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Newbury

• Accountable for enabling the GMT-level definition and delivery oversight of the VFUK Capex Investment Plan. With the support of 2 DRs, this is managed through Executive Governance and the VFUK Portfolio Management.
• Supported the process to design, and then secure GMT approval for, the Delivery Transformation Strategy – including a new organisation-wide delivery Operating Model, Ways of Working and transformation programme.
• Designed, and implemented, an overarching Portfolio Operating Model and Ways of Working across 7 Business Units and Functions.
• Responsible for the design, execution, and ongoing evolution of Executive Governance. This governance cycle, which drives understanding and alignment across a delivery leadership community of 40+ senior stakeholders.
• Accountable to the Director, Strategy & Wholesale, for the Business Unit’s Portfolio Management

Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Managing a team of ten+ delivery and Lean experts, was responsible for the delivery of major programmes and continuous improvement across UK Finance. From change management support to multi year, complex, cross functional initiatives to digitisation and efficiency of in-function processes through the utilisation of Lean methodologies. Implemented new.

Newbury, United Kingdom

Portfolio Manager responsible for the end to end delivery of IT and business change into the Commissions Team within the Finance Operations division of Vodafone UK. Facing cross-business (Consumer, Enterprise, Retail/Franchise and Indirect) manages the portfolio of change required to ensure the Commissions Team is able to deliver payments in line with.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Project Manager within the Business Transformation Membership and Propositions Portfolio. Within 6 months of arrival successfully delivered a £1.6M project with ExCo oversight, which enabled British Bankers' Association code of practice compliance across the Society. Requiring systems, business process and third party change the project impacted on 11,000.

Army Headquarters, Andover

• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of a pan-Army (110,000 personnel) strategic cultural change project. Adhered to the P3M corporate change framework, governance standards and tools.
• Through collaboration with stakeholders identified the deliverables required for successful change across the 20 project work strands and facilitated their execution.
• Identified change outcomes and the measures of effectiveness through which benefits were gauged.
• Assured the coherency of outputs in line with programme and strategic business requirements.
• Produced a pre-emptive and flexible communication plan which identified and targeted stakeholder groups, while managing risk, to enable effective change throughout the organisation, with a particular focus on National.

Defence Academy UK, Shrivenham

• Strategic management and planning course designed to develop and enhance Senior Managers to a post graduate level in planning, resourcing and delivery
• Graded in the top 10% of 160 students. Recommended to return as an instructor and mentor

Army Headquarters, Andover

• Directly responsible to the Army’s Chief Personnel Services Officer for the policy and practice assurance of incidents that resulted in the injury or death of personnel across the organisation, requiring agile.
• Initiated process efficiencies which reduced a historic casework backlog of 200 to nil in an 18 month period. This ensured that the business met its statutory obligations, minimised reputational risk and expedited the.
• Conducted a review of self-harm in the Army, collaborating with external stakeholders and identifying organisational lessons. The review resulted in changes to corporate policy, which included enhanced training, advice.

19th Regiment Royal Artillery And 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment

• Accountable and responsible to the Commanding Officer for human resource delivery to 1000 soldiers through the management and development of a team of 20 specialist personnel. Managed pay and finances, including public.
• Achieved top-scoring reports in annual pan-Army human resource inspections, which assured that the optimum service was being provided to the customer, maximising business performance.
• Administered 15+ international deployments (including 1000 personnel to operations in Afghanistan) minimising disruption to business as usual, while enabling the unit to deliver its key outputs.

Worthy Down, Winchester

• Military HR and finance planning and delivery course.
• Graded 1st out of 15 students.

Staff And Personnel Support Training School, Worthy Down, Winchester

• Planned, resourced and delivered an eleven week residential initial human resource training package to over 200 students, achieved through the management of a four person delivery team.
• Identified and implemented planning and delivery efficiencies which increased course throughput from 20 to 50 students per quarter within extant resource, while maintaining output quality and meeting the requirement.

1st Battalion Scots Guards, Munster, Germany

• Responsible to the senior human resource manager for the professional development and outputs of a team of 10 human resource specialists administering a unit of 600 soldiers.
• Deployed to Canada, Poland, and Iraq to assure human resources delivery to up to 1,500 soldiers within the operational environment. Provided manual pay and petty cash accounts, and mail and administrative support which.
• Delivered ORACLE HRM to the unit, including data transition from legacy systems, the implementation of user training and a post transition programme which enabled enduring data integrity and cultural change as the.

Worthy Down

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

• An intensive 48 week training package designed to develop and enhance leadership and management skills, tested under extremely testing conditions. The training also promotes logical thinking, complex problem solving.

Bachelor’S Degree, History, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Rowing

A-Levels, History (A), English Lit (A), Theology (A), Chemistry (C)