project commitment to quality and delivery has been second to none and it positions IT as a key enabler for VWFS UK success”

Cheshire, Eu, Us

• Accountable directly to the Bodycote board with a budget in excess of £20m• Lead the business change, training, testing and procurement functions for Bodycote IT globally and responsible for continuous improvement, governance and business process management and target operating model in these areas• Initiate the development of cost and quality methods/processes, gain agreement to these and implement them• Develop and deliver against the Bodycote IT strategy, aligned to the wider business direction and drivers• Improve IT governance, internal controls and regulatory compliance• Deliver strategic and operational business change expertise to the Bodycote global ERP programme (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012) throughout the programme lifecycle

Cheshire, Eu, Us

• Manage all business change for all Bodycote IT programmes and on-going system development and ensure successful implementation across the business. Plan and manage business change elements of process standardisation and continuous improvement to improve the business value of IT, including executing parallel change work streams within multiple programmes• Strategic and operational business change expertise to the Bodycote global ERP programme Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 throughout the programme lifecycle • Define and embed the Organisational Change Management, Communications and IT Training strategy• Focus on the "grow" and "transform" aspects of IT, building strong relationships with key stakeholders and programme teams to ensure IT becomes a business-oriented organisation• Manage a team of business subject matter experts to identify change needs, a consistent approach and build consensus around change requirements• Accountable for business readiness activities across the IT portfolio to maximize the business benefits delivered by change initiatives• Apply, measure, enforce, and make recommendations for improving the processes and performance objectives to deliver the IT Strategy and establish base-lined vendor and project management processes• Develop and maintain the Group IT roadmap in conjunction with the senior Project Management Office to identify priorities for change initiatives to deliver measurable benefits• Lead transition management; ensuring that "business as usual" is maintained during transition and manage stabilisation to ensure change is effectively integrated into the business• Manage the IT Training team, Procurement and Contracts Specialist, Compliance and Governance manager to create an aligned Gartner-aligned function to deliver high quality holistic change

BCA is the market leader in vehicle auctions and vehicle remarketing throughout Europe. The leading automotive manufacturers, motor vehicle dealer groups, rental, fleet, leasing and finance companies choose BCA Auctions for vehicle remarketing. Each year BCA Auctions sells over €5 billion of used vehiclesEnd to end programme management of a pan-European Inventory Management System and white label e-sales platform in Italy, Spain, Poland. Technical teams in Poland, Germany and UK. Customer BMW Group - Alphabet.

Slough

Independent Consultant & Change Management Professional - Auto Finance, Leasing & Fleet Management Specialist.• Managing multi-discipline business change programme for internal and customer-facing projects involving a high degree of shaping and managing ambiguity• Santander – leading the creation and implementation of a new white label operation, optimising existing channel operational processes and integrating a new line of business in the existing brand. At c£7m contract value, this required closely managing multiple board level stake holders including those in a regulated bank. Integration impacts on underpinning systems, customer and in house people and front and back office processes. established a disclosed referral leasing partnership with a top 5 UK Commercial bank. The solution provided access to over 500,000 Commercial and Business Banking customers with annual turnover up to £50M via 500 Regional and Branch Managers. The design and launch of this solution was the first time customers of this size within the Commercial Bank sector had access to a vehicle leasing solution and was the first asset finance solution of any form that had been made available to the Business Banking customer base. • Salesforce.com CRM implementation. £2.5m project. Project recovery and stabilisation. Entailed managing complex 3rd party supplier changes (including off-shoring), leading process design for existing brands, managing challenging stakeholders, implementing Salesforce.com with associated business process optimisation and readiness.• Shaping and managing the portfolio for strategy projects directly with the strategy director and new product developments from first idea to benefits delivery tracking after implementation.

Cheadle

Managing the solution development, transition and implementation of vehicle incident management services for one of the largest UK vehicle fleets (contract value c£35m per annum comprising circa 38,000 units of all degrees of complexity) against a backdrop of significant customer business transformation.Pre sales consultant, bid and implementation manager of multi-million pound contracts, across multiple work-streams, stakeholder groups and aggressive timelines. Increasingly consultative role in business change function in guiding others in the definition, shaping, and approach to their business changes to support large corporate customers.

Cheadle

Managed delivery of key element of the ‘Business Change’ workstream for the integration of the Lex and Autolease businesses. Included responsibility for solution design, business process readiness, change control for IT systems integration and interface to stabilisation activities. The business Integration involved transformation of all business process and alignment of business functions for Europe’s largest Leasing operation across multiple locations and 1800 fte with an asset book of £3bn.Senior member of the Programme Delivery and Business Solutioning function for Lex Autolease. Portfolio delivered £12.4m process efficiency improvement and £48m business benefits in 2009 with a £6.8m budget. Direct leadership responsibility for 3 Business Change Project Managers and Sigma/Lean specialists within Business Improvement. In addition, coached Six Sigma Green Belts and Business Change Mangers in delivering key business critical IT and change programmes.Senior member of a client facing implementation team who lead the solutioning and delivery of business change solutions for major customers. Implementations delivered £148m new business in 2009. Key clients included HSBC, Coca Cola Europe and Landrover Jaguar.

Pre sales consultant and implementation manager of multi-million pound KCOM contract. Project required management of project team of 23 fte, multiple stakeholder groups and complex solution definition and delivery with extremely positive customer feedback.Lead the Solution Design and Business Change for complex internal and 3rd party IT systems, including a strategic online solution for blue chip customers. The ability to turn ‘the sales dream into a reality’ represents a key point in the commercial process. Within my role I created confidence in our ability to manage change including demonstrating knowledge of a proven delivery approach and strategies for the management of transition risk.

Manchester

Project and Service Delivery Management covering all managed services, working in both an internal IT function and as an outsourced provider. Global client portfolio including: Marlow Foods, FujiFilm, Avecia Biotechnology, Nicholas Piramal India Limited (formerly Avecia Pharmaceuticals) and Geoffrey Osborne Construction. Scope for supporting these clients is global with staff located in the UK, Europe, US, Japan, Asia.Managing key projects for clients’ businesses: solid track record of managing divestments, geographical moves, business splits and site closures, involving SLA and OLA negotiation and audit compliance. Business process re-engineering consultant for Littlewoods/ShopDirect. Managed hardware procurement supplier relationship and implemented on-line order process with full order tracking and reporting capability.Consultant on extranet project to deliver on-demand self-service change control, incident reporting and call logging on-line for customer use.Consultant implementation manager of ITIL best practice for process improvement. Matrix management to deliver projects and continuous service improvement as a dynamic team with a focus on removing waste and improving process efficiency and effectiveness and embed change across the business.Developing relationships with key stakeholders as their IT consultant and getting the best out of a team of IS staff, managing different agendas and priorities.

Manchester

Ba (Hons) Class 1, English And French

Managing Successful Programmes: Foundation And Practitioner

Postgraduate Diploma: Managing Performance And Change, Business Administration And Management, General

Six Sigma Green Belt And Lean, Business Improvement

Pmms Project Management, Project Management

Prosci Change Management, Business Transformation

Postgraduate Certificate In Management, Business Administration And Management, General

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