Derek Jones

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Programme Manager | Project Manager | Agile Coach | PMO
Derek Jones's Location
Nuneaton, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Derek Jones

I am an experienced Project and Programme management professional, gained over many years in the public and private sectors. I have worked in small to global sized organisations, adapting my approach to best fit the environment that I am asked to work in. I have managed full project life cycle, in a combination of Agile and waterfall methods, adapting them or merging them, as appropriate. I have managed single projects, multiple projects, portfolios and programmes, and I have been responsible for the management of risk, planning and reporting, as well as the budget responsibility. I have developed, deployed and used a variety of project methods, including Prince 2. When needed I have been based in the UK, Europe, Africa and the US. I am comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels of an organisation, including senior stakeholders and third parties.

Derek Jones's Current Company Details

Programme Manager | Project Manager | Agile Coach | PMO
Derek Jones Work Experience Details
  • Deutsche Bank
    Change Office Lead - Talent Sourcing
    Deutsche Bank Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
    Reporting into Global Head of Talent Sourcing and Value Stream Lead, managing a team of 2 Analysts. Responsible for the management of global change and the IT book of work, within talent sourcing across EMEA, APAC and Americas. This work was delivered through Workday.• Using JIRA, managed the portfolio, which included all activity down to story.• Acted as JIRA SME and Agile Coach within Talent Sourcing.• Managed all reporting to management and ran the quarterly business review. • Designed and managed the change process, which managed the approval of all change in HR talent sourcing.
  • Deutsche Bank
    Technical Projects Lead
    Deutsche Bank Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
    Responsible for overseeing technical projects and integrations within Talent Sourcing across the company’s global jobsites, including coordinating with the global regions and 3rd party vendors to deliver technical solutions in recruiting and onboarding.• Responsible for managing the vendors, working with users to identify changes and manage defects through to completion. • Successfully implemented Sterling - Backcheck for the UK/Ireland and Europe areas, integrating it with Workday. Last year, upgraded it to Sterling’s latest platform.• Transitioned Talent Sourcing from the existing platform to Workday. Rolled this out across the globe and supported its embedding in the organisation. This ran from cutover through hypercare.• Managed the transition of Postbank candidate support into Workday as part of the onboarding of that organisation into the group.
  • Deutsche Bank
    Project Delivery Manager - Connect2Job
    Deutsche Bank Nov 2017 - Jul 2024
    Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Connect2Job was the bank's Internal Mobility platform. It was available to all employees and acted on their behalf to carry out intelligent searches through the job pool. In addition to the web-based application, a mobile App was developed to enhance the offer. This project was developed by a team of developers, along with a number of remote suppliers, across Europe and India, and was rolled out globally. Candidates were able to load their CV, the application extracting skills and running searches based in their profile.• My initial role was to manage an agile project that would deliver a mobile app to utilise the search tools available. This was successfully completed, on time. • Subsequent to this, I have been responsible for managing the Vendor, working with users to identify changes and manage defects through to completion. • I was also responsible for transitioning the tool from the existing HR System to Workday. • I have held this responsibility since starting with the Bank.
  • Deutsche Bank
    Programme Manager - Cwr Process Rationalisation And Yello Implementation
    Deutsche Bank Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
    Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Responsible to the Talent Sourcing Platforms Director, this was an 18-month programme to replace the existing platform for Graduate recruiting. Managed a team of 20 people across EMEA, APAC and the US, as well as the SaaS vendor, delivering annual savings of £1.5m.• Created the team, ran process rationalisation workshops, carried out the systems design, managed delivery, and global rollout. • Negotiated all contractual changes and managed the relationship with the vendor. • Oversaw the build of necessary integrations to the central HR system, Workday. • Used a mixture of waterfall and agile methods.
  • Land Securities
    Programme Coordinator
    Land Securities Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
    London, United Kingdom
    I took responsibility for the governance of a significant change programme. As well as working with the business leads on the overall move, I was responsible for all programme analysis, Risk and Issue management, Change management and planning. I reviewed Land Securities IT governance, creating and amending processes where necessary.
  • Landsec
    Project Manager
    Landsec Feb 2016 - May 2016
    London, United Kingdom
    Delivery of the upgrade to Office 365 Outlook and cloud based email services
  • Jaguar Land Rover
    Programme Office Lead
    Jaguar Land Rover Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
    Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
    This was a programme, based in SAP CRM, to deliver business change, within JLR, and to deliver increased value to its suppliers and customers. The programme and workstreams had been using an agile method but waterfall was introduced to increase the level of control. The changes were completed and the programme was delivered within business expectations. I became involved during testing and was responsible for working with JLR UK’s suppliers to deliver the testing phase.
