Richard Bradley Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

C.I.KNOW. Is a Technology consultancy and services business incubated in 2019 specializing by leading in IT and Business Strategy, Innovation and Delivery.We specialise in working with and through CIO’s and business leaders to build and deliver strategies for a digital world and drive holistic transformation through people, culture and technology change. Powered by diversity, anchored by a track record of delivery and global experiences across a number of business sectors, and bound by… Show more C.I.KNOW. Is a Technology consultancy and services business incubated in 2019 specializing by leading in IT and Business Strategy, Innovation and Delivery.We specialise in working with and through CIO’s and business leaders to build and deliver strategies for a digital world and drive holistic transformation through people, culture and technology change. Powered by diversity, anchored by a track record of delivery and global experiences across a number of business sectors, and bound by common values of delivering outcomes that drive personal and organisational excellence each of our team bring their difference every day to power your transformationDifferentiated on the strength of its industry expertise and business understanding, CIKNOW services clients in FMCG, and Travel, Transportation and Hospitality. Show less

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Leading the Twinings IT response for the implementation of a CDP/CRM and DAM capability for global adoption. The initial part of the project focusses on vendor selection and ensuring they meet Twinings IT standards and policies before moving to an implementation in a small number of markets as a Proof of Concept.

Uk & France

Analysing the UK and France Heineken markets, to understand their IT spend and find opportunities to find savings and more efficient ways to run the IT function. This was a short term contract working across the IT Team to produce a deck and proposal for the relevant Heads of IT and the Europe CIO.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for coordination of the Cloud Migration programme across the different projects in; British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Cargo, with specific focus on Risk Management, Audit and Reporting.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managing IT Transformation activities at DO & CO:Cloud Transformation Project - Moving all on premise servers in Austria & Germany into AWSIT Service Management Tool - implementing a tool to support all aspects of IT SM including; incident, request, asset, configuration, problem, knowledge and change managementNew ecommerce Site - ran an RFP and selected a partnet to help implement a new ecommerce website for Demel, a heritage cafe in Vienna and took the project through to… Show more Managing IT Transformation activities at DO & CO:Cloud Transformation Project - Moving all on premise servers in Austria & Germany into AWSIT Service Management Tool - implementing a tool to support all aspects of IT SM including; incident, request, asset, configuration, problem, knowledge and change managementNew ecommerce Site - ran an RFP and selected a partnet to help implement a new ecommerce website for Demel, a heritage cafe in Vienna and took the project through to implementation. Show less

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Project managing the migration of a complex eCommerce site, from Kentico to Shopify Plus.

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Joined as a Business Engagement partner to prove the worth of this IT role to 3 key business units, working with their respective FD’s and business teams:- Creation of 5 Year Technology Roadmaps, aligned to the business strategy, supporting the implementation of technology across the business.- Developed a business case to support the re-platforming Twinings UK Website into Shopify and started the move / implementation- Built a business case to support the implementation on an AI /… Show more Joined as a Business Engagement partner to prove the worth of this IT role to 3 key business units, working with their respective FD’s and business teams:- Creation of 5 Year Technology Roadmaps, aligned to the business strategy, supporting the implementation of technology across the business.- Developed a business case to support the re-platforming Twinings UK Website into Shopify and started the move / implementation- Built a business case to support the implementation on an AI / ML tool to read invoices and started the implementation- Ran a project to implement a new Portfolio, Project Management Tool set for NPD Show less

Responsible for the provision of local IT Services across 80 markets & 18k users in Europe & Africa, managing a budgetary spend of £25m, with a team of 70 IT professionals. This role was focused on developing and implementing an IT Strategy aligned to our overall business objectives, delivering on the digital transformation agenda, ensuring the silent running of IT Operations, managing both local, global & strategic partners, finding operating efficiencies whilst delivering and supporting… Show more Responsible for the provision of local IT Services across 80 markets & 18k users in Europe & Africa, managing a budgetary spend of £25m, with a team of 70 IT professionals. This role was focused on developing and implementing an IT Strategy aligned to our overall business objectives, delivering on the digital transformation agenda, ensuring the silent running of IT Operations, managing both local, global & strategic partners, finding operating efficiencies whilst delivering and supporting technology changes.  Developed a strong multidisciplinary team with a focus on digital self-learning and development  Implemented and supported BAT’s digital transformation across EMEA Reduced costs through targeted savings, such as desk side support & cloud migration  Implemented a compliance programme across all European markets to align to the latest legislation (Sox, GDPR & tobacco product tracking) Show less

