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Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

This Leadership role is accountable for the in-house built Pharmacy practice management system called Columbus. Ensuring the application continuously delivers valuable change aligned to business strategy and clinical compliance whilst ensuring a sustainability of these critical platforms. Utilising Agile delivery methodology (SAFe) to maximise flexibility and pace to market.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Accountable for multi-million pound Transformational Change Programmes and Projects. Utilise detailed business knowledge to provide technical strategic advice, direction and knowledge to Senior Stakeholders to help identify Transformational Change for the organisation and facilitate proactive strategies to deliver the end to end solutions.Leadership and Management of a multidiscipline team directly responsible for delivery of full life-cycle projects from identification through to business as usual operations. Responsible for creating and maintaining an organisational structure to optimise capacity and capability ensuring the team is setup for success. Diverse team includes mixture of in-house permanent and contractor resource, as well as indirect 3rd party and consultancy resources. Create and manage integrated change plans that are aligned to business and IT strategy in order to feed a rolling programme of work, constructed to efficiently deliver the changes required by the business areas. Passionate about creating an environment of continuous improvement and personal and professional development for all employees.Maintain an awareness of and implementing as required new technologies, software tools and development methodologies to support the delivery of the business strategy.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Managing end-to-end delivery of complex IT change programmes. Solely responsible for leading a wide range of change projects and programmes – including estimating and project planning, issue and risk management. Effective stakeholder management skills ensuring that the Retail business is ready for effective change while working directly with customers to understand and meet their business requirements. Line management responsibility of up to 25 employees. Use of agile development and project methodologies, oracle experience and Prince 2 qualified.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Management of multiple concurrent internal IT and business change projects throughout the complete lifecycle both internally developed and externally provided. These projects required the management of cross functional teams in order to deliver change into the European retail business whilst adhering to strict regulatory requirements. This has resulted in building strong relationships within the business to initiate, shape and deliver beneficial/successful systems change. Accountable for estimating, planning, reporting, issue & risk management of project, producing and managing RAID logs (Risk, Actions, Issues and Dependencies). Accountable for obtaining authorisation and adherence to the project methodology and governance in place for projects whilst adhering to regulatory requirements. line management responsibility for 10 permanent and 5 contact staff and all contributing factors.

The key responsibilities of this role involved international end to end project life-cycle management working with and managing blue chip customers within a Prince 2 environment, implementing web based application software to integrate, enhance and change business practices. This includes being technically responsible and financially accountable for the success of the project, involving the management and scheduling of customer and internal development team resource, working as a consultant on site and all contributing factors. This opportunity has helped to further develop my business acumen and appreciate the pressures and opportunities felt within manufacturing industry.Duties & Responsibilities:• Responsible for scope definition and sign-off, compilation & adherence to timing plan, agreement and tracking of financials (P&L), procurement of hardware and 3rd party contractor & customer resource management. Full Project life-cycle management.• Responsible for customer communication and various levels and managing customer expectations. • Facilitate and steer regular project meetings at different levels, to update progress, delegate and motivate team members whilst document agreements and contracts.• Responsible for scheduling engineer hardware installation and network install/config.• Responsible for conducting awareness presentations, facilitate software configuration, user training and Improvement workshops.• Ongoing Project Control using Highlight reports, proactively manage Risk and Issues registers, Change management, Quality control and detailed project plans.• Understand and enhance customer working procedures to ensure ongoing success.• Involvement in sales process from reference visits, technical support and ongoing additional service generation.• Management of internal & 3rd Party Global developments teams. • Integration of software into ERP and other Corporate systems.

This role has incorporated the management of concurrent internal IT Application development Change projects throughout a complete lifecycle based upon Prince 2 methodology.These projects required the management of cross functional teams in order to deliver change into the retail business. This results in building strong relationships within the business to initiate, shape and deliver successful systems change.Duties & Responsibilities:• Lead and motivate a cross functional team throughout the project lifecycle.• Responsible and accountable for the delivery within budget, time, quality & scope.• Accountable for estimating, planning, reporting, issue & risk management of project, producing and managing RAID logs (Risk, Actions, Issues and Dependencies).• Accountable for obtaining authorisation and adherence to the project methodology and governance in place for projects.• Liaison & negotiation directly with the customer in order to understand business requirements, agree plans, costs and timescales.• Consultation skills required to facilitate workshops and present solutions.• Ability to influence other areas of the business to ensure project success.• Line management responsibility which included setting personal objectives, delegation and maintaining effective performance.

This role has provided experience of managing one or more concurrent software IT projects throughout the complete lifecycle using Prince 2 methodology. Responsibility and accountability for technical and commercial aspects of the project teams success, from initiation through to closure with a smooth transition to ongoing support. This client facing role also requires the development a strong customer relationships.Duties, Responsibilities & Key Achievements:• Defining overall project approach, identifying milestones and the creation and use of suitable plans to successfully execute projects.• Accountability for financial aspects of projects P&L forecasting and reporting.• Responsibility for negotiation and documentation of agreements with the customer, suppliers and all internal parties.• Resource management including definition of task, obtaining estimates and prioritisation.• Regular reporting, Risk & Issue management and refine project plans.• Responsible for adherence to project scope to include change and budget management.• Ability to gauge need for timely escalation of issues where necessary.• Continually involved in process improvement throughout the business