Barry Noble Email & Phone Number

Hartlepool, Gb

Uk

As a Senior IT Business Analyst and Project Manager at Alshaya Group, I lead strategic initiatives to enhance financial performance, optimize vendor management, and drive operational efficiency. By leveraging data analysis and advanced tools, I deliver actionable insights that inform decision-making and generate measurable value in a fast-paced retail environment.Key Achievements:Cost Savings:Eliminated $11M in vendor service overlaps over four years by identifying redundant contracts and implementing corrective actions.Secured $20M in savings over five years by renegotiating Oracle licensing contracts after uncovering $6M in inefficiencies linked to project delays.Improved Budget Accuracy:Designed a forecasting platform to track contract spend and reconcile financial statements, uncovering and correcting a $4.5M misallocation to resolve budget overspend.Enhanced Vendor Management:Strengthened relationships with key suppliers by streamlining communication channels and aligning services with SLAs, driving operational improvements.Key Responsibilities:Analyzing procurement inefficiencies and developing cost-saving strategies.Leading cross-functional teams to execute corrective actions and streamline processes.Implementing technology solutions, including Power BI models, to uncover insights and enhance financial oversight.In this role, I combine strategic thinking with a hands-on approach to deliver substantial value and foster a culture of continuous improvement. My ability to navigate complex organisational structures and drive impactful change has consistently contributed to the success of high-profile initiatives.

Responsibilities:I am currently employed as the senior enlisted advisor to the chief executive officer at Yorkshire Officer's Training Regiment. I am responsible for driving forward organisational strategy, managing and maintaining policy, standards and continuous improvement. My role as the senior enlisted soldier also incorporates a thorough understanding of human resources and welfare provisions surrounding both permanent employees and vulnerable adult trainees. My subsidiary roles are: Head of training policy and assurance, Organisation Fire Safety Manager, Trauma risk coordinator.Key Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Leader and role model.- Senior coach, mentor and training subject matter expert.- Policy adviser and assurance lead.- Career advisor.- SHEF advisor.- Strategic operations manager.- Risk management.- Programme plannerKey Achievements:- Created an organisational partnership with a veterans charity to help increase their revenues and fund raising abilities.- Identified poor organisational performance indicators and implemented procedures to improve them.- Created a robust invalidation process to drive continuous improvement and maximise organisational output.

Colchester, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:During this period I was employed as a senior logistics and supply chain manager working tirelessly to support a workforce of up to 750 personnel in resource allocation. I played a key role in the project delivery of two major multi-million pound overseas exercises and a short notice high-profile operational deployment to Afghanistan. I was responsible for the procurement, receipt, accounting and safe storage of millions of pounds of ammunition and other inventory, managing facilities infrastructure of over 20 buildings, developing and implementing SHEF policies to meet stringent regulation.Keys Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Managed a close team of 15 logistic officers.- Proficient communication and interpersonal skills with civilian contractors (Sodexo, Amey, DIO).- Managed import and export logistics supplies globally, policy and legislation.- Thorough financial accountability and procurement.- Thorough knowledge of Management of the Joint Deployed Inventory (MJDI).- Engaged with external stakeholders delivery audits and inspections.- Managed multi complex projects and achieved organisational objectives.- Communicated information at senior board meetings and advising logistics matters.- Managed numerous organisational risks and delivered risk assessment training.- Managed a wide spectrum of HSE matters including COSHH, Safety, Health, Environment, Fire and waste.Key Achievements: - Devised and implemented a change management initiative that tracked inefficiencies in ammunition procurement to better predict order flow resulting in less financial wastage to the organisation. - Played a key project management role planning and delivering an overseas exercises to France and Macedonia deploying a workforce of around 750.- Played a key project management role building a Covid-19 quarantine facility for troops returning from operations.

Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:During this employment period I returned back to RMAS as the operations manager of a workforce of around 100 trainees from wide ranging and diverse backgrounds. Responsible of meeting organisational objectives and training output requirements. Key Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Lead a team of highly competent and qualified trainers.- Coach and Mentor trainers through formal observations for external assurance.- Manage the training schedule.- Manage care and welfare needs of a diverse training audience.- Implement stringent policy and regulations.- Project manage and deliver military exercises. - Communicate and advise senior leaders at executive meetings.- Innovate training delivery foster continuous improvement. Key Achievements:- Implemented innovative change to meet the objectives of the organisation during the hight of the pandemic. - Created technology enhanced learning packages, established and managed rigorous Covid-19 isolation and testing regime.

