Mark Rushforth Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Folkestone, England, United Kingdom

• Direct Report Management including growth and development• Cover EU PMO Manager when out of office• Overall responsibility for driving project “on time, in full and on cost” delivery.• Overall project leadership for a portfolio of projects across strategic business unit (SBU), working to a Stage Gate process.• Taking responsibility of the project following Stage gate charter approval• Facilitate the definition of project goals, objectives, scope, milestones and deliverables.• Ensuring full feasibility analyses (technical and business assessment) are conducted to include all aspects of the project (not just cost). Define project tasks and resource requirements with the project team and resource management.• Ensure project risks are assessed, managed and mitigated as part of the project plan.Review risks and changes in risk status as part of routine progress reporting.• Project progress reporting both in written reports and presentations at all levels within the organisation – both in Europe and internationally.• Change management & change control including the escalation of change issues that impact on the project fundamentals of time, cost, quality and scope.• Coordinate creation of Master Data to ensure that new products are set-up, live and costed on the SAP system on time. For in-house produced products, responsibility for seeing that Bills of Material are created, approved and loaded in a timely manner.• Manage smooth transition from project to on-going production; release meetings, including Quality department, to be held for all NPD projects.• Project evaluation, assessment and communication of results

Kent, Uk

Project managing a cloud Data Lake digital solution for a multi-national membership organisation to drive revenue and profit growth for its members.

London, United Kingdom

Led the successful implementation of the change governance framework and improved the change maturity of the organization.Managed a team providing oversight and assurance of £25m annual project portfolioDesigned and presented portfolio performance reports to Executives stakeholders

London, United Kingdom

The successful delivery of the Group’s transformation programmes through leadership of effective Project, Programme & Portfolio Management governance. Experience and lessons learned from a diverse range of change projects from a £50m ERP SAP transformation programme, cyber security maturity improvement, GDPR compliance, MS Office 365, Windows 10 and PC hardware upgrades to 7000 employees

London, United Kingdom

Development and adoption of Group’s commercial and financial controls, including commercial bid approval, contract review and advice, producing and reviewing business cases. The development and delivery of the Commercial Awareness training course, including Negotiation and Project Management techniques. Performed M&A activity - company searches and analysis, acquisition pricing analysis, due diligence, execution and integration.

London, United Kingdom

Roles in the company's IT department, starting from Business Analysis, Service Management, Application Management and finally Business Service Management Manager.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing and testing engineering software to be used by clients.