Ed Damant Email & Phone Number

Guildford, GB

Woking, Surrey, GB

The IT Trustee is a part time voluntary role providing strategic oversight and advice on LinkAble's digital transformation programme, challenging, where needed, the Senior Leadership Team and IT company to ensure successful outcomes. This is a new position reflecting LinkAble's commitment to significantly improve their IT infrastructure and bring greater.

London, GB

• Cross divisional, strategic IT single point of contact for UK senior leadership across the entire IT landscape, owning the IT strategy and delivery roadmap for the country and shaping global delivery to ensure it meets.
• Through gaining Country Leadership’s attention and buy-in on the risks and need for associates to take more responsibility, led a major cross organisation focus on cyber security resulting in improved performance and a.
• Delivered key global foundations and channels for digital enablement of customer engagement (Master Data Management, Move to Global Core CRM, Data lake migration, Salesforce Marketing Cloud).
• Created IT Country Squad for UK, as a Europe early adopter, to align all IT players to UK priorities and market needs, and to oversee all local Mergers & Acquisitions.
• Led the review of country IT "watch areas" across major markets in Europe. Americas and AsiaPac to ensure consistency and single voice in country feedback to IT Leadership Team.
• Short-term assignment as Global lead coordinating IT response to the US 3-year Business technology roadmap. Full review across Commercial landscape working with Tech Product Leads and Commercial Business Lead ahead of.

London, GB

• Accountable for IT Service delivery to 1,000 associates mainly focused on commercial activities. IT community lead ensuring integration with the business and fostering a positive environment for all UK based IT.
• Led UK delivery of global digital and data initiatives (Core CRM, Data Lake, Master Data Management, HCP and Patient Portals, Marketing Automation, Digital Asset Management), representing the voice of the customer.
• Created UK Country roadmap for all global commercial IT enabled initiatives (approx $10m investment). Chaired monthly prioritisation sessions with business leads, driving enterprise portfolio mindset and local.
• Established a group 20+ business tech advocates to shape the working environment and culture for smart working and be early adopters of new tech-based tools (focus on MS Teams and M365 apps ).
• Elected as a change leader for relocation of Company HQ. Active and authentic leader in supporting associates through the move including preparing associates for hybrid working (office and home).
• IT Lead for Global Digital Office funded innovation project to evaluate opportunities for voice solutions for Healthcare professionals (HCPs). First agile project in country.

London, GB

Single IT point of contact for Commercial functions across Pharma, Eyecare and Generics businesses in UK and Ireland, around 600 associates. Responsible for translating business objectives into a “state of the art” Commercial IT Strategy. Partner and advocate within the Commercial IT function for all Commercial IT Services (Projects, Investments and.

London, GB

• Responsible for IT service and project delivery to over 400 associates, coordinating resources across local and global service providers. Key achievements:
• IT lead to establish and run Regional BI Governance team.
• Programme Manager for Veeva / iPad implementation leading a cross functional team deploying iPads, Veeva CRM, new digital selling tools and change management of moving to iPad only for field based teams. Delivered.
• Regional lead for new global Commercial KPI model discovery phase.
• IT lead for major Internet initiative in General Medicines putting digital at the heart of the new commercial model through an online 1:1 relationship model to GPs.
• Project lead to define 3 year CRM capabilities strategy, ahead of major systems refresh.

London, GB

Undertook CIO role for six months alongside existing role. Responsible for project and operational delivery of IT service to 700+ associates. Directly responsible for a team of 16 IT associates, and total IT budget of over £5m. Completed UK budget submission for 2010 and closed out 2009 within 0.4% of budget.

London, GB

Dual role for 18 months as programme manager for UK & Ireland implementation of major IT infrastructure outsourcing project. Led multi-disciplinary team consisting of HR, Legal, Purchasing and IT infrastructure, responsible for local implementation of global outsourcing to four strategic vendors; scope 14 sites and multiple UK and Ireland businesses.

London, GB

• Responsible for a team of six internal IT staff supplemented with external consultants undertaking development, operations and support of Novartis' CRM systems. Key achievements:
• Global IT Award winner for External Focus for Implementation of an innovative UK Business Model built around Key Accounts.
• Led review of account planning process to focus on critical account information delivering greatest business impact.
• IT lead on cross functional team to implement an innovative, account based business model.
• Expansion of CRM into Medical department through delivery of Medical Inquiry handling capability.
• Project Manager for Siebel 6 to 7 upgrade, entire project delivered in 5 months, including remote deployment.

London, GB

• Responsible for a phased Siebel implementation to 170 Field Associates, and 150 Head Office Associates. Key achievements:
• Implementation of Siebel ePharma Sales and Business Objects sales reporting solution to 550 users, mostly field based.
• Lead for Requirements gathering including end user workshops, steering meetings, user groups.Project Manager responsible for IT systems in Marketing. Key Projects: Selection of a new Business Intelligence tool as the.

North Ryde, AU

Project Manager for Web Development across full project life cycle. Projects included first customer application of Lotus Sametime in the world. Established and then managed Web Development team.

North Ryde, AU

Project Leader and Main Developer for Web/Workgroup Development. Key Projects: Launch of BOC Company-wide global intranet, Technology Plans Project, Review of global BOC Notes application service.

North Ryde, AU

Workgroup Applications Developer using Lotus Notes R3/R4

North Ryde, AU

Mba, Dissertation: Knowledge Management

Beng, Civil Engineering