Searchlight is an independent consultancy focused on building business capabilities and leveraging technology to drive transformation. As businesses evolve they often outgrow their operating platforms – their processes, organisation and the technology which supports them. With cloud technologies providing both opportunity and need to evolve existing operating models. While business applications are becoming increasingly pervasive, these technologies must enable improvement and not hinder strategy. Through aligning interventions and investment to business objectives, and making informed decisions, organisations are able to harness business technology to deliver value. We are experts in bringing clarity of purpose, direction - setting companies on the right path. Working in partnership with our clients across Retail, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Travel & Hospitality and Media, we transform business performance at pace, by prioritising and delivering the appropriate technology-enabled capabilities to support growth and deliver improvements. We bolster our clients’ teams to determine what is needed to enable growth/improvement, and how to harness the potential of information and business technologies. Crucially, we stay with them to deliver their unique set of changes. By reducing implementation risk, unlocking the value of business technology, organisations can realise expected benefits and deliver ROI. Leading the Searchlight business and supporting select successful clients to even better align their IT strategy to their business strategy, and supporting Boards deliver that change by a combination of M&A and digital business transformation. Supported clients to define their Digital & Enterprise Solution (eCommerce, ERP, CRM, BI, Integration platforms) Strategy, M&A due diligence, managing selection of SI's, delivery of country/global/pan European programmes, typically enabled by SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor, NetSuite, Unit4, Salesforce and DellBoomi.

Leading a number of initiatives, underpinned by technology & business change, in support of the clients strategic goals.

Project and Programme management on client engagements ~ specialising in IT enabled business transformation initiatives.

Leading the global team as they integrate their business onto an Oracle Cloud solution.

Interim senior management role for a Global Oracle Finance (Cloud) implementation.

Leading the client team as they design and then implement their target operating model. This will include the delivery of, and transition to, a globally available cloud based service offering.

Senior project manager supporting the stabilisation of one of the first Oracle global supply chain, cloud transformation programmes.

Project managed the delivery, testing, phased deployment and post go-live transition to customer and partner support teams, of a new mobile application, for this well known high street coffee shop chain.Project managed the initiation and design stage of a ‘Click and Collect’ capability for customers, building on the newly deployed loyalty mobile application.

Successfully project managed the full lifecycle delivery of a retail business solution and business change elements, of a business transformation programme, providing a scalable platform, for the client - fast growing online retailer.

Working as client side Project manager, to help assure delivery of an SAP Trade Sales Management solution.Project manager engaged as a part of the regional deployment team for the United Kingdom and Ireland, delivering the GSK CERPS Global SAP template. Retained to manage and expedite the resolution of a number of issues with a separate solution.

Senior client Project Manager for the Mobilisation and Blueprint stage of a Global (5 country, 8 site) SAP implementation, with the objective of introducing standard business processes underpinned by an enterprise ERP and manufacturing solution

Project Management of a selection of projects, for this specialist consultancy.

Project manager engaged as a part of the regional deployment team for France, Belgium and Luxemburg, delivering the GSK CERPS Global SAP template.

Project managed to define and manage, the Service Definition and Transition activities for a major integrated SAP CRM (Loyalty) programme, for the popular Boots Rewards card.

Responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of SAP and Retail system projects.

Project Management of SAP based solution releases. Technical Programme management of marketing solution.

Project Manager and Principal Consultant.

SAP Consultant (Sales & Distribution)Siebel CRM consultantConsulting client engagements across a variety of sectors, including; FMCG, Manufacturing, A&D, Insurance, Banking.Assisted in establishing online SAP helpdesk.