Ashley Hunter

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Tech Leader and senior program manager with experience on large Global Deployments, Separation and Merger with added OT/ Automation. Real world skills built on extensive career. Passionate on developing people and teams. @ Future Academies
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St Albans, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Ashley Hunter

An individual with substantial international experience with global blue chip companies. Significant Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Healthcare, Chemical and Drinks Industry roles. Has sat three times as a member on different global leadership Tech teams. Has been based in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland and Germany as well as England.Track record in leading the planning, costing, delivery and governance of large scale global multi market/ country programmes. Implementing business and tech change. Shaping and maintaining effective delivery and support organisations. Managing concurrent multi disciplinary teams and ensuring quality, cost and target dates are met. Led company division transition to Agile practices from a very traditional and rigid environment. Direct experience in defining and delivering critical streams on mergers (GSK/PfizerCH & NovartisCH, Diageo, GSK/Glaxo & SKB) and separations (Ciba/Novaris, GSK/Haleon, Lonza/ Arxada). Always strong focus on developing people and delivery excellence.Preference for short term and interim roles with significant responsibilityKey SkillsShaping, governing and delivering large programmes in global organisations across multiple countries. Establishment and managing of effective global support service organisations . Domains of ERP, Agile, Governance, Merger, Separation and Operational Technology. People development.