  • Jaguar Land Rover
    Project Manager
    Jaguar Land Rover Apr 2012 - Jun 2014
    Whitley, Coventry
    I led the team that worked with the company's National Sales Centres to understand and develop the business case necessary to move the project forward. The result was the creation of an automated calculation of Dealer Incentives, significantly streamlining the existing process. In addition to the internal stakeholders, I was responsible for the relationship with the Vendor of the solution that would be used with SAP.
  • Jaguar Land Rover
    Portfolio And Project Manager
    Jaguar Land Rover Mar 2011 - Apr 2012
    Gaydon, United Kingdom
    My initial period, with JLR, was spent working in Finance based projects in the Sales and Marketing division. I also did some project management work with the After Sales teams, eventually being asked to be responsible for the IT delivery of the After Sales portfolio, with 4 project managers reporting to me. This included the organisation’s global warranty and servicing provision, prior to its inclusion within the overall SAP solution. Significant business stakeholder relationship management was a requirement, for this, helping them develop a strategy for the customer offer going into the future.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Programme Officer Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group Oct 2010 - Dec 2010
  • Learning And Skills Council
    Mog Programme Pmo
    Learning And Skills Council Aug 2009 - May 2010
    business and systems analysis, planning and inter-dependencies, report writing, change management, risk and issue management, budget management and forecasting (£6M), 3rd party supplier monitoring and work package agreement, OGC Gateway coordination, stakeholder meeting preparation and coordination, chairing progress meetings for a portfolio of 12 projects, project and programme assurance, programme governance, coordination with central government, reporting to programme boards, statistical analysis, RAID management.
  • Learning And Skills Council
    Programme Support Office Manager
    Learning And Skills Council Aug 2008 - Aug 2009
    Responsibilities: report writing, risk and issue management, budget coordination (£50M+), 3rd party supplier management, work package approval, OGC Gateway coordination, meeting preparation and coordination, coordination with central government, statistical analysis, line management (20 people), business process re-engineering, job specification, process improvement, recruitment, programme assurance, report coordination and monitoring.
  • The British Library
    Programme Manager
    The British Library Nov 2007 - May 2008
    Responsibilities: programme management across 3 organisations, business and systems analysis, planning and inter-dependencies, report writing, change management, risk and issue analysis and management, budget proposal, management and forecasting (£1.5M), 3rd party supplier management and contract negotiation, meeting preparation and coordination, chairing project progress meetings, coordination with US government, stakeholder management, workshop lead
  • Becta
    Asst Director
    Becta Feb 2006 - Sep 2007
    Responsibilities: business and systems analysis across all ICT Agencies and government departments responsible for education, high-level planning and inter-dependencies, writing and publishing of an ICT strategy to include all educational sectors, change management, risk and issue analysis and management, 3rd party supplier management (PwC and PA Consulting), meeting preparation and coordination, presenting to government and gaining authorisation, stakeholder management and partner coordination, workshop lead, writing ministerial briefings, development of governance and coordination bodies, planning of national conference, negotiation of Agency authority with government
  • Becta
    Project Manager - Web-Based Reporting
    Becta Mar 2005 - Apr 2006
    Responsibilities: project managed the development of a system to allow the Post-16 e-learning programme to gather its monthly Highlight reports and exception reports via the Internet, budget management (£50k), contractor recruitment and management, user training, partner coordination.
  • Becta
    Head Of Programme Office
    Becta Jul 2005 - Jan 2006
    Responsibilities: planning and inter-dependencies, change management, risk and issue analysis and management, 3rd party supplier management, stakeholder management and partner coordination, development of governance and coordination bodies, line management (6 people), recruitment, OGC Gateway coordination, process development, organisational change, Operating Board support, programme assurance, development of standards, RAID maintenance, change management.
  • Becta
    Programme Assurance Offficer
    Becta Jan 2005 - Aug 2005
    Responsibilities: high-level planning and inter-dependencies, risk and issue analysis and management, meeting preparation, stakeholder and partner coordination, workshop lead, writing ministerial briefings, development of governance and coordination bodies, change management.
  • Becta
    Programme Management Officer
    Becta Apr 2004 - Dec 2004
    Responsibilities: planning and inter-dependencies, change management, risk and issue analysis and management, development of governance, recruitment, OGC Gateway coordination, process development, programme assurance, development of standards, change management
  • Becta
    Project Manager
    Becta Jan 2004 - Mar 2004
    Responsibilities: worked with business users to identify and implement incremental changes to the ICT Advice web-site for schools.
  • Azlan Training
    Technical Manager
    Azlan Training Feb 1997 - Nov 2003
  • Dst International
    Operations Manager
    Dst International 1992 - 1997
    Created and managed the Operations team, responsible for all IT platforms, networks and client technical consultancy. Managed the technical integration of two other companies, through acquisition.
  • Premier Systems (London) Plc
    Senior Consultant
    Premier Systems (London) Plc 1989 - 1992

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