Sydney, Australia

Led an IT team of 20, to provide Business Partnering, manage IT Services and deliver IT changes through an annual IT spend of £5m, operating in 6 countries (Australia, New Zealand, PNG & South Pacific Islands), supporting a business of 1800 employees, making profits of £700m annually. This role focused on delivering business priorities, ensuring IT overheads were in control whilst finding ways to reduce the overall IT TCO. Australia is a highly regulated market and a key focus for this role was… Show more Led an IT team of 20, to provide Business Partnering, manage IT Services and deliver IT changes through an annual IT spend of £5m, operating in 6 countries (Australia, New Zealand, PNG & South Pacific Islands), supporting a business of 1800 employees, making profits of £700m annually. This role focused on delivering business priorities, ensuring IT overheads were in control whilst finding ways to reduce the overall IT TCO. Australia is a highly regulated market and a key focus for this role was to ensure that as a business we could continue to operate effectively whilst being aligned to local legal regulations. Created and implemented a 5-year strategy to transform the IT environment  Implemented a transformational approach for IT Services outsourcing  Supported the landing of the first BAT single SAP template implementation Led the local implementation of a B2B global web ordering system  Developed a road map to transfer the local DC to Azure, reducing costs by £3m pa. Show less

Moscow, Russian Federation

LeD an IT team of 20, managing an IT spend of £5m, operating across: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia, supporting business operations of 2000 employees. Within Russia, my supported a field force of 1200 operating out of 90+ offices across 9 time zones whilst ensuring the ongoing provision of service in a market with complex regulations. Business Partnering with the Area Leadership team Supported a large complex field force expansion, ensuring ongoing… Show more LeD an IT team of 20, managing an IT spend of £5m, operating across: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia, supporting business operations of 2000 employees. Within Russia, my supported a field force of 1200 operating out of 90+ offices across 9 time zones whilst ensuring the ongoing provision of service in a market with complex regulations. Business Partnering with the Area Leadership team Supported a large complex field force expansion, ensuring ongoing support Implemented a regional HR system, including payroll outsourcing, increasing operating efficiency Implemented a new Sales reporting system, creating a single source of the truth Show less

Moscow, Russian Federation

Led an IT team of 10, business partnering with the Operations leadership team across: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Kazakhstan, the Caucuses and Uzbekistan, supporting 7 factories and multiple warehouse operations. Supporting 2000 operations staff and a supply chain that stretched across 9 time zones and multiple warehouses. The focus was on providing IT systems that could improve the efficiency of manufacturing and the supply chain.  Transformed the Operations IT… Show more Led an IT team of 10, business partnering with the Operations leadership team across: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Kazakhstan, the Caucuses and Uzbekistan, supporting 7 factories and multiple warehouse operations. Supporting 2000 operations staff and a supply chain that stretched across 9 time zones and multiple warehouses. The focus was on providing IT systems that could improve the efficiency of manufacturing and the supply chain.  Transformed the Operations IT team Supported the implementation of APO (DRP & DF), managing the ongoing support Created & implemented a strategy for appropriate IT transformation of the factories  Led the initial EEMEA IT project for the BAT single SAP template implementation Show less

Working in the Global Strategy and Planning team, this role focused on leading a change within BAT to become more focused on project and programme management. This team reported directly into the CEO and worked on all strategy related initiatives within BAT.  Developed a project portfolio management approach for all global projects and programmes Rolled out PRINCE2 and Managing Successful programmes (MSP) globally across BAT Developed and ran Project Management Training… Show more Working in the Global Strategy and Planning team, this role focused on leading a change within BAT to become more focused on project and programme management. This team reported directly into the CEO and worked on all strategy related initiatives within BAT.  Developed a project portfolio management approach for all global projects and programmes Rolled out PRINCE2 and Managing Successful programmes (MSP) globally across BAT Developed and ran Project Management Training Courses Facilitated workshops for major BAT business initiatives Show less

London, United Kingdom

This role focused on running the Global IT PMO which involved, proving monthly reports to the Global IT Leadership Team, proving a consultancy service for all Global IT projects and leading the move from an in-house Project Management methodology to PRINCE2 and MSP.  Rolled out PRINCE2 & MSP to the Global IT Project Management community

London, United Kingdom

As part of the Global Programme team, managing different projects for BAT, this included moving the support of our Trade Marketing and Distribution system to an outsourced model run out of India.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the UK Infrastructure, managing a small team of highly skilled consultants, covering 3 factories and multiple office sites across the UK.

Aylesbury, Uk

Operating as an IT project manager, responsible for running projects across EMEA.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Studies