Dave Bason Email & Phone Number

Austrey, England, United Kingdom

Decided to retire and focus on family.

Nuneaton

Working in several senior interim roles within major blue chip organisations.

London, England & Zurich, Switzerland

• Supporting the ERP Products Division across commercial, legal and contractual matters. Working directly to the Divisional manager with specific responsibilities including:
• Responsible for managing the selection of an implementation partner for a $150m global SAP BPR program across more than 60 countries;
• Lead negotiator in creating the final contract including a unique commercial structure;
• Managing the commercial relationship with implementation partner and ensuring the adherence to the contractual demands;
• Partnering with other divisions including Legal, Procurement and TBS;
• Managing the creation of several global Master Service Agremeents with key Suppliers.

London, England, United Kingdom

• UK based Managing Consultant for one of the World’s leading Technology and Advisory organisations, a Global sourcing advisory and consultancy practice operating with large corporates around the world (40% of the.
• Role as negotiation specialist managing the renegotiation of a 2nd generation outsource contract providing development and maintenance support for all critical systems in a DevOps envinronment.
• Produced a revised contract of enhanced scope, at less than previous costs and reducing price by more than £8m.Takeda (July 2015 – July 2017)
• Responsible for the contract negotiation process managing 12 suppliers. Appointing a single provider for Application Maintenance and a panel of 6 to provide Application Development.
• Creating a legacy set of bencjhmark data for the client to use in ole as negotiation specialist managing the renegotiation of a 2nd generation outsource contract providing development and maintenance support for all.
• Created a parameter driven pricing mechanism encompassing more than 1700 applications

Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

Corby, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Wolverhampton & Coventry

• Part of the SAP Programme team supporting the launch of the new Engine Manufacturing Centre(EMC) in Wolverhampton. Constructing delivery plans for the 3rd Party SI and subsequent management of the SI team.
• Project Managing the delivery of changes to the core SAP system (Turbo) supporting the stabilisation of the critical Accounts Payable processes.
• Project Manager for the delivery of an SAP solution to replace a legacy system supporting the purchase of raw materials critical to the manufacturing process. This system controls £100s of millions of purchases across.
• Management of a critical 3rd party supplier to the SAP Programme. Responsible for supplier resource planning and relationship management.
• Part of the SAP Programme Snr Project Management team

Manchester

• Commercial and contractual support for large software licence deal
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of an innovative contractual and commercial construct to engage with SI supporting a major Business Transformation Programme,
• Undertaking a full selection lifecycle for a large hosting solution resulting in the adoption of the latest Cloud services.
• Managing a small team of consultants to benchmark the cost of IT, outline a sourcing strategy and advise on areas for cost reduction and strategic direction.
• General support for JDW procurement staff providing expert advice and guidance
• Delivered benefits to client in excess of £10m

London, England, United Kingdom

• Client: CLS – operates world’s largest multi-currency cash settlement service to mitigate FX settlement risk, trading the equivalent of $5 trillion a day.
• Part of a 2 man team to provide a detailed understanding of CLS’s current IT operating model and the IBM infrastructure and application relationship; compare with alternative approaches and identify cost and.
• Assessed service delivery models, benchmarked baseline costs, and proposed high level alternative operating model and recommended a sourcing and renegotiation strategy.
• Our analysis and recommendations identified upwards of 20% on IT operating costs and approx. 30% on the IBM 10 year/£500 million contract
• We have produced a set of recommendations for a revised sourcing strategy and an approach to restructuring CLS’s relationship with IBM

London

• Design and implementation of an Intelligent Sourcing function for managing IT suppliers within John Lewis IT
• Managing the full selection lifecycle for new systems supporting the transformation of the IT landscape
• Design and implementation of new sourcing processes
• Commercial negotiations, contract reviews
• Design and creation of mechanism for monitoring and managing performance of suppliers
• Mentor for john Lewis resource and providing expert advice and guidance

UK

• How the digital age is transforming the 8 fundamental dimensions of a law firm management
• Demystifying the innovations and advances in technology that are enabling this transformation.

Birmingham

• Contracting through Just You limited
• Acting head of IT, liaising with Caparo Board, managing all IT staff, project team and 3rd party consultants
• Responsible for contractual discussions on ERP project(Infor) and all IT related decisions
• Managing initial stages or ERP implementation merging 21 companies over 32 sites onto common platform
• Transformation of architecture, implementing cloud based infrastructure
• Implementation of new highly resilient company wide MPLS network and Intranet

Northampton

• Responsible for all aspects of IS leadership and control within an expanding UK top-30 law firm
• Appointed as IS Director spearhead delivery of business-critical IS to up to 1200+ staff across 9 locations
• Focused on driving business value and agility through adoption of enhanced IT solutions and architecture
• Definition and execution of an IS strategy, aligning technology and solutions with business objectives
• Provision of IS to support legal services including corporate & commercial services and volume operations
• Leadership, management and motivation of a multi-functional team of up to 49+ systems and support staff

Egham

• Responsible for delivery of SAP support services to a portfolio of organisations & key account clients
• Appointed as Service Delivery Manager within a leading SAP consultancy with sites in UK, Malaysia & US
• Client-facing role, working closely with major clients including The AA, Thistle Hotels, NRS and LaFarge
• Full P&L management responsibility for the profitability and revenue generation from support contracts
• Leadership, management & control of a multi-functional team of Consultants, both on-shore & off-shore
• Assists clients in exploiting SAP potential, evolving through an ongoing process of continuous improvement

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

B Sc 2.1 Hons, Physics

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