James Carne Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, Gb

London, Gb

Part of the leadership team at BAE Systems Ad Astra Programme, focused on the setup and business case approval for a transformational S/4HANA Central Finance (CFIN) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Programme. Focused on establishing managing commercial activities, PMO capabilities and contributing to strategic planning.

London, Greater London, Gb

UK Power Networks delivers electricity to 8.3m homes and business across London, the east and south east of England forming part of the UK Critical National Infrastructure.Led the Office of the CIO (OCIO) as a member of the IT Senior Management Team (SMT) focused on the vision and execution of delivery of the IT 5-year regulatory business plan, with a vision of transforming from a traditional IT function to a dynamic business partner delivering strategic change, whilst outperforming regulatory allowances and commitments. My responsibilities included running the functions of Business Change Project Delivery, Portfolio Management, Commercial & Contract Management and Software Licence compliance.• Manage IT Change function, comprising of business, regulatory, technology and IT service change, including the management of SAP Delivery and Telecoms teams with a budget of circa £30m. Ensuring a high performance cross functional team across circa 30 yearly projects (waterfall and agile) to achieve time, cost, quality and scope with high 93% stakeholder satisfaction that deliver the business outcome and benefits. Experience with delivery across technologies including SAP, Microsoft, Low Code and other COTs products.• Manage the end-to-end IT annual OPEX budget of circa £35m covering internal resource, managed services, software, and consultancy. Ran the annual cost reduction programme focused on removing shelfware, consolidation of applications, renegotiation and tendering of contracts, cloud IaaS/PaaS reductions and restructuring.• Run a Software Asset Management (SAM) capability, including software licencing, audit defence and lifecycle management. Managed multiple enhanced audits from major software companies avoiding significant exposures.• Run a commercial management function covering 170 vendors including contract performance management, SLA management, relationship management and retendering.

London, Gb

Specialising in providing PMO consultancy and services to clients. 1. Senior PMO Analyst of a global SAP ERP roll out for a global pharmaceutical company2. Setting up and running a PMO-as-a-service offering to a major UK Utility

Bachelor’S Degree, Geography

Education record

High School