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Overton, Gb

Ardley, England, United Kingdom

Programme Director to lead and deliver separation following company purchase by investor KKR. Following successful delivery of D365 ERP and exit of TSA moved into new role to grow and innovate business solutions, improve processes and drive and lead internal teams and partners.

Woking

Engagement Manager for SAP Practice. Successfully delivered large S/4 programme for a major utility company. Successful S/4 advisory engagement for facilities and energy business which led to large transformation programme bid and win. Successfully delivered SAP project for HMRC following government directives during pandemic lockdown.

Newbury

UK localization and implementation of global SAP template to manage and track mobile transmitter assets at Vodafone partners and suppliers. Change management to supply chain processes, procurement and warehouse management.

United Kingdom

Agile delivery of HR transformation strategy to standardise and simplify, whilst also delivering new tools and services to 6,000 colleagues. Following RFP, designed roadmap and implemented SAP SuccessFactors suite, including Performance and Goals, Employee Central, Talent Management and Recruitment & Onboarding. Presented ‘story’ of programme at SAP UKI user group 2016. (2 year project). Programme manager for consolidation and outsourcing of warehouse and transport footprint to XPO, £10m saving p.a. (1 year project) Delivered a complex SAP APO / production planning solution to our Premier manufacturing sites - to time, cost and quality, realising planned benefits (6 sites, 1 year project)Programme manager for major company divestment (Hovis) - objective of which was to (i) allow the separated company to run as a stand alone business (ii) design, tender and implement a standalone IT infrastructure and service model for the new business. Scope included splitting SAP processes and re-hosting onto cloud based technology, creating new data centres and end user desktop experience. Also included outsourcing service desk function and related procedures (1 year project). Responsible for IS project office / portfolio management and project governance. Defined, drove and managed 'Google for Work' strategy to implement new tools, work smarter, drive adoption and champion innovative initiatives, delivering functionality rich cutting edge tools whilst also reducing costs for the whole of Premier Foods.

St Albans

Career progression to a business facing role to ensure investment in IT meets the strategic operational priorities and that the IT programme of work has been defined and prioritised and expectations managed. I managed the delivery of services, projects, application development and support, from both internal and external providers. This also included creating a systems roadmap, setting budgets, and identifying solutions / improved ways of working, producing RFPs and supplier selection.I was responsible for the ‘Orders to Cash’ area of the business - sales, order take, order processing, warehousing, delivery and invoicing (SAP modules SCM, DP, WM, APO, AR). I was also accountable for the IT elements of projects in this area plus small developments (circa 60 per year) using in house / offshore development teams. Area encompasses circa 3000 customers of IT, with £3m incremental spend p.a.The organisation was undergoing a major change programme to implement full SAP functionality. Within the scope of my role was to ensure change is managed, delivery was effective and service is to agreed levels. My primary focus was to embed myself with the business and build maintain effective relationships, influencing key stakeholders, fronting the activities of other IT teams (many outsourced and offshore) and suppliers in order to ensure that the business find engagement with IT to be professional, responsive, proactive and adding value.

Reading, United Kingdom

Joined Premier Foods as Programme Manager, assigned to deliver a strategic business wide information infrastructure integration programme through whole life cycle (duration of 2 years started 2007) , capex spend of £3m, resulting in £3m ongoing revenue benefit , delivering a refresh of assets and additional functionality and resilience, facilitated future IT SAP ERP strategy and integration of Premier Foods businesses. Scope included 6000 user enterprise environment, WAN, Service Desk, managed desktop, data centre consolidation, application consolidation, web hosting, internet services, common email, output management, server VM consolidation delivered into an outsourced environment. 6 project managers and 3rd parties reporting directly, total project team 30+.

Windsor

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), It Strategy

Currently studying for an MSc in IT Strategy

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Information Technology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: End year project won best of year prize

Diploma, Archaeology And Prehistory

Acca, Lapsed