Principal Consultant
Current• Extensive experience of leading the delivery of complex IT and business transformation portfolios, programmes, and projects as both supplier and customer through in-sourced and outsourced relationships.• Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to forge strong relationships at senior levels.• Persuasive communication and effective influencing and negotiation skills. • Strategic Visioning. • Considerable understanding of business operations with the gravitas to work confidently at C-level.• Proactive risk management - ensuring minimal acceptable risk profiles are achieved and maintained.• Budget management >£30M (transformation) and >£10M (operational service)• Focused requirements analysis and detailed specification of business cases.• Benefits realisation planning and tracking to ensure stable foundations for successful change.• Leadership of multiple matrix and direct managed teams to ensure efficient full lifecycle delivery capability.• Detailed technical knowledge of current ICT infrastructure, architecture and trends, coupled with a flair for making complex ICT understandable to a non-technical business audience.• Lean Six Sigma practitioner with relevant experience of Business Analysis and Lean process re-design. PRINCE2 Practitioner with extensive experience in MSP, PMI PMBoK, PPM, MoR, and ITIL.• Various Waterfall and Agile project delivery methods including PPM, SDM, Agile and Scrum• Mentoring and coaching