Hemashu Patel Email & Phone Number

Slough, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Orchestrated and directed a multifaceted program with the MLS (Major League Soccer), spearheading cross-functional teams to drive product and commercial success, resulting in $11.5m in total (retained / new) revenue in 2023.Played a pivotal role in navigating the complexities of contract renegotiation with the MLS amidst evolving macroeconomic landscapes, resulting in a $40 million reduction in fees over an 8-year contract term.Implemented a robust governance framework across the football project portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment and optimizing decision-making.Provided strategic direction and delivery guidance to an acquired business unit, steering decision making on its path to profitability.Supervised and empowered a team of snr project managers tasked with delivering an array of initiatives, fostering a collaborative environment conducive to innovation and achievement.

Slough, England, United Kingdom

Led KP Snacks’ Brexit mitigation programme, overseeing multiple critical workstreams dedicated to safeguarding operational continuity during Brexit cutover – successfully ensuring uninterrupted production and outbound shipping from 7 UK manufacturing sites.Managed the formulation and execution of business cases for a diverse range of Group-wide procurement initiatives, encompassing areas such as travel and mechanical handling equipment. Contributed to the successful delivery of these initiatives, driving efficiency and cost-effectiveness across the organization.Managed two project workstreams, namely Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Hire-to-Retire (H2R), as part of a cross-country ERP rollout initiative. Collaborated with business subject matter experts (SMEs) and a 3rd-party vendor to implement robust systems and drive effective business transformation.Supporting various other Group wide procurement initiatives from business case stage to implementation

London, United Kingdom

Consultant Planner for the Client Services Onboarding programme within the Ring Fenced Banking Portfolio. Working with the project team to develop and maintain the programme plan.Working with programme leads and other senior management stakeholders to develop and deliver plan reporting outputsWorking within the planning framework to provide weekly input to a portfolio wide reporting processSupporting creation of plan related inputs for SteerCo meetings.Providing support and upskilling LBG plannersSupporting central planning function with data analysis and troubleshooting.

London, United Kingdom

Providing consultancy on governance and reporting controls at Group and Portfolio level. Providing guidance and training for Project and Programme Managers. Providing reporting insight for Portfolio Directors - including status reporting, plan reporting, dependencies, risks and issues. Assisting with the improvement and alignment of the change management framework.

London, United Kingdom

UK project portfolio review and optimisation - short term engagement to review of 150+ initiatives and align to strategic objectives to create a number of optimised portfolio scenarios. Deeper dive into two large scale programmes to provide high level analysis on resource profile, structure and overall health of delivery.

London

Set up and running of a business PMO for the Ring Fencing and Resolution Programme within Group Operations. Strong focus on budget control and business case development for on-going funding of the programme Support of resource planning/ forecastingDeveloping and implementing governance structures, RAID management, change management, project reporting

Solihull, England

Jaguar Landrover (Solihull, West Midlands)Material Flow project manager. Managing the deployment of a line side replenishment solution and associated infrastructure across multiple sites.Working with senior business stakeholders from the outset to define requirementsManaging the third party supplier (Zebra Technologies) to deliver a solution to meet the requirementsManaging all testing activity - UAT, Regression and Performance testingDetermining process change and managing the delivery of training requirementsClosely controlling scope of the project - two new sites and additional infrastructure (wifi installation across two 'market place' areas) deployment added to scope via change controlManaging the roll out of mobile devicesManaging service transition

Paddington, London

Unilever Account (Katowice, Poland)Managing a team to deliver cross-regional performance testing for the deployment of a Transport Management System.Coordinating UAT Providing programme governance consultancy and implementing controls, including RAID, change and dependency management, planning and reporting.BP Account (Stockley Park)Developing a business case for the role out of an online backup solution across BP's international 60,000 strong user base.Working/ negotiating with a third party supplier (HP - Autonomy) to build a suitable licensing profileDetermining how the solution would be implemented and supported once in service(The business case was approved and passed on for delivery)

Barclays AccountManaging the implementation phase of a project offshoring the Medium Business Monitoring and Control process to India, through the deployment of a Siebel process flow.Creating test scripts and managing the User Acceptance Testing phase. Working with an offshore application development team to manage defect resolutionEngaging with the business to agree and coordinate implementation activityLeading Project Board and Steering Group meetings to provide high level progress reports to the business, senior stakeholders and project sponsorsRBS AccountProviding PMO expertise and support for an RBS divestment programImplementing and controlling various governance and joint governance procedures – e.g. change control, risk and issue management and joint closure process.Analysing and validating program spend to date to assist the Program Director with funding decisions. Creating a resource and cost forecasting tool to capture information on resource requirements and costs for the remainder of the program. Creating, analysing and quality assuring project reports for Senior Management.Working with the client managing a workstream delivering separation of physical data.

