Oversight, tracking and management of the IT portfolio. Including leading the Annual Capital Planning process across the global IT function. Delivery and oversight of IT functional roadmaps, 10 year capital planning, portfolio financial management, portfolio prioritisation, and leadership of monthly Portfolio Reviews across the global Seqirus sites and functions.

Leadership of the Portfolio function and management of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) change portfolio.  Leadership and coordination of the technology department business planning for 2017-20, plus ownership of Demand Management plus strategic portfolio management and analysis processes.Achievements*     Creation of new resource forecasting and tracking processes including financial management rules, and tools for financial management of the portfolio of projects – to align with formal Finance processes and the need for project forecasting and reporting.*     Creation of the portfolio register for the whole NMC change and IT portfolio*     Creation, documentation and implementation of the demand management process for triage and prioritisation of all business and IT change requests / projects / programmes*     Refinement of the project governance process, plus redevelopment of the business case template to ensure project delivery is expedited and governance “blockage” is minimised*     Development of the 2017-20 business plan for TBI including cross-directorate interdependencies and alignment with new financial and governance processes

Leadership of the project and portfolio management team within the Centre for Drug Development. The team delivers high quality drug project information which supports senior management decision making, plus strategic planning and forecasting for CRUK’s drug portfolio. The team also develops and implements new tools and processes to enhance portfolio decision-making and enable CRUK to maximise on its investments.

Responsible for project managing the implementation of new data integration processes and technical solutions to enable data files from existing and new, internal and external, suppliers to be efficiently and accurately loaded into CRUK’s Siebel database in a (new) single agreed file format. This leading to improvement of data quality as well as loading different types of data, and supporting future enhancements.

Responsible for managing the PMS (Participant Management System) programme for Cancer Research UK. The programme's key deliverable, is the system responsible for holding Race for Life participant details and information; facilitating interaction between supporters, suppliers and associated platforms - i.e. website, call centre, fulfilment house, payment processing (online and offline), Supporter Relationship Management, and dynamic e-mail / messaging.Also IT project manager for the SRM ( Supporter Relationship Management) project, CRUK's Siebel CRM system.

Managing a programme which aims to deliver a policing model (via organisational redesign and restructure, collaboration, cost reduction and income generation) which will allow the City of London Police to meet its priorities within a £20M (20%) reduced budget by 2014/15,Including:* Overseeing the programme team, including programme administrators, project managers, special project leads, HR and finance leads* Leading & coordination the programme governance structure through strategic Programme Boards, operational Implementation Boards, and Collaboration Boards* Responsible for managing the programme implementation plan that will ensure the timely implementation of the new policing model.

Consultant leading strategic and business planning, and process management for the RPS as it prepares to divide its formal regulatory body from its professional leadership body following a government directive.AchievementsDefined, validated and documented business processes and workflows that were used to define and lead the emerging professional development & support services for the new Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) member organisation - including coordinating cross-service inter-dependencies. Critical to establish the RPS’s identity, reputation and success as a professional organisation ongoingDefined and implemented processes for long-term GB-wide vision, strategic planning and annual financial planning cycles for England, Scotland and Wales, including the cross-group 3 year business plan, now in operation. Included balanced scorecards for ongoing assessment of performance.Defined & implemented a new process and governance rules for the generation of GB-wide pharmacy policy, and responses to Government (Department of Health), NHS, and regulatory consultations. Managed the business & technical requirements definition, build and testing of a new system-led Information & Advisory Service, and the department migration to the new system, plus processes and cultural change. Co-led the initiation of a Programme Management Office within the Society, including PRINCE2-light project processes. Managed migration of processes and data into a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.

Business portfolio management for four therapy areas – providing: resource forecasting & budgeting; portfolio reporting & analysis; data standards & process improvement; alignment between governance & information systemsAchievementsWorked alongside global finance to manage a $156M budget for four therapeutic areas of clinical development. Ongoing management of spend throughout the year plus challenge / analysis of priorities to ensure ROICo-led global process improvement initiative to improve budget forecasting processes within the clinical business groups, and enable more efficient management and allocation of money to priority drug areasDeveloped standardised portfolio reports to integrate across different areas of the business, for distribution to senior management and supporting shareholder analyses. They provided a single authoritative source of portfolio information

Global Business Manager for a large scientific process improvement program, aiming to harmonise a series of a dozen drug discovery processes across 7 international company sites within France, UK, Japan and the USAAchievementsDeveloped a global organisational and operational structure for the program which became the long-term operating model for the 2 year duration of the programLed the process development and mapping of all research drug discovery processes within the programme. Creation of a team to look at the baseline and improvement “measures” for the processes, balanced scorecards, and subsequent monitoring & reporting to show their continued improvementCreation and chairmanship of a governance group of 6 senior managers whose responsibility it was to prioritise the allocation of people and $$ to all departmental IT projects across the globe

Global Business Lead for the implementation of a large resource management and planning system within Worldwide Discovery, intended to monitor, analyse and report on the utilisation of resource (approx. 800 people) across 7 international company sites within France, UK, Japan and the USA. Included: global communication; system & user testing; software training; global reporting; system administration.Additionally, Global Business Lead for developing and implementing a Discovery Decision Support system to be the single source of all project and portfolio information across the 7 company sites, and to ensure data alignment with key business needs and priorities.AchievementsSuccessful rollout of the system, in time to support a major annual business decision-making cycleEstablishing and leading a global team of business decision support administrators to maintain and administer the new application for all departmental and internal customer usersWinner of Individual Achievement Award in June 2003 for team leadership and implementation of a successful product

Global Business Lead for the for implementation of a large enterprise-wide IT system within Worldwide Regulatory Affairs, intended to monitor, analyse & report on the utilisation of resource (approx. 400 people) across 4 international sites within UK / USA. Project leadership included: global communication; system & user testing; software training; global reporting; system administration.

Management of the team responsible for publishing, production & delivery of all EU & International paper and electronic regulatory dossiers; critical to register new medicines for use in EU and other countries.AchievementsDesigned, built and delivered Pfizer’s first fully prospective electronic submission to support the parallel European review of a major new drugSuccessful production and delivery of paper and e-dossiers for 5 major drugs in Europe, to tight regulatory deadlinesInitiated and developed a new ‘toolkit’ for the build & validation of electronic submissions, enabling operational efficiency within the submissions groupWinner of the Pfizer Central Research Team Achievement Award in 1998 for “pioneering work in the electronic compilation and submission of regulatory dossiers.”

AchievementsDesigned and operated various in vitro & in vivo animal models to assess efficacy & side effect profiles of novel therapeutic drugs for pulmonary and gastrointestinal diseases