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New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for business development and delivery covering pre-sales to post-sales for complex global digital transformation programmes, process mining, data driven process improvement, process augmentation and automationKey Achievements:• Business development, pipeline management and conversion for Digital Twin practice by mining existing accounts and new account hunting• Development of new Go To Market offerings for data driven Process Excellence• Data driven process improvement projects leveraging Celonis Process Mining and intelligent automation• Data driven process assessment of Book to Bill process for legacy AS/400 system• Transformation assessment and blueprinting for a Pharma company leading to wins for outsourced operational work, technology programme delivery and supply chain transformation• Transformation and process assessment for CPG company leading to win of operational work in Finance, Procurement and Compliance• Creation of transformation roadmaps covering technology, process and service placement• Assessment and creation of roadmap for process automation leveraging RPA, Low Code Workflow, AI and Systems of Engagement• Delivery of Global Business Services (GBS) proposal for large global organisation• Mobilisation of global delivery team and setup of PMO

Manchester, Manchester, Gb

Design of Target Operating Model for a global organisation covering technology, processes and organisational design across the group. Solution design for Procure To Pay systems including Coupa, SAP PM, SAP MM, SAP FICO and ExpenSys. Key Achievements:• Procure to Pay Target Operating Model design (systems, process and technology)• End to end Procure to Pay (P2P) process design and process taxonomy for Procure to Pay and Travel and Expenses.• Designing optimal solution (Coupa, SAP and manufacturing systems) to cover Direct and Indirect Spend • Vendor evaluation, shortlisting and selection of new Procure to Pay (P2P) system • Identifying early opportunities for savings in advance of the full rollout• Development of a group wide category map enabling consistent and detailed spend visibilityConfiguration of Sourcing system for business use

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

iBuy was a complex global cross-functional global programme to implement Ariba OnDemand integrated to multiple SAP systems. This covered multiple business areas with twelve individual projects. Scope was to roll out common processes and systems. Budget responsibility of over $70 million and team of over 100 FTEs.Key Achievements:• Successful go live and business adoption in key markets and hubs • Setup of operational support teams across business and IT• Mobilisation and management of global delivery teams and management of global suppliers across Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia Pacific• Identifying $2M / pa savings by changing approach and scope for Sweden Project. • Review of benefit realisation ($28M per annum) identifying • Improvements to system content – contracts, templates, catalogs and use of preferred suppliers • Operational efficiency improvements to Straight Through Processing (STP) and the use of electronic invoicing • Delivery of system interfaces between Ariba OnDemand and 5 Validated (CSV) regional SAP systems • Design and delivery of performant and resilient systems and networks• Resolving compliance, data privacy and regulatory issues with Ariba cloud based system• Identifying the benefits and making the case for AstraZeneca to adopt a single cloud based system rather than the planned two for all its indirect spend ($8 billion per annum)• Take on, recovery and turnaround of failing IT programme• Promotion from IT Programme Manager to Business Programme Manager

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

Key Programme to consolidate a number of regional and global systems, to improve financial forecasting, report financials to the markets and to facilitate a future Single Chart of Accounts programme. Budget responsibility of over $15 million and for teams of over 30 FTEsKey Achievements:• Successful go live of new and upgraded Hyperion financial reporting and planning systems• Successful go live of new Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Master Data Management• Successful mitigation of the impact of a failing supplier • Mentoring Project Managers in planning, status reporting and risk / issue mitigation

Dublin 2, Ie

Various client facing Programme and Project Management roles across Credit Cards, Internet Banking, Telephony, Back Office Systems and core Mainframe SystemsKey Achievements:• Successful go live of VisionPlus Credit Card System including the testing of full credit card lifecycle including issuing new cards, issuing new PINs, Point of Sale (POS) and ATM, statement production, payments and interest charges and fraud detection• Successful delivery of PPI programme covering multiple business areas including telephony, internet, back office processing, underwriting, central printing and payment systems• Planning, scoping and mobilising a new cross channel £10 million programme of work• £2.8 million in project savings achieved by challenging, reviewing and tensioning estimates• Responsible for teams of over 50 people including Project Managers and offshore staff• Recovering and delivering a failing project to fix performance on International Commercial eBanking (ICeB)

Us

Responsibilities: * Management and technical leadership of European IT Team* Implementation and support of new global applications to replace multiple legacy systems. * Package evaluation and selection of new CRM, billing and provisioning applications. * Third party management of software supplier. * Evaluation, impact assessment, scoping, planning and implementation of Change Requests. * Business analysis and business process reengineering. * Responsible for Change and Release Management. Key Achievements: * Implementation of a new pan-European systems in six countries in one year. * Implementation and management of new processes to support transition into application support.