Mike is an educated and proven transformational business leader with economic competence and vast experience in the private and public sectors. An informed strategic integrator, Mike has driven the organisational vision and value-based strategies in multi-national companies and private equity partnerships in the UK and Asia-Pacific.➢ Strategic business integrator with deep cross-functional expertise and multi-national experience➢ Commercially focused with proven change management and business transformation skills ➢ Designs and operationalises strategies to achieve organisational vision➢ Budget responsibility to £200M ➢ Accomplished pacesetter delivering mission-critical projects and programmes globally➢ CEDR qualified ADR Mediator - experienced in renegotiating/achieving commercial outcomes➢ Value creation expert driving up customer satisfaction, NPS, and shareholder value➢ Led over 300 geographically spread high-performing matrix and cross-functional resources ➢ Transitioned multiple post-merger integrations and managed services in the UK and APAC➢ Complex commercial negotiations incl. M&A due diligence, joint ventures, and tenders➢ Corporate resilience and risk management skills➢ Strong experience in root cause analysis and process re-engineering➢ Board-level experience providing oversight to a scalable B2B/B2C e-commerce newco➢ Experience gained across several industry sectors incl. big-4 Global Financial Services GroupNotable Career Highlights:• Designed, led, and transitioned a critical congruence & digital transformation in a FTSE 100, achieving double-digit (£M’s) in OPEX savings and improving business performance and output by >30% in the first 6 months of transition• Led a compelling bid from the pre-qualification stage to contract award on a triple-digit ($M’s) managed service tender and led the operational B2B transition phase, achieving double-digit ($M’s) OPEX savings• Turned around a distressed triple-digit ($M’s) FTSE 100 outsourced transmission group by delivering 99.99% service availability through an improved 96% uplift in transmission capacity, reducing customer churn by 38%• Pioneered and guided a scalable high-growth B2B / B2C digital e-commerce business for a 'big-four' Financial Service Group securing triple-digit ($M’s) new revenue/sales (20-year term O&M) managed service contracts• Led mediation and operational negotiations with a global law firm and an externally managed service supplier, renegotiating commercial terms and reducing a services contract value by triple-digit (£M’s)
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Coo I Director Of Strategy & Business TransformationGrowth Advocate Ltd Aug 2019 - May 2024Solihull, England, United KingdomA Professional services company based in the Midlands with a national reach of contracted consultants that support the public and private sectors. Implementing proven change and transformative techniques, strategies and applications propelling growth potential and improving overall operational performance. Experts in achieving operational excellence, change management, transformation, and turnaround -
Director Of Business Transformation | It, Business Operations, Governance & AssuranceCornerstone Aug 2016 - Jul 2019Berkshire, England, United KingdomThe UK's leading real estate management and infrastructure company, providing critical communications and managed services. A joint venture owned and controlled by two FTSE100 shareholding companies. -
Programme Director Business OperationsCornerstone (Ctil) Jul 2014 - Jul 2016Berkshire, England, United Kingdom -
Transformation Director, Bid Leader & B2B Managed Service TransitionCimic Group Limited Dec 2012 - Jun 2014Sydney, AustraliaCIMIC Group Limited is an engineering-led construction, mining, services, and public-private partnerships leader working across the lifecycle of assets, infrastructure, and resources projects. CIMIC Group is a listed company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) -
FreemasonUnited Grand Lodge Of Nsw & The Act Nov 2011 - Jun 2014Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaNon-profit organisation - Supporting the community and providing charitable services and fundraising -
Programme Director - Transmission Network Operations (Interim Role)Vodafone Australia Nov 2011 - Nov 2012Sydney, AustraliaVodafone Australia is part of Vodafone PLC and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) FTSE 100 and the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) -
Senior Commercial Manager (Macquarie Capital Advisers & Broadcast Australia)Macquarie Group Jul 2007 - Oct 2011Sydney, Australia & Asia PacMacquarie is a global financial services group operating in 34 markets in asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing, and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory, capital raising, and principal investment. Macquarie Group is listed in the top 100 of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) -
Head Of Commercial InfrastructureArqiva May 2005 - Jul 2007Hampshire, England, United KingdomA national infrastructure company offering a technology and service-neutral proposition to support terrestrial broadcasters, utility companies, and critical communication providers across the UK. Arqiva is owned by several international listed shareholders.
Michael Dickson Education Details
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Affiliated With The University Of East London -
Business Administration, Management And Operations -
Construction Management
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Michael Dickson attended Ducere Global Business School, University Of East London, Oxford Brookes University.
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