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London, England, Gb

Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best sports, outdoor and lifestyle brands. We own Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, ellesse, Kickers, Red or Dead, KangaROOS and Mitre. We’re a global business, with 21 offices in four continents, our products are available in over 190 countries and are sold either directly or by licensees and distributors.Accountable for driving the technology and cyber strategy encompassing all elements of the technology ecosystem. Responsibility for the people and commercial agenda across the IT organisation. Deliver technology change and integration initiatives focussed on portfolio acquisitions and divestments. Stakeholder engagement with key leaders ensuring strong business partnerships and connectivity across functional areas.Passionate about people management and personal development to help our people be the best they can be.Focussed on enabling customer focussed solutions not product led technology.

London, England, Gb

Accountable for the global teams in California, London, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Auckland encompassing:• Workplace Technologies (Smart Meeting Places, AV & VC, and Desktop Support)• Collaboration Services (Microsoft M365 / Teams Ecosystem)• End User Computing (Service Desk)• Unified Connectivity (Wide, Local & Wireless Networks, VPNs, Cellular, Cisco and Microsoft Telephony, Firewalls)• Platform - Compute, Storage and DR (VMWare, HP, Nimble, Azure, AWS and GCP)• Cyber Security and GovernanceLed the implementation of an organisation wide strategy to setup our Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Bangalore. A cross functional facility encompassing Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Digital and IT.

London, England, Gb

Leading a global business applications function encompassing teams responsible for Project Delivery (Agile, Waterfall), Systems of Record (SAP AFS, HANA, Success Factors, PLM, JDA) Systems of Engagement (Hybris, Salesforce, SAP PO), Data and Insights (SAP BW, SAP BO, PowerBI). Strong focus on thoughtfully embedding solutions across the organisation to enable end user effectiveness, efficiencies and adoption. Change management, adoption measurement and continuous improvement practices embedded.Responsible for maintaining an organisational structure to optimise capacity and capability, ensuring the team is setup for performance and success. Diverse profile includes mixture of insourced onshore and offshore teams, contractor, augmentation partner and ad-hoc consultancy resources.

London, England, Gb

Responsible for the platform strategy and delivery, which encompasses connectivity, private cloud, virtualisation and storage, public cloud based technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, and collaboration services utilising Microsoft Office 365. End to end solution and service delivery from architecture to engagement, acute focus on end user benefit and business strategy alignment.Responsible for ensuring the operating costs are negotiated keenly to ensure operating cost efficiencies, expertise in vendor and partner relationships to ensure agreed solution and service metrics are delivered or exceeded.Co-Led the IT function during 2016 prior to the appointment of the CIO in 2017.

London, England, Gb

Responsibility for connectivity, virtualisation platform, storage, and enterprise application enablement.Led a multi-million pound infrastructure modernisation and consolidation programme; including networks, servers, storage, desktop computing, and productivity tools. Enabling significant financial overhead reductionOver an eighteen month period introduced frameworks and standards to reduce high priority incidents by 60% and introduced capabilities to build a high performing global team.

London, England, Gb

Responsible for identifying, governing and implementing infrastructure technology investments to ensure that they delivered a technical architecture for the future, had reusable components, reduced TCO and were fit for business need.Project managed global and regional IT projects for the organisation; working with executive level stakeholders, third party vendors and internal project teams. Managing expectations and keeping communication channels open with clarity. Identification and the communication of challenges and opportunities to protect project stability and efficiency. Championing project management methodologies and frameworks to ensure resource, timescales and costs were manged to plan.

Ownership of the infrastructure strategy (definition and delivery), principles, standards, technology roadmap, design and guidelines.

London, England, Gb

Technical support and project delivery for all areas of the infrastructure environment, with a strong bias towards Local and Wide Area Networking.

Antwerp, Belgium, Be

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