Mike Abel (Cmgr Fmci) Email & Phone Number

Brighton, Gb

Sussex

Providing governance and leadership advice to Impact Initiatives (Charity No: 276669) with a particular focus on Technology and Change Management.

London Area, United Kingdom

Providing clients with senior leadership support in Change & Transformation initiatives and guidance on setting up for future success. Recent projects include supporting C-Suite executives in refreshing and reframing the Change Management Capability within the organisation looking to transition to an Expansion phase of stability, away from the start-up phase of the organisational life cycle.Providing fractional Change Director support on a fractional basis.

London, England, United Kingdom

Global Head of Change Management, Systems Training and Service Design functions covering over 6000 employees and over 45 offices around the world.Launched a Business Change Network to hand Business Change back to the business. The network included a Business Change board with regional COOs as Change Champions and an initial 84 business change representatives covering off EMEA, APAC, Americas and ANZ regions.Involved in global launches of new Work Management and Digital Asset Management tools.

Own the Change Portfolio for Group Protection covering Strategic Transformation Programmes, Regulatory Initiatives, Projects, BAU changes and small continuous improvement requests.IT & Change lead on ONYX, a new Quote & Buy platform for Group Protection business, opening up new customer segments down to 2 lives

Lead on IT & Change Portfolio for the Barclays relationship for individual protection.Change Lead in Group Protection, initially focussing on a strategic partner and joint venture with FinTech Salary Finance to empower employees to understand their employee benefits better and encourage financial wellbeing, supported by a new platform that allowed the self-administration of employee benefits by the employee.

Multiple senior roles within a programme to merge Equiniti share services and Well Fargo share services (based in Minnesota, USA)

IT & Change lead for Group Protection, performing an enterprise analysis exercise to improve organisational efficiencies and decision making.Represented IT & Change on Group Protection Leadership team.Managed the portfolio of change within Group Protection

Lead on developing a new Quote/Buy/Administer platform for Annuity & Drawdown products, including the ability for members to select their own investment fund groupings.

Bexhill-On-Sea

Delivered a new strategy for BA and Delivery CapabilityIntroduced a new CoP for the BA function along with capability, career paths and maturity modelIntroduced a Change Inception Board, attended by all senior technology leaders including CIO to control requests and present an enterprise level view of change initiatives

Kingswood

Workstream lead on implementing a new rules engine (Magnum by SwissRe) and the underwriting rules flow to support a revamped Individual Enhanced Annuity propositionWorkstream lead on an RFP for a BPO proposition for Bulk Purchase Annuities

Worthing, West Sussex.

Lead on implementation of solutions to mitigate the RDR regulations

Lead on Investments workstream looking at improving Pension technology through build (administration & presentation layers to consolidate data) or buy & replace

Measurement workstream lead on Sky Adsmart (Targeted Advertising), looking at traditional BARB & Neilsen ratings and analysing new opportunities for additional ratings data by customer segment, post x days viewing on recorded items and on Sky Player

Lead on Data Security project to identify data related risks within Zurich, then propose and implement solutions

MI workstream lead on a Part VII transfer between L&G and Nationwide. Creation of Operational MI reports and Executive reporting packs

Airtime Sales business consultant for NIIT, embedded in the Channel 4 team to support the development of the STELLAR solution and enhance the C4 airtime sales function

Full lifecycle Principal consultant from pre-sales to post-implementation support for the company's CMS solution, focussing on Public Sector and Local Government clients

Lead Business Analyst, responsible for the implementation of OLP, an online quote & buy protection portal for advisers and aggregators to engage directly with L&G without the need for paper submissions.Lead workstreams on creating a TOM for Individual Protection Underwriting processes ahead of vendor selection for a new underwriting rules engine.

IT lead on Marketing workstream for the GLOBE programme, a global rationalisation of processes and introduction of SAP CRM 4. Worked onsite in Vevey, Switzerland and Waldorf, Germany with SAP to develop the TCM component of SAP CRM v4

Bsc(Hons) Business Decision Analysis, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics

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