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Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Delivering Business Change to Blue Chip Organisations

London

Supporting the business transformation aimed at increasing case velocity by insourcing core skills whilst repositioning Third Party Service Providers.Reviewed and the contracts with the external legal, prepared the negotiation strategy which lead to a saving of £250k.

King'S Lynn, England, United Kingdom

SAP Business One documented 'To-Be' processes for OTC, P2P, RTR, Recruitment, staff onboarding Implemented the principles of Data Mesh to address Data integrity to support Magento ecommerce platform.To address legacy pricing project managed introduction of the new Trade Terms pricing model

London, England, United Kingdom

Reporting to the CIO, Delivery of the Data Strategy, Data Definitions, Report Catalogue, Smart Data Partnership, Self-Service reporting, Operational reporting using Power BI. Preparation for a new MDM toolset collation of "As Is" and definition of the "To Be" requirements. Development of a revised Data Model to support Cloud computing and the options presented.

Reading, United Kingdom

Developed the B2B go to market strategy and the commercial framework for a new application which combines the Point of Purchase with promotions reusing the principles of Hyper Personalisation.Global Account Management to Autinos Major Accounts in automotive sectorSupporting Business Development to establish potential International clients identifying a pipeline of £81.5m over five years. Prioritised the pipeline to focus on opportunities in; New Zealand, USA and Germany.Head of Projects: Implementation of an integrated solution to a Rapid Fit business in the; UK, Germany and Australia.Response to RFQs negotiated contracts values at $5m over three years in two continents Implementation of revised working practices to facilitate the development and implementation of consumer facing applications

Farnbrough

* End to End programme.project leadership, planning and scoping the project deliveries, resource forecasting and management.* Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, Implementing the principles of DevOps to accelerate the delivery of a 7,800 man day Global R&D programme. * initiated the Change Programme the scope Sales/Regional engagement, software and hardware for SaaS delivery to Tier 1 Insurance providers.* Programme delivery to support Software as a Service (SaaS) to tier 1 insurance companies

Farnborough

Client Facing Role, including planning, scope and delivery Reporting the Chief Customer Director.* Programme Managed the delivery of a 5,200 man day project to provide a hosted rating platform for motor Insurance (Broker and Direct) for a tier one UK General Insurance company.• Delivery of the Blueprint, creation of the baseline project plan, client reporting, maintenance of the RAID log, billing and activity reporting to the client and SSP’s project board.• Defined the application delivery timetable, testing approach, orchestration of the clients UAT, Problem recognition, triage and resolution.

Fareham

Planning the UK General Insurance migration of 1,317 servers, 675 applications and a mainframe responsible for:• Creation of the baseline Move Groups mapping the applications to servers, defining the best fit.• Preparation of the test strategy.• Working with Group (Switzerland) to define the migration processes• Project Managing the implementation of the moving of the Strategic Applications

Farnborough

Supporting the integration of an acquisition targeted at expanding Zurich’s presence in the SME sector responsible for:• Creation of the integration plan to ensure a successful integration of the acquisition • Project Managing the preparation of activities to launch a new product in October• Project Managing the implementation of the due diligence requirements

London, United Kingdom

Launching Total Marketing Support reporting to the Managing Director, Finance and Commercial Directors creation of a new business capability to provide an outsourced service to a major FMCG client in 33 European countries, responsible for all the back office capabilities.• Company Secretarial - Incorporation of the company with Companies House. • Implementation of SAP to support financial and group reporting.• Implementation of the SaaS Transaction system• VAT registration in 24 countries• Implementation of Supply Chain Financing, • With HR supported the creation of the employment framework in 9 countries

Woking

* Award winning Global Treasury team, Programme Managed the implementation of Treasury applications and processes that are generating annual savings in excess of $20m per annum* Americas: Engaging with the Regional Change programme to integrate four programmes into a single Regional delivery.* Asia: Structured the programme to be self funding, using the Request for Proposal to deliver benefits from day one* Africa: Structured an 18 country, two year deployment of a Regional Treasury Centre and Bank Rationalisation to be self funding after 6 months* Europe: Programme managed an award winning implementation of a Regional Treasury Centre and Banks Rationalisation for 13 countries in 14 months. Upgraded the Treasury Management system IT2

Staines

Project Managed* Insurance Premium Tax increase for all of BUPA's products. Corporate book changed the Point of Sale providing a £39m cash flow advantage * Email collection of 2.5m e-mail addresses from internal and external websites cleansed the data to obtain 500k valid addresses for customers who had opted in to ensure regulatory compliance* Pilot of a revised pricing strategy for the Corporate book valued at £700m, Project aims to reduce price erosion arising from clients requesting an Invitation to Tender

Programme & Project Management, * Call Centre £3.5m technology refresh. * New Market sector compliance.* Agile Process Capability * RRP for Electronic Data Management

Practices to support e-commerce platform 800k users* Defined Project Structure* Prepared Briefing Paper* Obtained Stakeholder endorsement Activities included; preparation of the Project Plan, Project definition reports, Work Break Down Structure, Creation of the risk Matrix, Management of the risk and Issue log, Stakeholder analysis, preparation of the engagement material, weekly project reporting.

