Recruited into a new team to establish and embed P3M best practices, Government Functional Standards, effective governance, insightful reporting, standardised processes and templates, and expert support and guidance for the agency’s Change Portfolio. Responsible for designing and composing portfolio dashboards and performance reports for Executive Boards.

* Established portfolio definition and delivery cycle processes for the Digital BAU change initiatives.Solely identified requirements and priorities initiating and delivering PMO services including governance, performance & risk reporting, lifecycle management and financial tracking. Created templates and guidance to improve the quality of MI to drive visibility and support successful delivery.* Led the PMO Finance team of a large and complex programme, building tools and processes to improve cost tracking and forecasting and providing 1st line assurance. Created and implemented the finance framework to facilitate accurate reporting of both spend and multi year forecasts and provided variance narrative escalated risks to directors.

Responsible for providing high level financial cost management throughout the lifecycle of an ambitious, high value and high-profile transformation programme with 8 workstreams and over 30 projects. • Support the senior leadership team with management information to give assurance to the exec board and provide statistics and commentary for governance forums.• Work in partnership with accountant and PMO team to develop robust and compliant standards, processes and tools to collate and verify accurate forecast of spend for journal submissions.• Create and maintain monthly and annual reports to communicate lifecycle costs tracked against revenue and capital budgets including spend to date, committed, and forecasted spend.• Provide the business narrative for monthly variances to forecasts and budgets, supporting the reprofiling of annual budgets.• Provide end to end financial support and reporting to Lead Delivery Managers collaborating to accurately track resource’s time on projects.• Manage the burndown spend and reforecasting for procured contracts.• Manage a team to forecast and reconcile accruals with invoices, request and uplift PO’s and publish awarded contracts.

Responsible for leading the Departments, driving product, sourcing and marketing strategies to sustain and exceed profitable outcomes that deliver on the organisational growth objectives.• Developed balanced, commercial and innovative product ranges for a spectrum of brand profiles, ensuring focused identities across men’s apparel, accessories and footwear.• Applied an in-depth understanding of the market to maintain competitive advantage, continuously analysing sales and profit data, monitoring the competition, assessing trends and reacting accordingly to sustain business growth. • Nurtured strong and collaborative relationships with over 30 suppliers and brands, continuously assessing their performance against key KPI’s. • Sourced potential new suppliers, subsequently negotiating contracts and prices, on-boarding and managing on-going relationships to ensure delivery against contractual and commercial commitments and all business benefits realised.• Presented to senior management and key stakeholders to secure approval of and budget for strategies and product ranges.• Planed critical paths for multiple and concurrent product launches generating and communicating requirements for design, supply, finance and creative teams.• Managed the development and manufacture of over 1000 product briefs and control the development of new packaging.

A key player within Debenham’s transformational Product Lifecycle Management (“PLM”) project – a web-based system centralising product development from concept to delivery. • Quickly gained end-to-end system knowledge.• Detailed as-is process and workflows, analysing and documenting requirements for to-be solution implementation, gaining extensive exposure to become SME.• Managed ‘deep dives’ with wider business to capture change impact and engaged with senior stakeholders to communicate and secure approval of future processes prioritised by business benefits.• Managed extensive troubleshooting for inter-dependent technical and business challenges in collaboration with IT, Information Security (on and offshore) and third-party vendors. • Reviewed and remapped process flow documentation for levels 2, 3 & 4 with business analyst.• Created end-to-end script, capturing data requirements and leading UAT, scenario and integration testing.• Developed concise training support materials, user guides, checklists and visual aids; undertaking the role of Trainer delivering workshops and 1-2-1 coaching to optimise adoption. • Proposed customer focused creative solutions to short-term system limitations.• Directed super-users to channel communication between project and company community.

I was responsible for creating seasonal divisional strategies across 8 departments and identify opportunities to deliver a positive increase in revenue.• Managed reporting systems, processes and personnel to deliver and present reliable management information and divisional update reports to Executive Committee meetings. • Created, developed and implemented improved marketing and promotional messaging across the departments. • Oversaw compliance with the Debenhams framework / operational model to ensure standards at department-level are being adhered with.

Earlier Career• 07/2013 to 09/2015: Debenhams: Senior Buyer, Men’s Loungewear, Underwear and Socks• 06/2010 to 06/2013: Debenhams: Buyer, Men’s Loungewear, Underwear and socks• 01/2009 to 05/2010: Debenhams: Junior Buyer, Men’s Socks• 10/2006 to 12/2008: Debenhams: Assistant Buyer, Men’s Loungewear, Underwear and Socks• 01/2006 to 09/2006: Debenhams: Assistant Buyer, Men’s Seasonal Accessories• 01/2003 to 12/2005: Debenhams: Trainee Assistant Buyer