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A high calibre Programme Director and Change Leader with over 30 years experience in the Financial Services Industry (Banking and Insurance) with an outstanding track record over the last 20 years of delivering high profile, complex multi disciplined programmes for the UKs largest Insurers. Enthusiastic, confident and motivated with a can-do attitude and a passion for shaping and delivering strategic change across organisations by creating high performing teams and working collaboratively with C-level executives and business colleagues to deliver strategic value.With a vast amount of experience at delivering transformational change as well as ‘Turn Around’ situations through leading, developing and motivating teams to deliver expected business outcomes.Key Skills and Experience:- Strong people leader, experienced at creating and leading large (300+) teams both programme, change and operational – change teams, application delivery and application maintenance teams- Over 20 years’ experience delivering multi million (£100m+ cost / benefit) large scale IT enabled programmes to exacting time, cost and quality parameters, requiring co-ordination of multi stakeholders across many business units- Go to ‘Turn around’ leader, vast experience of transforming failing Programmes and underperforming teams- Experienced in leading the delivery of IT software solutions including multiple Guidewire suite implementations including the first UK implementation of Guidewire Cloud, Azure Data and Analytic solutions, Saleforce.com, Teradata and Infomatica Data warehouse solutions, Smart Comms Document Management Solutions - Full project management and system development lifecycle knowledge including a range of methodologies – MSP, Prince 2, SAFe Angilist qualified, Agile, WaterfallEstablishment, recruitment and management of offshore and onshore multi disciplined Programme teams- Mainframe Migration- Programme Managed the Due Diligence of the potential sale of the Insurance business- Played significant role in 2 successful high-profile business integrations- Regulatory projects including GDPR, FSA ICOB compliance and Solvency II- Led the delivery of several vendor system package evaluations and selections- Strong stakeholder management skills at C-suite level- Strong strategic thinker with good awareness of business drivers- Track record of developing innovative solutions to resolve business problems

Listed skills include Programme Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Business Transformation, and 24 others.