Director Of It Operational Services
London, London, Gb
Promoted to lead “Run” function and transform from a stable IT operation to a lean, agile, business aligned service. Reported into CIO with responsibility for Service Delivery, Service Management, Applications, Infrastructure and Security.Responsible for 110 internal staff across 6 UK sites, delivering high quality 24/7 service. - Created and drove delivery of operational roadmap to take team from a “keep the lights on” function to a forward thinking, innovative and business enabling team who provide reliable, secure and cost-effective services as standard. - Achieved significant annual cost savings by leading a cost optimisation exercise underpinned by efficiency savings, automation, supplier rationalisation and shifting workload to lower cost points in the organisation.- Designed Technology target operating model and built transition plan to improve agility, use of data, customer centricity and cost efficiency. This included a move towards agile working and devops.- Led infrastructure transformation programme delivering more cost effective, flexible, scalable and resilient services through migration to a new network, specialist datacentres and leveraging latest platform and cloud technologies. - Achieved operational readiness for business supply chain transformation programme (largest in publishing history) without any significant business disruption, and by building long term internal and external capabilities.- Created workplace strategy and associated project portfolio to allow the user community to work more flexibility, productively and collaboratively. Included Office365, cloud file sharing and follow-me printing.- Improved security by building new capabilities including business and technology teams, processes and governance. Delivered a number of security projects and implemented a business security awareness campaign.