Mike Cole

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Portfolio Manager – Major Programmes @ British Gas
hayes, hillingdon, united kingdom
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Manchester Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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Specialties: Project ManagementStakeholder Engagement and ManagementSystem Integration with Business RequirementsField Operations and Resulting Technical RequirementsTelephony InfrastructureFraud IndentificationCredit Vetting and Upfront Risk Mitigation.All aspects of Telecommunications

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British Gas

British Gas

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Portfolio Manager – Major Programmes
hayes, hillingdon, united kingdom
Website:
britishgas.co.uk
Employees:
8752
Mike Cole Work Experience Details
  • British Gas
    Portfolio Manager – Major Programmes (Senior Project Manager)
    British Gas Jan 2021 - Present
    Manchester Area, United Kingdom
    Key Achievements: Creation of portfolio governance including weekly meetings, highlight reporting, programme planning and combined risk & dependency management across SIPD, Supply Chain, Metering and smaller individual projects. Our Voice Employee Engagement scores of 10 within “management support” and over 9 across the board Developing my team with 3 promotions (L7-L6) & training the full team in APM (PMQ) – supporting 4 ex-forces leavers. Developed a cross Services & Solution flight control mechanism to capture, track and highlight change impacts to end audiences and presented fortnightly at the field transformation board on potential conflicts or change fatigue. Managed the >80 FTE resource & budget tracking for deployment, creating all GFF forecasts and landing 2023 under target, along with maintaining a capacity view of all team members & leading on “swarming” of resource across programmes.Accountabilities: Finance Forecasting, overall resource and capacity management across the team enabling swarming. Management of team of 8 L6’s and 2 L7’s with daily support across the multiple major programmes Cross programme governance (SIPD, Supply Chain, Metering, Phoebe, Fleet, etc) maintaining weekly highlight reports, cross programme roadmap, feeds into risk and transformation boards, design authorities, and steering groups. Supporting all my project managers in setting up and leading their respective programmes.
  • British Gas
    Field Operations Support Programme Manager
    British Gas May 2019 - Jan 2021
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    Key Achievements: Migration of the Operational Transformation team over from waterfall to Agile way of working as their Scrum Master. Creation of the Scrum of Scrums and implementing an escalation process to steering group for any blockers. Implementation of a new RAID management governance process for the scaled AGILE programme utilising ADO. Implementation of a new Portfolio Dependency tracking mechanism using new Microsoft teams and SharePoint capability. Creation of the first baselined programme plan for SiPD and mechanism for updating and showing contingency variations.Accountabilities: Ownership of all Programme Governance including: RAID Management across Scaled Agile Programme / Programme Plan ownership, Fortnightly Programme Status Reporting / Internal and External communications / Business case refresh Running Scrum of Scrums and the Programme Delivery team & Scrum Master for the Operational Transformation team
  • British Gas
    Customer Journey Improvement Manager
    British Gas Nov 2013 - May 2017
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    Key Achievements: Mobilisation of Multi-disciplinary team, leading team through discovery and creation of Product Backlog. Creation of the FIX Customer Journey strategic roadmap, mapping interdependencies with major programmes.  Creation & sign off at BG Investment board of Epic 4 Lean Canvas Business Case and mobilisation of 4 projects underneath Delivery of revised Job Booking Rules for all job types for Customer Fulfilment implemented into One Knowledge Hub. Delivery and launch of new Customer Journey Forum leading L4 conversations around strategic direction.Accountabilities: Ownership of the Fix, Complaints and Change of Circumstance customer journeys. Leading a virtual team of 10+ through agile delivery using Azure Dev Ops (ADO). Creating and owning the Complaints Root Cause delivery plan and reporting up to the board. Flight control of all new change raised, facilitating alignment, resourcing, and prioritisation discussions. Reviewing 2022 change plan in line with customer journey strategy and proposals on progression.
  • British Gas
    British Gas - Meter To Bill Manager
    British Gas May 2010 - Nov 2013
    North West
