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United Kingdom

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• Scaled an Atlassian first, decentralised tooling approach across JD group, driving continuous improvement and boosting productivity and collaboration.• Developed enterprise wide Atlassian solutions, enhancing security, compliance and analytics.• Transformed software development with agile methodologies, empowering scrum master, engineers and product owners in achieving the first “go-live” with a scrum-based approach.• Fostered cross-departmental relationships, interfacing with senior stakeholders in delivery, engineering, architecture, QA, and service management for seamless execution. • Increased staff engagement by applying a quantitative approach to reporting supporting senior stakeholders strategic decisions.• Led the development of a recruitment strategy, including onboarding and offboarding, role definitions, performance reviews and training resulting in higher employee satisfaction and improved retention.• Built high performance software delivery teams by nurturing psychological safety and fostering a culture of innovation.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Managed the migration of multiple server and cloud-based supplier instances of Atlassian tools to a singular cloud-based instance. Integrating Atlassian best practice to support revised ways of working. • Led a team of technical resource managers driving the adoption of an agile mindset and championing its principles and benefits to the wider business focusing on predictable, high-quality delivery.• Oversaw three offshore development teams, implementing a KPI led, waterfall approach to incident and small change delivery resulting in a 200% increase in the number of incidents fixed, a 300 day reduction in average change age and a 400% decrease in unauthorised absence.• Supported the re-platform of GO Outdoors by re-defining priorities, identifying risks, and applying changes to the SDLC to successfully achieve a pre-defined go-live date.

Bad Berleburg

• Supported the group marketing director in project scoping, annual planning reviews, capital submissions and lifecycle checking during implementation of an online programme to subsidiary with varying turnover of between €1 Million and €30 Million p.a. Successfully achieving an online presence in 32 countries over five years.• Co-ordinated quarterly steering groups with the group marketing director, preparing international perspectives, capturing output from meetings, and following up on actions & outputs.• Influenced, by persuading C level stakeholders, the group business development strategy specifically with regards B2C. Based on international business analysis and fully understanding both B2B and B2C customer behaviour.• Led a development team including a PIM manager, Product Owner, and Junior developer, applying a clearly defined optimisation strategy resulting in all domains experiencing improved SEO Rankings month on month, increased audiences, increased conversion rates on registrations and downloads as well as increased sales for both new and existing customers (14% of distributor turnover online - €3 Million new customer turnover p.a). • Managed the international risk register ensuring any issues were identified, owned, and that all necessary mitigation activity was identified, understood, and undertaken. This resulted in efficiencies of scale in product development, enhancing individual go-public timelines by up to 6 months and reducing variable costs by up to 50%.• Created, managed, and tracked communication of all international project statuses, applying change management processes using Google Analytics and KPIs to justify decisions, providing a visual representation of cost vs. benefit (ROI).

• Managed pilot project scope, collaborating daily with the group marketing director to maintain a strategic product roadmap that identified deliverables and milestones, resulting in lessons learned in preparation for a subsequent international roll out.• Worked with the relevant departments to specify the resource requirements for each stage of the project to ensure these could be provided operationally during the three-year development, testing and go-public phases of implementing a fully integrated ecommerce platform.• Utilised change management controls and processes to ensure that any change in scope was dealt with appropriately, communicated and agreed at the highest level with all stakeholders. Resulting in high quality relationships with project stakeholders, a transparent and efficient plan with regards time, cost and quality as well as clearly understood responsibilities within teams.• Took responsibility by identifying and managing issues and risks that may impact the delivery or direction of the subsidiary project. The result being that I built up a high level of operational knowledge in both the PIM (Product information management) and CMS (Content management system) working operationally in a hands-on capacity.• Maintained a high degree of engagement and strong relationships both internally and externally to launch highly innovative and highly automated Hybris/SAP solutions resulting in a decrease in back-office costs and an increase in margins in online sales (Up to 40%)• Developed both new B2B and B2C customer business (Over 12000 Visitors and £1.2 Million per annum) by successfully developing internal solutions based on fully understanding customer and business requirements.

Sherburn In Elmet, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the annual statutory external audit reviews as a result of controlling all month end and year end procedures via SAP financial accounting (FI) and controlling (CO) applications.• Submitted annual, quarterly, and monthly group reporting requirements via SAP business warehouse (BW) application and using Microsoft Excel following on from Balance sheet and P&L account reconciliations in preparation of the monthly management accounts for the use of senior management as a decision-making tool.• Reconciled sterling and foreign currency bank accounts leading to daily, monthly, and annual cash flow projections, authorisation of payments and the monitoring of global markets leading to the buying and selling of foreign currency. (Predominantly the Euro and US Dollar). This resulted in a transition from a negative cash flow in 2002 to a positive cashflow from 2008.• Team leader of both the purchase and sales ledger teams.• HR responsibilities included implementation of fully automating HR and payroll systems, maintaining responsibility of the processing of monthly and weekly payrolls, including the annual and monthly statutory returns. Prepared all new and existing employee Contracts, Job descriptions and Inductions, applying processes for sickness, absence, and disciplinary actions. This contributed to staff sickness absence reducing by up to 60% over 5 years and the average length of service on a consistent upward trajectory.• Sub project management tasks included successfully implemented SAP ERP system migrating the financials from Sage Line 200

Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

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