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Edinburgh, Gb

Responsible for technology strategy and delivery to the GroupM EMEA operating company, partnered to the senior leadership to define the technology need, align to global strategic imperatives, and cascade directives to local implementation owners. Accountable for service provision to 22,000 colleagues across multiple geographies, ensuring reliability of technology services to the Opco.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Providing management of all aspects of IT solutions and services. Ensuring alignment between the business unit Stakeholders and IT direction, investments and services; developing and nurturing strong win-win relationships, and accountable for all IT services into the business unit, from all parts of Global Information Systems.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Accountability for the engagement between IT and a specific HUK Business Unit, providing management of all aspects of IT solutions and services.Ensuring alignment between the Business Unit and IT direction, investments and services; developing and nurtures strong win-win relationships, and accountable for all IT services into the Business Unit, from all parts of GIS.Also managing a team of Project Managers and Business Analysts who work closely with Business Unit to successfully deliver projects.

London, United Kingdom

• Provision of business, process and technical expertise in all relevant areas as “Face to the business” for Commercial teams in the Great Britain Business Unit (GB BU). • Accountable for prioritizing and conflict resolution of the IT project portfolio for Commercial operations in GB.• Oversight of in-flight projects with a value between 50k Euro and up to 500K Euro per project• Effective management of the IT budget for Commercial portfolio.• Advise the business about new technologies and digitization.• “Contractual” counterpart for the business in terms of SLAs (quality and costs of services).• Accountable for challenging existing business practices and driving changes to technology enabled.• Business advocate within CCEP IT.• Accepted and valued partner to the business unit to fulfill the strategic role of CCEP IT.• Responsible for effective use of the IT budget in GB for Commercial initiatives.

Account manager and business interface for the field sales teams. Assessing business processes and managing the delivery on new applications and technical solutions in front line sales, marketing and commercial areas.• Process analysis• Project Management• Resource and budget management• Identifying innovation opportunities• Stakeholder Management

London, United Kingdom

Facilitating Agile project execution and developing SAP product requirements. Designed and delivered new SAP management of pallet stock for GB production sites.• Process Analysis• Agile team building and guidance• User story development and prioritisation• SAP Solution design• Change management

London, United Kingdom

Multi-role project manager and business analyst. planned and executed project to reduce software and infrastructure footprint by $3 million over 24 months.• Project planning and execution• Budget forecast and control• Resource management

Researcher, developer and technical support• Developing new software functionality• Team management• Delivering training and documentation

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Elected to the Committee which administers student societies at the University of Kent. This role has required me to perform duties including policy reviews, administrative decisions and disciplinary actions on behalf of more than 5,000 students across over 200 unique societies. I also jointly administered a discretionary budget of £5,000 on behalf of Kent Union.As part of a review body I led a restructure of this part of the charity, gathering views, expertise and presenting my findings to the charity. These changes are now being written into the charity's constitution.

Uxbridge

I performed bug, usability and stress testing of software as well as technical support for a significant part of CCE's efforts to confront the logistical challenges of the 2012 Olympic Games as well as translating business requirements into the technical requirements for an invitation to tender. My duties required that I quickly become aware of how the supply chain is managed and learned how to my role can be used to solve problems and facilitate its function.