Simon Bickerdike Email & Phone Number

A professionally qualified insurance practitioner with a strong delivery focus. Capable of matching technical competencies and people management skills to effectively co-ordinate projects. With my business knowledge and excellent technical insurance skills, both theoretical and practical, along with strong numerical and problem solving abilities I am a proven solution provider mixing quality with pragmatism. Very professional and reliable I have a strong goal focused outlook. I am a confident communicator with proven team building skills and ability to adapt to new working environments and responsibilities extremely quickly.During my career I have developed a strong consultative and project management background, working in the following areas:• Leading the management of client transitions, including data migration, gathering technical insurance business requirements, development and integration of to-be business processes and external supplier on boarding.• Running legal restructuring projects for insurance portfolios (Part VII transfers).• Project management for application development, data migration and transformations, reporting solutions and strategic change initiatives. Working in various roles including IT project manager, programme office and test coordinator.• Co-ordination of approaches to multiple new business opportunities, directing project teams efforts from lead or invitation to tender stage, through due diligence, to production of proposal and operational implementation of new business.• Managing the implementation of CRM systems, including user requirements gathering, vendor selection, system view designs, data migration and user training.• Strategic business plans for new product/service offerings, annual service delivery business plans, corporate re-branding, large scale corporate entertainment events and marketing research projects.

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  University Of Plymouth

  Business Studies