    Key Achievements: Implementation of Meter Reading prompting platform with over 30m comms per year with a £5m return on investment. Creation of Meter Read channel strategy (SMS, Email, App, Website, 3rd Parties, etc) Management and accurate forecasting of over £25m metering budget including 3rd party management. Management of an extended team with over 90 FTE across 7 sites. Delivery of Direct Debit (DD) Transformation programme delivering over £1m benefits due to reduced contact and complaints, improving Journey Net Promoter Scores by over 5 points and improving all customer outcomes. Implemented an Industry leading customer journey blueprint, using a new approach to identify, document, and engage support across the business on the key focus points to deliver the best customer outcomes. Customer Journey management of the Smart meter rollout, leading propositions such as Smart Time of Use tariffs.Accountabilities: Delivery of the DD Transformation programme from business case creation through to training roll out. Full journey ownership of all payment related processes and in-flight activities for residential customers. Leading monthly customer journey reviews with senior stakeholders highlighting current performance from a voice of the customer and agents to help agree next period’s priority and focus. Overall ownership of all Projects, Process Improvements and Key Metrics within the Metering, Billing and Payments areas. Driving the 3-year strategic planning process, negotiating budget, and liaison with technical teams to drive accurate cost forecasting. Representing in various MBR’s at director level giving commentary on key metrics and updating on resolution plans. Working closely with the analysis and insight teams to create and validate hypotheses that generate actionable change.
  • British Gas
    Head Of Change – Energy Debt Collections
    British Gas Jan 2010 - May 2010
     Heading up the change cluster for a department of ~900 full time employees across multiple sites. Management of my own cost code and budget, along with ownership for all project funding from the central finance team. Responsible for all stakeholder communications and project reporting to directors across British Gas. Working with the portfolio team to help produce new project lifecycles and programme governance for One British Gas. Responsible for 4 senior managers reporting directly to me with an extended team of 25 project managers - Instrumental is receiving a 94% employee engagement score. Overall responsibility for a £10m change budget with multiple projects running at once. Instrumental in helping build a delivery culture in the change environment with an emphasis on speed of delivery for maximum benefit realisation. Supported other change programmes with the roll-out of Agile and was one of the first programmes to start using the methodology.
  • British Gas
    Programme Manager - Evolution
    British Gas Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
     Initial shaping of the Programme and linking the objectives into the Centrica vision and strategic pillars. Started the overall engagement of the “Evolution” Programme across One British Gas bringing key updates and even road-shows to most Centrica sites. Broke up the Programme into deliverable phases and gave encouragement to the sponsor of on-going delivery. Helped embed a risk based culture across the business but with specific results improvement within the onshore and offshore debt operation. Managed all costs and benefit tracking across the programme. Created and mobilised a high performing team recognised across the business. Close relationship management with sales and marketing to influence and agree on key business metrics. Managed multiple 3rd party relationships. Team and Project won awards at the credit today awards.
  • British Gas
    Programme Manager
    British Gas Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
     Overall shaping and creation of a series of projects specifically targeted to bring in a £25m reduction in the companies Bad Debt Charge.  Initial shaping of 18 projects to achieve this target along with governance controls surrounding the on-going benefit tracking. The projects that I mobilised included the:  Introduction of SMS to Debt Customers Introduction of Automated Voice Contact to Debt Customers  Trialling discount letters at various stages within debt path,  Introduction of tracing using internal and external companies Introduction of Litigation (trialling internal vs external) Introduction of field collection methods for finalised accounts Increasing and streamlining the outbound dialler teams using segmentation to focus resource for maximum impact on the BDC. Creation of a back-office team to analyse high value debts for root causes. Introduction of debt transfer process to off-set credit and debit balances. Debt Sale of various aspects of the portfolio where uneconomical to pursue.  Management of IS relationship and all business analysts creating requirements documentation. Reporting / Presenting to British Gas P&L Directors
  • British Gas
    Hand Held Terminals Project Manager
    British Gas Jun 2007 - Dec 2007
    Project Management of the implementation of Hand Held Terminals into the British Gas Residential Debt Operations team.Structured Stakeholder management from External suppliers to the Field Operatives themselves.
  • Centrica
    Debt Strategy Analyst
    Centrica Jan 2006 - Jun 2007
    Involved within various projects primarily focused around the integration of new IS system architecture with structured business requirements.
  • Onetel
    Credit Vetting And Decision Analyst
    Onetel Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

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