Responsibilities: I was the operations manager and advisor to the executive officer of an extremely high readiness workforce of up to 100 employees. My role was to manage and administrate the team preparing them for operational duties in hostile environments around the world. I was the senior non-commissioned officer within the workforce leading by example and set the tone for a culture of continuous improvement. During my role I successfully assisted in the strategic objectives of the organisation being met whilst nurturing the talent of my junior leaders. Key Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Managed millions of pounds of inventory (weapons and technical equipment).- Implemented rigorous security measures..- Project management experience. - Driving a continuous improvement culture.- Mentor, trainer and advisor.- Training assurance.- Policy advisor. - Experienced Operations Manager.- Empowers the team, maximising performance.- Staying objectives focused while dealing with other complex issues.- Career management and appraisal.- SHEF, HSE implementation.Key Achievements:- Deployed as a senior advisor on operations working in a NATO headquarters consisting of executive officers from 15 nations. Key role in strategic level planning, risk and security management matters.- Played a key role in a multi-million pound project to create a new military unit and build a barracks to become operational in very tight deadlines with stringent budgets. Engaged in stakeholder management throughout.- Devised, managed and delivered a project to build a memorial to fallen veterans. Created the business plan, managed the project scope through to delivery, meeting time, cost, quality specifications

Catterick Garrison, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:During this role I managed millions of pounds of inventory and infrastructure used to support and sustain recruit training delivery at P Company ITC Catterick. Maintained stringent accountability processes. Implemented SHEF policy.key Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Managed accommodation for 60 people.- Oversaw compliance with COSHH, Fire, Health & Safety procedures. - Minimised losses by implementing planned and unplanned stock checks. - Controlled the receipt, safe storage and distribution of public property and equipment.- Passed 100% of Equipment Care inspections after embedding policies, procedures and best practices.- Effective use of accounting software - Management of the Joint Deployed Inventory (MJDI).- Career planning and appraisal.Key Achievements:Introduced robust SHEF procedures and passed an external assurance audit.

Responsibilities:During this role I was responsible for leadership, development, management, teaching and administration of over 30 highly motivated men and woman to meet the workforce objectives of British Army at the world renowned centre for leadership excellence, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. I was a role model to the trainees upholding the values and standards of the organisation; striving for high performance.Key Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Dynamic teacher to extremely enthused, motivated trainees.- Implemented welfare provisions to safegaurd trainees.- Thorough knowledge of performance coaching.- Instilled ethos and values and standards.- Designed/ delivered training projects.- Empathetic leadership style to a diverse cohort of students with complex needs.Key achievements:- I was selected in the top 10% from a cohort of over 30 extremely capable peers to teach and assess the next generation of potential instructor candidates over a 4 week period. This included assessing and providing feedback to peers of similar experience.

South Wales

Responsibilities:During this role I commanded, lead, managed, administrated and developed a platoon of over 30 paratroopers of varying levels of experience to prepare them for a 6 month operational tour of duty in Afghanistan. I was the exemplar of the British Army's Values and Standards.Key Skills:- Interpersonal skills.- Emotional Intelligence.- Lead by example- Teach infantry tactics- build team ethos - Coach and Mentor junior commissioned officers- Coach and Mentor junior commanders. - Manage welfare and implement policies.- Manage careers and annual appraisals.- Whole range of administrative tasks.Key Achievements:Prepared and deployed with my platoon on operational duties in Afghanistan. Achieved the operational objectives of the unit with distinction.

Responsibilities:During this period of employment I worked at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate as a section commander instructor responsible for the delivery of initial military syllabus to a group of 8 recruits aged 16 years. This was the period when I learned to hone my formal teaching and mentoring skills, build self-confidence in the trainees to reach their full potential.Keys Skills:- Interpersonal skills- Emotional intelligence- Confidence building- Innovative teaching- Acceptance of feedback to approve performance.- Early project management experience. Key Achievements:- I was given a project management task to organise a mid scale competition and history celebration event involving 120 people and finishing with a social event. This involved scope management, budgeting, stakeholder engagement and managing external contractors.

Various

Responsibilities:This period of my life spanned from joining the Army at aged 16 years through to junior command in operational theatres. This was when I learned the importance of teamwork and trust in one another. I was extremely receptive of the values that the military instilled in me of integrity, selfless commitment, loyalty. Matched with the values I had engrained from my parents of hardwork, humility and empathy had prepared me for the many challenges that laid ahead.Key Skills:ListeningWork ethicTeamworkSelf motivationHumilityKey achievements:- Many operational deployments performing in unpredictable fast changing environments.

Ba Honours, Business Management, First Class

Level 5 Certificate, Effective Coaching And Mentoring, Pass

Level 5 Certificate, Leadership And Management, Pass

Level 6 Diploma, Management And Leadership, Pass

Level 4 Award, Supply Chain Inventory Management, Pass