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Port Sunlight, England, United Kingdom

Port Sunlight, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for ensuring successful IT portfolio delivery for the Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) Supply Chain function.- Collaborate with senior business stakeholders including the SHE VP and regional SHE directors to understand and map business goals to IT requirements.- Act as a SME for IT platforms under the Portfolio; providing leadership for Application Support, Information Security, and Infrastructure Management activities.- Establish and maintain appropriate governance for all application and infrastructure projects within the portfolio including relationship management of 3rd party suppliers.- Lead delivery of strategic projects impacting a global audience, ensuring benefits to business leadership and end-users are realised.Achievements- Lead the successful delivery of a strategic global reporting platform with minimal disruption for 4000+ monthly users across 500+ active Unilever sites. Ensuring business continuity was not impacted through a robust Change Management programme.- Delivery of a wide range of projects delivering business value including process automation, mobile technology, infrastructure, and application projects.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Client-facing Project Manager responsible for the successful delivery of projects across multiple government accounts.- Manage stakeholder expectations, ensuring that projects are delivered to requirements, timescales, and budget.- Risk, Cost, and Schedule management, producing internal and external governance packs to report on project progress.- Finance management for a large programme of work, ensuring expected costs and revenue are tracked and reported accurately.Creation of clear communication channels between client, third party, and internal project resources.Achievements- Lead client-facing Project Manager delivering major application and infrastructure projects to a large DWP agency worth a combined total of over $1.5M revenue on time and within budget.- Successful delivery of a complex banking switchover for a large DWP agency, seamlessly migrating between two multinational banking providers.- Project start up and delivery of a large infrastructure project. Ensuring different approaches were explored, hardware costs were driven through, and forecasted timelines were accurate.- Managed delivery of LAN network infrastructure changes to a large number of courthouses, prisons, and probation centres as a subcontractor for a large telecommunications company.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

PMO support providing a wide range of functions to various programmes of work on the DWP account.- Governance – Maintain and explore improvement possibilities on standard processes and procedures including project start-up and progress monitoring, control, and reporting.- Planning/Scheduling – Creation, baseline and maintenance of project schedules, producing project status reports, and assessing any required change to project forecasts and baselines.- Risk Management – Risk, Assumption, Issue, and Dependency (RAID) identification, analysis, and reporting.- Financial Management – Creation and analysis of financial reports including cost, revenue, and man day spend against commercial vehicles.- Quality Management – Adhere to the EDGE quality process framework and perform Work Product Review process ensuring all project documentation is peer reviewed and baselined.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Working as the Demand Planner for the MOJ (Ministry of Justice) account on the PMO team.- Management and maintenance of the demand for a large government account- Supply & Demand reviews with capability leads – resolving open vacancies & driving through gaps- Daily / Weekly / Monthly Analysis & Reporting- Location / Migration / Accommodation analysis- Collate information for and run the regional and sub-regional resource allocation reviews- Drive through resource planning process ensuring consistency and full stakeholder buy in- Ensure demand for new opportunities is accurately forecasted and in a timely manner for start of contract

Warrington, United Kingdom

Application Support – Support government systems that require SC level clearanceProvide second line support for both Production and Non-Production environmentsDevelopment and testing of fixes for application faultsOn call responsibilities that include OOHs migration of changes to production Change Management – Change manager for live service change requestsRun CCB meetings twice weekly to manage new changesAttend the client’s monthly CAB building a close relationshipManagement reporting including hours worked on change requests a monthCapacity Management – Assist with monitoring system capacityCollate data for use in the monthly capacity reportBusiness Analyst – Assist in day to day run of UKPS Bus Ops teamCreation, production, and analysis of Business intelligence data and presentation materialDefine necessary analytics, design and ongoing development of needed reportsActively involved in business solutions and red team activities