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Tech Leader and senior program manager with experience on large Global Deployments, Separation and Merger with added OT/ Automation. Real world skills built on extensive career. Passionate on developing people and teams.
Ashley Hunter Work Experience Details
  • Future Academies
    School Governor (Volunteer)
    Future Academies Sep 2024 - Present
    London, Gb
    Became a volunteer member of an experienced governance team at Futures Academy Watford school who have strong ambitions to elevate school performance and drive a great outcome for its students. This role allows me to use the skills I developed in the commercial world - abilty to challenge, identifying alternate views/ perspectives, looking for potential solutions, performance management, planning, applying controls and dealing with compliance - to assist in providing the good governance that the Academy wants and needs for the best outcomes.
  • Mapaid
    Delivery Lead (Volunteer)
    Mapaid May 2024 - Present
    Hazelgrove, Cheshire, Gb
    This role is to pull together AI technology and substantial data sets to deliver a freely available phone based application that can be used by small farmers in developing economies to site wells will better success and ensuring placement is sustainable for the local water table
  • Rock-Byte Limited
    Programme Performance And Ot Delivery - Research And Content
    Rock-Byte Limited Jul 2023 - Present
    In process of developing materials to support the sharing of experience and ideas on 1) managing, organising and motivating teams on global change programmes. 2) to help large organisations deal better with splitting or merging the operation technology of a large global manufacturing base 3) learning to avoid common pitfalls in planning and executing global change. Currently in process of completing a Harvard short course - Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets.
  • Arxada
    Head Of Ot (Interim)
    Arxada Nov 2022 - Jun 2023
    Basel, Basel-Stadt, Ch
    Joined the Arxada IT leadership team while company was separating from Lonza. Focussed short term role to shape new organsation in relation to Operation Technology and supporting Data and Analytics for Manufacturing. Scope responsibilities, define the future OT team in IT, define 3rd party support needs and scope. Agree, define and help recruit the agreed IT OT permanent team that will manage from the end of separation. Significant amount of time guiding, structuring and recovering the delivery of the OT Separation activities to hit dates. This stream started later than other components and was not well understood by separation team.
  • None
    Career Break
    None May 2022 - Oct 2022
  • Gsk
    Manufacturing Site Operational Technology Separation Dir
    Gsk Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Define, budget and start programme to separate 27 Consumer Healthcare Manufacturing Sites’ Operation Technology equipment from GSK and to establish a new Haleon OT environment. Work with emerging Haleon organisation to define methods, governance, delivery and support model.
  • Gsk
    Supply Chain Integration Lead (Merger With Pfizer Ch)
    Gsk Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Define, budget and led programme of all work to technically integrate seven Pfizer CH factories into GSK CH business. Included mobilisation of new CH PAS-X MES deployment team and transition to new StarLIMS systems as part of new emerging Haleon CH product portfolio and through the merger. Identify and carve out Operational Technology scope or transition to separate delivery team.
  • Gsk
    Interim Product Director Of Manufacturing (In Addition To Other Roles)
    Gsk Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Define and establish Agile product ownership, organisation structure and operating model over a range of manufacturing systems including MES, OEE, Serialisation and Artwork (including related operation technology) for emerging Haleon organisation prior to separation. Recruit permanent staff to inhabit these roles.
  • Gsk
    Agile Transformation Lead Consumer Healthcare
    Gsk May 2018 - Jan 2019
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Responsible for shaping and instigating the transformation of Consumer Healthcare from a traditional Tech operating waterfall environment to an Agile data lead product managing business unit with the support of a specialist Agile partner. Implementing cross functional tech and business teams using Agile practices and ceremonies to flexibly deliver highest value work in sprints with clear learning cycles and careful measurement of success whilst complying to GSK quality expectations but defining new approaches. and careful measurement of success.
  • Gsk
    Director Global Solutions Delivery Back Office
    Gsk Feb 2014 - Oct 2018
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Accountable for delivering global programmes of market IT projects to enable new GSK SAP template solution rollout across almost all markets. My scope includes integration, changes to local non SAP systems and local target operating models to 3rd parties (Rx and Consumer Health) Leading a set of global market IT merger activities to enable the Novartis and GSK Consumer Health merger, responsible for non SAP global markets and supporting the local IT activiites for SAP markets.
  • Gsk
    Programme Director Erp Market Integration
    Gsk Sep 2011 - Oct 2018
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Lead programme of work integrating and dealing with impacts of standard SAP roll in at a market level globally. This programme as successfully delivered 53 markets.
  • Gsk
    Member Of Consumer Healthcare Tech Leadership
    Gsk Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    In addition to overlapping role responsibility - was a standing member of leadership of senior directors with overall stewardship of the Consumer Healthcare Tech function for GSK. Define strategies for Agile, education, motivation, renumeration, budgeting and with a focus of transformation from a traditional Pharma model.
  • Gsk
    Deployment Director - Global Sap Programme
    Gsk Sep 2009 - Sep 2011
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Deployment Director for first wave of a global Business Process and SAP Template rollout. First wave scope included Germany and key supporting entities. On joining the programme I lead the development of the Tech Delivery plan for first 18 months of programme with Systems Integrator.
  • Gsk
    Director Of Solutions For Manufacturing And Commercial Sap Systems
    Gsk Jan 2009 - Sep 2009
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Accountable for all SAP development and devliery of chagnes against the commerical and manufacturing environements. Three commercial SAP instances covering 19 pharma markets and two SAP instances covering 20 manufacturing sites.
  • Gsk
    Director Of Solutions For Live Commercial Systems (Sap)
    Gsk Aug 2008 - Jan 2009
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Reponsible for managing the develop and implementation of enhancement releases into live commerical SAP systems that supports Japan and 16 markets in Europe and over 10,000 users.
  • Gsk
    Programme Director (Sap)
    Gsk May 2008 - Jan 2009
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    After having developed the GSK European strategy for the best practice process for travel and expense management (see prior role), and rolling out to France (1st and Template market), Italy and Netherlands - I assumed ownership for the full programme of work. This programme will deliver a standardised T&E process and systems to around 10,000 employees across 16 markets.
  • Gsk
    Senior Project Manger (Sap)
    Gsk Jan 2006 - May 2008
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Developed the GSK European strategy for the best practice process for travel and expense management, then was given responsibility to build and implement the SAP European “template” in the first and largest market on the 16 country roll-out – France. (FI, CO, SD). Now managing the implemention a number of subsequent markets Italy, Netherlands and Germany.
  • Gsk
    Self Service Benefits Delivery Mgr
    Gsk Jun 2005 - 2006
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    The aim of role was about the assisting in identifying opportunities, driving uptake and improving quality of Self Service applications across GSK globally. The ultimate target is to streamline global processes and improve employee productivity and remove bureaucracy. It was part of my responsibility to influence and guide teams to address usability and deliver quality GSK applications that gave the maximum benefit to GSK. Brought clarity to self service plans across the all corporate teams, drove a focus on improving employee productivity
  • Gsk
    It Services & Solutions Mgr
    Gsk 2002 - 2005
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Responsible for all Development and Support of GSK Global Operations Finance systems for Consolidation and Intercompany Profit tracking.
  • Gsk
    Change Manager (Freelance)
    Gsk Apr 2002 - Nov 2002
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Reviewed the existing transition process of multiple merger projects into the Shared Financial Service steady state – identified ways to reduce impact, improve quality and ensure supportability
  • Gsk
    Programme/ Project Mgr (Freelance)
    Gsk Feb 2001 - Jan 2002
    Brentford, Middlesex, Gb
    Responsible for definition, mobilisation and delivery of 3 merger projects for SKB and Glaxo Wellcome projects• GSK Order Entry / AR Implementation Project (Merge GW and SKB operations)• JDE Migration Project • Shared Fin. Services • Management Reporting Re-engineering Project
  • Heinz
    Migration Worksteam Leader (Freelance)
    Heinz Mar 2000 - Dec 2000
    Lead the technical migration team for a mainframe to BPCS migration
  • Ciba-Geigy
    Programme/ Project Mgr (Freelance)
    Ciba-Geigy Nov 1997 - Feb 2000
    (Highly condensed) Responsibility for the management of the development and support of global financial reporting system that supported 15 shared financial service centres that delivered 5 day corporate reporting of consolidated financial data from all the 110+ Ciba BPCS implementations. Our key customers were senior and reported directly to the board – we delivered to the highest level of the Ciba organisation
  • Diageo
    Senior Project Manger (Freelance)
    Diageo Sep 1996 - Oct 1997
    London, Gb
    Lead the implementation of a new sales forecasting, production planning distribution for the merged organisatoin (BPCS, Meria Links)

Ashley Hunter Skills

Sap Project Governance Business Intelligence Integration Erp Itil Data Migration Pmo Strategy It Service Management Forecasting Implementation Methodology Management Sap R/3 Sd It Strategy Business Process Improvement

Ashley Hunter Education Details

  • Monash University
    Monash University
    Information Technology

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