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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

We help you unblock delivery potential.Obraich is Gaelic for work and this is what we do. We are here to help founders and innovators get on with the most important work of growing their businesses by removing the burden of bootstrapping effective operations.We know operations are the foundations of delivery within your company, allowing it to grow and thrive.Visit our website and set up a 30-minute chat to see what Obraich can do for you. www.obraich.uk

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Line management of the company's HR, Finance, Customer Service and Procurement teams. Managing all operational aspects of the organisation, including application and approval for a Consumer Credit license with the FCA, building all operational processes for the license to ensure the company complies with regulatory processes. Build operational processes to enable organisations to achieve ISO27001 accreditation.• Work with the board and CEO to help build a strategic vision for the company.• Build and implement the operational model to support the business growth and functions.• Implementation of ISO27001 certification within the organisation• Building the service delivery model (SDM) for the company• Manage all regulatory and compliance reporting across the business, including FCA, PSA and ISO27001 reporting.• Management of all technical and managerial reporting across the organisation• Build and manage risk process to ensure all risks are managed in a controlled way.• Build measures to align company and organisational goals to individual goals through OKR SMART goals.• Implementation of SLA across cloud and 3rd party services to ensure operational goals achieved.• Manage finance to include building budget, ROI and managing spending against budget.• Build and manage Customer Service model to achieve 5x8 operation with minimum response timing.• Document and manage all variations to the budget, including board reporting of actual verse budget• Manage P&L across the organisation.• Build and manage headcount plans for the organisation• Ensure the business is compliant and robust, working within our business ethics and values

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Interim executive management and programme consulting services for clients, including.DirectID - COO and Executive Board MemberEClinicalHealth - Strategic AdvisorWilko - Transformation Programme Manager

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

COO managing all of the internal operational teams to support the business including HR, Finance, Engineering, Customer Success and all governance and compliance across the organisation.Working closely with the CEO and Board to define and build the business strategy and convert this into an operational strategy that is achievable and delivers to the business planning strategy.Worked with vendors and suppliers to help reduce overall costs across the organisation including managing offshore resources to supplement and support the engineering team with a 30% cost reduction.Building operational processes across the organisation to support the growth and maintain governance and compliance in a regulated environment whilst ensuring that speed of delivery and growth was not impacted.Manage rollout of both the US and Irish offices to support company growth including regulatory application and approval with the Central Bank of Ireland to support European operations post Brexit.

Worksop, United Kingdoms

FMCG retailer with over 400 stores nationwide.Contracted to managed ERP stability programme as part of technology improvement and upgrade planning. Initial scope to upgrade ERP (EEC6 ehp 5 to EEC6 ehp 8) and improve onsite infrastructure. Change of scope to use HEC cloud hosting and movement of the system during the upgrade process. Outage planned and executed with the final system fully upgraded on EEC6 EHP8 and hosted with HEC including a reduction in the database due to removal and archiving plan.Manage Internal board approval to accept project budgets, scope and timelines. Built on-going relationships with key decision-makers in the organisation to manage project expectations. Managed critical change management across the project and external stakeholders to ensure the project remained on track due to external and internal drivers.• Key Achievement: drastically improved the stability of the SAP system and reduced unplanned outages.• Highlight: delivered four projects to stabilise the IT landscape and improve efficiency on time and in scope saving GBP1.4M.

Stirling, United Kingdoms

Interim COO for startup organisation developing SaaS application for management of Clinical Trial. Managing IT, HR, Finance and Supplier functions across the organisation including the development of budgets for FY18 and cloud provisioning and maintenance. Development of the disaster recovery and system sustainability to ensure client needs were met and service level agreements maintained. Worked with CEO to manage 3rd round share drive ending with a GBP1.2M investment.• Key Achievement: Aligned business continuity systems to business goals and SLA reducing hosting costs.• Highlight: Manage all aspects of 3rd round investment drive with investors and committee members from the initial offer to share distribution.

Singapore

Executive Director of IT at Marina Bay Sands managing 135 FTE and 50 contractors to support information technology across the Hotel, Meeting, Information. Conference and Entertainment space (MICE), Retail and Casino. Interim CIO for 18 months prior to repatriating back to UK.Management of USD26M OPEX and USD58M CAPEX budget for FY15.Planning and execution of Information Technology plan for FY15 including 19 projects, staff recruitment, retention plans and contract negotiation.Key achievements • Delivering strategic direction, operational excellence, full compliance and regulatory operations, staffing and contractor management.• Managed and resolved a high risk cyber security threat, maintaining business activity with minimum disruption to both the USA business and Regional.• Designed and implemented a problem management system delivering a 6% decrease in critical activity.• Delivered and closed 27 separate IT projects resulting in the ability to focus on commercially viable projects to the operation providing ROI.• Initiated a proactive maintenance program, reducing emergency change and unplanned change by 15% saving $20m reduction in outages costs.

Singapore

Management of multi-million dollar projects across the portfolio within BHP BillitonManagement of the Governance function for BHP Billiton global projectsWorking in Asia, US and Australia on multiple regional projects.Management of over 40 project managers across the 1SAP project portfolio.• Managed project for implementation of 1SAP into BHP shared service in Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia between Jan – Oct 2013 and PMO for 1SAP project in both Singapore and Houston. Managing Accenture and BHP staff delivering the 1SAP project on time and within budget.• Led several parts of ISAP the largest SAP deployment in the world at the time scheduled to be delivered within five years and a budgeted cost of $3.4bn. • Managed and rebuilt the 1SAP project after delays in phase 1 due resulting from poor communication and project discipline. Resulting in phase 1delivered on time and scope to revised timelines.• Successfully delivered phase 5 of the project; the largest single movement of a payroll system globally involving 27 countries and over 250,000 staff payroll migrated with zero issues. • Delivered a previously delayed shared services implementation on time and with full scope resulting in a budget saving of $2m. • Built on-boarding process for the 1SAP project enabling accurate headcount and billing analysis across the project of over 4,000 people.• Managed development and deployment globally of full project governance process ensuring consistent management of change, risk and issues across all 14 deployment sites.

Singapore

Development and control of all projects attaining to the System Engineering and Technical Operations within the APAC region in support of the APAC Systems Engineering Director’s direction and vision. Managing all stages of the projects initiation, planning, executing and closing. Conducting program reviews with the World Wide Operations team to coordinate initiatives and planning across the System Engineering and Technical Operations teams. Stake holder management across the engineering and wider CISCO organisation including APAC President and Vice President of Sale and Engineering.Key achievements • Project development and controls relating to System engineering and technical operations, supporting the APAC systems engineering directors’ direction and vision.• Managed all stages of the projects from programme initiation to close.• Successfully engaged with all internal stakeholders including APAC president and VP of sales and engineering..

Recruiting and training a new team responsible for all new product deployments in APAC excluding China. Developing training plans for 2, 2.5 and 3G engineers on both RAN and CORE disciplines. Management and development of resource plans to support projects and programs. Creation of project plans and resource mapping to fulfil both external and internal programs of all new product deployments to support new products in region for Motorola customers.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

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