Chris Ashton Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Strategic Planning and Transformation

United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Corporate Markets Portfolio Lead at Link Group. Accountable for Project Delivery across the Portfolio of Projects within the Corporate Markets business. Focus on Project Delivery Governance, prioritisation, business value, project risk. Reporting to Global Director of Project Delivery & EPMO. Role includes working with Senior and CXO Stakeholders in the formulation of Business Strategy and Technology based solutions that drive benefits to the business and Link Group clients. Also includes Information Security Risk Management.

Head of PMO at Link Group. (interim). Reporting to CIO (EMEA), responsible for the Project Management Office within the EMEA region.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Information Security Project Manager at Link Group. Project Manager responsible for the Delivery of Information Security tooling across Link Group businesses.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Experience includes but not limited to:Led the development and operational function of a HR specialist pension administration and payroll system solution for the provision of best practice pension scheme and payroll administration including, but not limited to, Lead & Project Management of all IT, Data and InfoSec related projects – HR Pensions, Benefits and Reward. Ensuring the provision of Information Assurance across the HR Pensions, Benefits and Reward teams. Input to SLT in respect of HR Transformation Programmes and Projects providing guidance on successful project outcomes, project structures, governance, risk and compliance. Reporting to the Director of Pensions, Benefits and Reward functions. Managing a team of 16 IT and pensions SMEs. Data Governance, Risk and Control, Information Security, Information Assurance, Audit (Pension, Benefits and Reward function). Developed and implemented a comprehensive Governance, Risk and Compliance approach relevant to the provision of pension systems administration. Documented and proactively managed all operational (people, process and technology) Information Security risks & issues, including but not limited to, the impact assessment and reporting of risks and provision of risk mitigation actions in the form of adherence to or introduction of InfoSec policy, employee education & training and technology solutions to ensure Information Security best practice. Project Manager for all technology and transformation projects within Pensions team. Project Managed the implementation of the Civica UPM2 pension administration system – full end-to-end project management using Prince 2/Agile approaches Oracle Fusion SME - Implementation of all pensions functionality and third party interfacesCommercial Software Management. Developed and monitored professional, commercial relationships with internal and external suppliers

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction. Emma Flynn Prize For Faculty Best Post Graduate Dissertation 2017.

Master’S Degree, Business Information Technology, Master'S Degree. Prize Awarded For Best Post Graduate Dissertation