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Newark, England, United Kingdom

Contracts to Lead major Transformation Programmes at Morrisons, Dixons Carphone, Senoble (EtC), Fletchers Bakeries plus short term assignments at Moy Park, Bunches and a number of confidential assignments covered by NDA

Acton

Leading the Programme of '2 into 1' for Dixons Carphone to consolidate into a single technology stack and business process for the Dixons Carphone Group fueling £200m overall cost saving to fund Transformation of the Carphone Warehouse and Currys brands

Newark

The most challenging yet rewarding project I have ever led ! Bespoke oak frame build for my family's 'forever' home. Fully designed and onsite PM delivering for the toughest customer to time, cost and quality! Just love the result which will live with me for the rest of my life.

London

Responsible for delivery of all MIS Solutions (Infrastructure, Security, Manufacturing Apps (SAP), Engineering Applications and all supporting Business Systems (HR/Finance/Procurement/Facilities)) for greenfield £130m 'Super Site' (Manufacturing & PLC HQ) at Ansty Park opening in Q4 2019

Acton

• Leading strategic direction and delivery of IT solutions for all Back Office functions (Finance/HR/Procurement) post merger for £10.6bn Electrical and Telecomms retailer
• Portfolio head for strategic direction and delivery of SAP Hana, Ariba and Success Factors (integrating to Reflexis Workforce Management platform)
• Commercial Lead with SAP driving relationship for ‘2 into 1’ implementation roadmap moving to core SAP solutions where vanilla offering fulfils business need
• Reporting into CIO leading relationships with Board sponsors in Finance/Procurement/Retail/HR
• Driving portfolio with senior business stakeholders architecting long term landscape adding value and reducing TCO
• Delivered successful pilot implementation of ‘MyHub’ Success Factors to Corporate functions prior to Roll Out to Retail 28000 colleagues, and ‘T:App’ Reflexis to 20000 Currys/PC World colleagues for scheduling, time.

Full leadership and accountability, within plc implementation of Oracle software, for the definition, design, development and deployment of an 'end to end' system and process solution, for all 5 Morrisons manufacturing subsidiaries (Produce, Woodhead Brothers, Farmers Boy, Rathbones, Seafood - 18 sites)Business Leader delivering business benefits (£10m pa).

Contract to manage the deployment of Groupe Senoble systems to Elisabeth the Chef. Full implementation of JDE, Futurmaster and IBM outscourced architecture.

Responsible for the outsourcing of the IT function and the full life cycle management of the project to install Lawson M3 to 4 UK wide bakery businesses within fixed timescale. Worldwide first implementation of Lawson Smart Client, Lawson Business Intelligence utilising 'Quick Step' approach to 400+ business users within 6 months.

Heading up Project Darwin I led the implementation of a common ERP solution to 22 Bakkavor businesses together with critical business process improvement and alignment.Never behind schedule or budget my project teams added significant value to the Group companies in this 'biggest ever' Groupwide project for the £1.2bn Food organisation.

• Appointed Financial and Commercial head to ensure exploitation of systems to support effective finance and business practice. Ontime delivery of £7m SAP implementation to 800 users covering core business operations:
• Sales & Distribution, Service Management & Project Systems, Finance & Costing, Human Resources, Materials Management

Responsible for development of the Terms of Business to minimise risk exposure, maximise margins, safeguard legal position, and ensure flexibility to promote business development

Pgce, Primary Education

Ba Hons, 1St Class, Accounting & Business Administration