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Peterborough, GB

Burton Upon Trent, England, United Kingdom

Leading transformational change, enabling customer engagement through people, process and technology.

United Kingdom

Providing top-level consultancy, project, programme and change management for transformational business change projects.

Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom

Leading transformational change through people, process and technology.Managing 3rd Party Suppliers and RFI and RFP activities enabling development of the organisational IT roadmap

United Kingdom

Office 365 ProgrammeEncompassing Multi Factor Authentication, Mail Migration, Teams, Microsoft Licensing and Network ReadinessResponsible for all aspects of programme management to deliver enhanced and new business capabilities through people, process and technology, ultimately delivering the programme blueprint

Peterborough

Security Operations Centre Maturity ProgrammeDmarcian ProjectKnowledge and Information Management Tool ProjectService Management Tool Upgrade ProjectResponsible for all aspects of project, programme and business change management to deliver enhanced and new business capabilities through people, process and technology

Sleaford

Responsible for providing top-level consultancy, deploying operating models and driving performance.Outcome 1: A number of improvements were identified, including significant reductions to delivered order and product supply costs, as well as process improvements for operational practises realised through value stream mapping.Outcome 2: A new operating.

Acton, London

Financial services was a key enabler for future revenue growth and as a business change consultant, I was asked to run a strategic financial services compliance programme to enhance the governance, management and oversight across all UK & I activity, coupled with a focus on business and process changes required for a new insurance regulation.Reporting to.

Watford

During 2016, Wickes moved to set up and in-house I.T. team and move away from a Travis Perkins Group supported model. Reporting to the I.T. Business Change Director, this gave me the opportunity to join the team at ‘early start up’ and influence the strategic direction, project prioritisation and overall IT transformation plan working with Gartner.

UK, Field Based

Sales growth was an essential component of the Wickes 5 year plan and store expansion played a key part within this. Reporting to the Central Operations Director, my brief was to lead Wickes stores through the change and enable 1000 impacted colleagues to go on the expansion journey and engage with customer experience and sales growth in mind.This activity.

UK, Field Based

Store space utilisation needs and TP Group opportunities presented an initiative to set up concessions/store implants. I was asked to lead the retail teams and find a solution to enable trading of successful implants whilst managing the impact of the change on 600 Wickes colleagues. At the same time, I also had project management responsibilities for a new.

UK, Field Based

Working with Boston Consulting Group, opportunities were identified to go bigger with some product categories and an accelerated plan was created to land these into the business. I was asked to Project Manage the operational implementation.

UK, Field Based

Wickes was faced with the challenge to reduce labour % cost to sales and I was asked to lead a programme to identify the target operating model and business needs as a multi-channel retailer of the future. This role encompassed both Programme Management and Project Management responsibilities.

UK, Field Based

An opportunity to reduce end to end costs for bathroom products was identified, kick starting the biggest project Wickes had seen to date. I was initially seconded onto the project to support the Project Director with project initiation and planning and gained additional responsibility alongside this shortly afterwards, as the Project Manager for retail.

UK

Provided leadership for a new concept store, driving a customer focus with a team of 40 colleagues to deliver 1st year total sales in excess of the year 3 business case forecast, reporting to the Regional Manager. National awards won for performance against KPI's and Colleague Engagement.

UK, Field Based

A new payroll and scheduling system had been identified and I was asked to lead roll out plans for implementation and adoption of the new systems in stores. Reporting to the Programme Manager and Divisional Director, the role encompassed both project management and project support responsibilities.

Certificate In Construction

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