Fujitsu Services have been contracted to manage a number of Government Departments' IT requirements. Projects - Desktop & Laptop rollouts/ upgrades, Enterprise Management rollout, DDA app installations. Technologies - MS SCCM/ SCOM, various DDA applications. End to end delivery of IT service solutions to a number of central government departments.Managing a portfolio of 'small' projects (<£50k)Managing large, complex projects (up to £300k)Engaging customer and internal stakeholdersRemotely managing resources across the UK to deliver projects.

Fujitsu Services have been contracted to Transform and Manage Crossrail's IT Infrastructure. A complex Service Transformation, increasing my breadth of knowledge. Projects - Implementation of Service Delivery Tools (Service Catalogue, Incident/ Problem management procedures)Technologies - SourceIT, TRIOLE for Service (Internal FJ solutions)Working within an ITIL conformant framework alongside Service Architects to propose, develop, design and implement components of the Service solution.Engaging customer and internal stakeholdersLeading requirements workshops to validate scope.Remotely managing resources across the UK to deliver functionality for the client and for Fujitsu Service Delivery Managers.Managing Risk and Issues for solution components.Managing Testing and Service Introduction requirements for solution componentsCommunication Planning for solution implementation.

Fujitsu Services are contracted to manage PwC UK's IT infrastructure. A fast paced and challenging role on the PwC account, during which I have managed multiple projects simultaneously.Projects - Server Implementation and Application DeploymentTechnologies - SUN, HP, Cisco, ESX, BMC Patrol, EMC, SolarisFull Project Life Cycle management of multiple projects simultaneously.Managing a portfolio of infrastructure projects with a combined value of between £0.5m - £1.5m.Stakeholder management - including extensive planning and coordination with the customer, 3rd parties and other internal teams.End to end governance of projects - including leading steering group meetings, highlight reporting and exception reporting. Risk, issue and change management.Resource forecasting to ensure availability to suffice tasks in project plans.Managing, for project purposes, multiple teams of people with various specialist skills.Financial reporting against proposed budgets.Providing cover for the Programme Manager.Whilst on the PwC account I was selected to participate in a 'High Potential' scheme, which recognises the advances that I have made within the Programme and Project management community. 30 individuals were selected from a total of 960 in the community to participate in this scheme.Main Project:PwC Netherlands Notes ImplementationRevenue: £4m+CAPEX Controlled: £300kResource Expenditure Controlled: £350k Objective: To implement the required infrastructure to migrate and host the PwC Netherlands' Notes server estate.Role: I was in charge of the implementation of 20 physical servers and 8 switches. Challenging timeframes, with numerous risks and issues to manage. Management of internal teams and third party suppliers.

Fujitsu Services were the Local Service Provider for the South East, implementing a computer based system for the NHS. A demanding role within the Sussex Deployment team, which provided a good footing in Project ManagementSupporting the Programme Manager and the five Deployment Project Managers the on the NHS Account Sussex Deployment team.Ensuring the collation and submission of weekly reports, as well as aiding Project Manager with PHR reporting and Financial reporting.Provided support on issue/ defect management liaising with both the customer and supplier and providing updated to management. Administrator of a number of Sharepoint sites, managing access to important build documents for NHS deployments.Designed a weekly project KPI dashboard which was used by the PMs and Programme Director.Worked on two successful deployment project go-

An Industrial Trainee position, working in the PMO and the Applications Support team on the NHS Account.6 months of work in the Project Management Office (BMO).Helped to create and maintain a resource database working closely with the director of the PMO.6 months of work in the Application Support team.Designed, created and maintained a database to manage and monitor the training requirements of the Application Support team.

Bsc (Hons) Managerial Studies, Managerial Studies

Hons, Business Studies; Geography

Apr 2010 ITIL Foundation Oct 2008 Prince2 Practitioner Accreditation & APM Introduction Certificate 2002 - 2006 Aston University - Aston.

Education record

GCSEs obtained: 4 As, 3 Bs and 2 Cs - Mathematics, A; English Language, C