Saara Laspa Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Uk & Republic Of Ireland

Very excited to begin a new journey with C&C Group, helping set their Data Programme up for success. A wonderful team and org with exciting goals. Looking forward to working with you and 'bringing joy' to your customers and shareholders.

London, England, United Kingdom

Kicked off and managed a transformation programme of work to consolidate two products from acquired business (value: $100M+) in multiple countries within the product framework from the acquiring parent business division.Established a runway to develop the strategy for consolidation by sensitively coordinating the Leadership Team, Product, Technology, Tech Architecture, UX and Security from across the divisions through a series of Workshops to share information, build trust, establish ways… Show more Kicked off and managed a transformation programme of work to consolidate two products from acquired business (value: $100M+) in multiple countries within the product framework from the acquiring parent business division.Established a runway to develop the strategy for consolidation by sensitively coordinating the Leadership Team, Product, Technology, Tech Architecture, UX and Security from across the divisions through a series of Workshops to share information, build trust, establish ways of working, and measurable milestones.Secured budget for a co-located workshop in New York to create the delivery plan for the integration programme to streamline ways of working and minimise risk. Leveraging C-Suite to drive business decisions of senior management.Reported progress, risks and planned mitigations to the C-suite related to the intra-division integration, and the sensitivities involved.Coordinated change management of the programme with C-suite and relevant stakeholders, leveraging relationships to minimise negative impact, conscious of the sensitive nature of the programme.Nurtured a team through Agile maturity as Scrum Master for the ongoing development of a contract drafting tool used by leading UK law firms.Reduced dependencies and risk by introducing Event Storming to the team and stakeholders, consolidating understanding of the systems, processes, and customer needs, and minimising misunderstanding.Coached the project team on appropriate ways of working and culture change during the migration from a local-business unit operation to a global programme.Managed a time-sensitive office closure and re-allocation of staff to other sites to timelines and budget.Established sequence and timing of key milestones with the Managing Director, Senior Leadership, HR, Finance and third-party technical contractors.Ensured confidentiality was maintained during the planning activity, and monitored that communications were handled sensitively. Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

Encouraged and supported the collaboration of divergent content, data delivery, and technology teams in delivering business KPOs.Consulted with strategic and commercial owners of products (Both Operational and Commercial) to consult and make recommendations for upcoming technical projects and developments that have real impact on the customer’s User Experience and back office load. Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role did not directly control… Show more Encouraged and supported the collaboration of divergent content, data delivery, and technology teams in delivering business KPOs.Consulted with strategic and commercial owners of products (Both Operational and Commercial) to consult and make recommendations for upcoming technical projects and developments that have real impact on the customer’s User Experience and back office load. Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role did not directly control resources.Project Managed initiatives working with multi-national Engineering teams to deliver relevant data pipeline improvements.Contributed to the definition of data standards, including master data, reference data and metadata, applying domain expertise.Managed business requests for process and engineering changes, allocating tasks to the appropriate teams to ensure effective delivery and maintaining key project deliverables while managing change in the delivery pipeline Show less

London, United Kingdom

Organisational change support: delivering migration (from the US to UK) of systems supporting product technology including knowledge-sharing with a broad range of engineering and delivery teams for both OPEX and CAPEX projects.Customer entitlement and metadata Subject Matter Expert (SME).Metadata governance across all flagship products.Liaising with Engineering/UK Delivery and Product Management to enhance business systems, delivering content to customers effectively.Project manager… Show more Organisational change support: delivering migration (from the US to UK) of systems supporting product technology including knowledge-sharing with a broad range of engineering and delivery teams for both OPEX and CAPEX projects.Customer entitlement and metadata Subject Matter Expert (SME).Metadata governance across all flagship products.Liaising with Engineering/UK Delivery and Product Management to enhance business systems, delivering content to customers effectively.Project manager and stakeholder in both Waterfall and Agile/Scrum environments.Role within vast organisational change relating to the localisation (from the US) of systems supporting product and content delivery, including knowledge-sharing with development teams.Consultation on migrating pipelines and stakeholder roll-out strategies.Departmental prioritisation and senior leadership influence of backlogs in line with Product and technology strategies.Product owner and freelance manager of an ancillary content product within flagship product.Establishing best practice and lean workflows for technical content publishing. Working with new Agile Development teams on metadata architecture using to migrating legacy systems.Motivating real and virtual teams, managing and developing through training and relationship development their expanding contribution to department functions and processes, fulfilling business objectives.Virtual team engagement across many projects with International Content, Content Acquisition, Product Development, Fabrication, Pricing, Business Development and Product Adoption, Fulfillment and offshore suppliers to align conflicting strategies to deliver quality products to market. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Product owner of content metadata-to-product pipeline.Metadata SME: creation, implementation and management of business rules surrounding product metadata and related systems.Metadata management and consultancy with Engineering and Product teams across multi-million-pound products.Project Management of large business acquisitions exhibiting team leadership with virtual team integrationGathering and recommending data business requirements in line with content… Show more Product owner of content metadata-to-product pipeline.Metadata SME: creation, implementation and management of business rules surrounding product metadata and related systems.Metadata management and consultancy with Engineering and Product teams across multi-million-pound products.Project Management of large business acquisitions exhibiting team leadership with virtual team integrationGathering and recommending data business requirements in line with content strategy.Initiating online content publishing priorities and process improvements.Relationship and ‘council’ initiator across world-wide business units to establish best practices in data management, raising competing business risks and mitigation of these risks to all stakeholdersRecruitment, onboarding and training of team members from November 2015 acting in a supervisory capacity.Managing fulfilment of new menus/products, maintenance of existing subscriber products and analysis and decommissioning of products.Analysis and reporting of evolving requirements (including forecasting) of technical product enhancements with a view to symbiotic process removal and content enrichment. Show less

Managing print process from manuscript, to typesetting, printing and finishing.Managing supplier relationships to avoid slippage.Business Analysis and consultation to suggest improvements to internal user systems.Managing project responsibilities and communicating, at both team and executive level, the development, user testing and education required to onboard users to a company-wide MIS system.Full Project Lifecycle experience (Waterfall & Agile).Writing Business Cases… Show more Managing print process from manuscript, to typesetting, printing and finishing.Managing supplier relationships to avoid slippage.Business Analysis and consultation to suggest improvements to internal user systems.Managing project responsibilities and communicating, at both team and executive level, the development, user testing and education required to onboard users to a company-wide MIS system.Full Project Lifecycle experience (Waterfall & Agile).Writing Business Cases, Feasibility Briefs, designing UIs and developing testing reporting methods (including User Stories and scripts).Estimating production costs of hard copy products.Reporting and presenting initiatives, change proposals, and business continuity risk management to management. Facilitating tenders to current and potential suppliers. Show less

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