Programme Manager responsible for the delivery of £4.5m Programme* Definition of businesss Requirements* 18 Month rolling programme* Interface with Cemtral IT * Launched Service Improvement ProjectActivities include; Preparation of the Programme, Definition of the Projects, Management of Risks, Stakeholder Management, Financial management, activity tracking and reporting.

Member of Business Transformation team tasked with increasing the turnover from £350m to £850m in three years without increasing the cost base. Responsible for delivery of the enabling technology.* Replaced all of the Infrastructure for 2,500 users, 30 servers, undertook two Data Centre moves* Defined Fixed price contracts to address the Technology Risk* Jointly managed with IBM the second delivery of WebSphere Process Server* Programme managed 16 enabling projects, delivered to a demanding timetable* Co-ordinated with the central PMO the migration of the data centre* Addressing issue of a small business unit interfacing into a large centralised IT function demanding common processes and practices.

Sun Microsystems, Business Objects and Experian – January - October 2005* Developed a new tool for Category Management to support micro marketing based upon postcodes and store catchments Project Managed with Sun, Business Objects and Experian the creation of a new application.Marley Plumbing & Drainage March – April 2005* Sales & Operations Planning Development of business case, Process mapped the Supply Chain, Prepared recommendations. Farrow & Ball Wallpaper and Paint producers May – August 2004* Preparation for Trade Sale Process Mapped all business activities to support the sale of the businessJohnson & Johnson – March – September 2004 * Business Case and Presentation for Pan European Sales and Operations planning Gallaher Tobacco June/July 2004* Sales and Operations Planning defined the interface and information flows between Sales and Manufacturing

Camberley, England, United Kingdom

Member of the European management team accountable for the delivery of business programmes annual programme value £6m.Implemented Pan European S&OP which reduced the Finished Goods inventory holding by $230m over a three year periodImplemented a PRINCE2 based Project Management capability supported by MSProject and Planview.Developed IS Strategy for Product Supply which supported the implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems.Developed the IS Strategy for the Front Office which enabled the European Region to reduce the number of Sales applications from 29 to 2. Seconded to the European Sales team to develop the Front Office strategy following the recognition of a €45million pricing exposure.

Camberley, England, United Kingdom

Member of the UK management team which achieved a business turnaround. Project Managed the UK Y2K project to provide common Pan European Business Processes for Demand Generation and Demand Fulfilment.

East Midlands Electricity, Project managed the implementation of hand held meter reading to support collective reading on behalf of; British Gas, East Midlands Electricity and Thames Water. Changed the working practices for 450 staff, including “start from home”.Whyte and Mackay, Project managed the integration of a £450million acquisition, merged the ERP suite, Implemented common production planning tools. From announcement to a single enterprise took six months. Developed their IT strategy elements of which are in use today 2010.Hanson PLC, Project Managed the implementation of an Integrated ERP suite for a £100m subsidiary, performed the system selection, managed the tendering process, defined the bespoke requirements, implemented the integrated suite.

American Brands – Whyte and Mackay, redesigned the business Processes for New Product Development, Supply Chain, and Sales Force deal management. Ran processes mapping workshops, defined success criteria, implemented the new business processes. Digital UK - Project Managed the creation of a new business Service based upon a customer Oriented service model. Solution was deployed with Willis Caroon, Barclays Bank, Midland Bank, British Gas and Unilever creating incremental revenue of £25m per annum.Digital UK - Project Managed the redesign of the Service definition process, taking manufacturing principles and applying these to Service definition, re-defined the service selling model, the engineering delivery mechanism for 3,000 engineers.East Midlands Electricity - Developed business cases to support de-regulated businesses, created three businesses of between £25m and £100m. Project Managed the creation of these businesses, selecting the management team, definition of the commercial model and provision of the business Processes and ERP suite. ERP System Selections for; Colorol, Wyco, Hanson PLC, Harris &; Edger.

Closure of Enfield and migration of the production unit to Nottingham.Won the award for Technical excellence from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers for the implementation of JIT from the Automotive industry to Armaments.Designed and developed a costing system to support Royal Ordnance's bid to be a prime contractor,

Responsible for the production of the monthly accounts, Implemented an integrated; Sales, Purchase and Nominal ledgers