Richard Wells

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Senior Project Lead at Defence Equipment & Support, Ministry of Defence @
Richard Wells's Location
Thornbury, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Richard Wells

A dynamic and innovative Business & IT Programme Manager with extensive experience of programme delivery, transformational change and strategic implementations. Significant experience of delivering results across financial services and public sector. Achieves deadlines and performance targets to timescale and budget, whilst offering extensive leadership and management experience within operations and customer services. Offers a practical, creative and objective approach with high attention to detail.

Richard Wells's Current Company Details
Defensive Equipment & Support, Ministry of Defence

Defensive Equipment & Support, Ministry Of Defence

Senior Project Lead at Defence Equipment & Support, Ministry of Defence
Richard Wells Work Experience Details
  • Defensive Equipment & Support, Ministry Of Defence
    Senior Project Lead
    Defensive Equipment & Support, Ministry Of Defence Aug 2020 - Present
    Bristol, England, United Kingdom
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Digital Transformation – Programme Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
    Newport, United Kingdom
    Led digital transformation programme providing customers with an alternative channel of choice to register and update their Insurance claims online. • Negotiated and procured SAP Commerce software licence to ensure customers’ digital transactions can be processed through SAP Claims Management application. • Established Digital LAB, mapping of customer journeys and empowered feature teams to progress proof of concept activity to widen learnings before delivering changes through a succession of iterative sprints.• Delivered digital doc upload solution to enable customers to provide photographic and video evidence to support their claim. • Ensured digital architecture can be re-used to support future digital strategy of servicing customers’ insurance policies online. • The digital solution will deliver outcomes of reduced settlement times by 30% for customers, reduced call volumes into the telephony contact centres and provide significant savings to the overall cost of a claims, circa £10m annualised benefit. • Supported Group Transformation Programme to help roll out of agile training for colleagues within the value stream for agile coaches, scrum master and product owner roles.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Strategic Sales Platform – Programme Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
    Newport, United Kingdom
    Programme manager responsible for delivering a renewal solution onto new sales platform following the launch of new insurance products. • Led 6 work streams to deliver changes across Finance, Customer Documentation, Pricing, Customer Operations, Underwriting and IT & 3rd party systems. • Delivered solution within 12 months regulatory window during a period of significant transformation change and disruption.• Engaged with business stakeholders to successfully deliver and embed changes utilising internal and external partners such as Accenture & Duck Creek. • The successful delivery of the renewal solution has enabled the programme to realise the benefits of circa £35m. • Worked in collaboration with Financial Conduct Authority and other insurance providers in designing customer insurance renewal wording around pricing that was subsequently standardised across insurance sector.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Portfolio Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group Oct 2013 - May 2016
    Newport, United Kingdom
    Directed a portfolio of projects to deliver legal, regulatory and mandatory changes to comply with both EU and UK law alongside service sustaining projects with an annualised budget of £15m across the Lloyds Home insurance business.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Senior Project Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group May 2013 - Sep 2013
    Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Senior Project Manager - Migration Strategy As lead project manager, I was responsible for shaping and delivering the migration strategy which included the delivery of 2 dress rehearsals and the main migration of circa 1.5m life insurance policies from Aviva in-house to Scottish Widows.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Senior Project Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group Dec 2011 - Apr 2013
    Newport, United Kingdom
    Integration of Halifax & Bank of Scotland Insurance Policies Accountable for shaping and successfully leading the Implementation workstream to migrate 1.7 million HBOS customers’ insurance policies across to Lloyds systems. Designed implementation strategy and structured implementation workstreams to support dress rehearsals, business readiness, cut-over plans and command & control.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Senior Project Manager
    Lloyds Banking Group Feb 2005 - Nov 2011
    Newport, United Kingdom
    Responsible for delivering the following projects over this period:-Motor Strategy Successfully delivered the Motor Strategy project involving the transfer of Motor Insurance business for both new business and back book insurance policies across from two existing contracts under Esure & RBSI to one provider, BGL. Telephony IntegrationManaged a telephony project which involved setting up the IT infrastructure to be able to support an upgrade to EWFM 7.2 (Enterprise Workforce Management) for both the Sales and Marketing and Customer Services Contact Centres. This allowed staff to effectively manage their workflow and resources real time. Migration Programme In-housed the migration of home insurance policies from 10 external panel of insurers into Lloyds Banking systems. This involved actively managing each insurer to deliver to the timescales stipulated within each contract. SAP Integration Project managed from shaping through to delivery, the migration of SAP into General Insurance (GI) Loan Protection Creditor department and removing existing legacy systems. This change was successfully transitioned across a department of 150 staff. Supply Chain Delivered a web based supply chain management tool administered by RSA into GI Customers Services and Claims department giving greater visibility to track claims end to end with external suppliers and loss adjusters. Managed a budget of £13m across IT and the business.
  • Vosa
    Project Manager
    Vosa Nov 2004 - Feb 2005
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    Managed an EU regulated project to put in place digital taco graphs across all HGVs across the British Isles. This involved working with an external IT supplier in designing digital taco graphs that became a mandatory requirement for all HGVs to have installed by 2006.
  • Key Business Solutions Ltd.
    Project Manager
    Key Business Solutions Ltd. Apr 2003 - Oct 2004
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    Working with Key Business Solutions as a business consultant specialising in business analysis, process re-engineering projects and delivering process and project management training to blue chip clients such as Barclaycard and Centrica
  • Barclays
    Project Manager
    Barclays Mar 1998 - Jul 2002
    London, United Kingdom
    Led a team of 20+ staff responsible for Finance, Project Office, Management Information, Quality Controls, Business Continuity, Project Management and Unit Cost Analysis for 3 Operational Centres within the UK.

Richard Wells Education Details

  • Pangbourne College
    Pangbourne College
    8 'O' Levels & 1 'A'' Level In Economics

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