Simon Hughes Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Through the delivery of major business transformation and change programmes. Jell Consulting unlocks innovation and new growth opportunities for clients. Via interim roles and strategic transformation placements, we enable our clients to navigate through the disruption created by emergent digital technologies. As the pace of change across the globe is increasing, markets are being disrupted, creating new competitors, and bringing traditional competitors together as collaborators. This disruption requires an agile approach to strategy, business development, innovation and digital transformation. Jell Consulting brings an agility to its clients, unlocking opportunities to create new synergies that deliver competitive advantage.

As a non executive advisor to the board; my focus is on designing and supporting the implementation of the growth strategy for the business, by utilising my Fintech, Proptech and investor networks

London

The Cause Effect is a consultancy that works with clients across multiple sectors to unlock performance from their business strategies and organisational Purpose. When organisations, teams and individuals care about what they do and do it with purpose, they are more successful, happier and deliver better outcomes. We help organisations to understand their purpose, and become purpose led. We work with the hard tangibles like data, analytics and science as well as the not-so-tangibles like leadership, people and the rough and tumble of emotions. This enables us to inspire shifts in behaviour; greater possibility; to build resilience and authentic leadership. By doing this we help turn purpose into measurable performance improvement. We deliver both short impactful intervention projects, as well as oversee long term transformation programmes.

London, United Kingdom

LIQUID. is an organisation set up to drive technology transformation and change in real estate and financial services through innovation and collaboration. Shaping the future of these markets through successful transformation and Innovation, enabling better quality, sustainable, and performing assets

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I was responsible for the creation of the corporate innovation strategy. Deliverables included designing training courses to unlock people’s ability to identify market trends and opportunities for market backed innovation; creating a global digital innovation road map to unlock digital innovation across the business and its 27,000 employees; developing the framework principles for digital transformation. I fast-tracked new solutions through a design sprint process. I developed a client engagement strategy that focused on client led co-creation of solutions, which put Arcadis at the heart of the development of its clients' required solutions.

United Kingdom

I was responsible for design and delivery of the sector GTM Strategy and Business plan for the UK & Ireland region. I owned multiple client relationships from Executive Board level, through to hands on delivery teams. Working with my team of sales professionals, and delivery leads we delivered in excess of 15% year on year growth of the sector. My role required me to coach and develop both internal and external senior business leaders how to unlock the exponential benefits from the business transformation solutions delivered at Arcadis.

Europe

Seconded to the new Global Business Advisory function I was responsible for driving business change across the Industrial, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Manufacturing sectors at a global level. I was seconded to the European team, based in Germany engaging on a day to day basis with business units in France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Eastern Europe, North America and Asia.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

As part of the Management Consultancy Leadership team I was responsible for the GTM strategy for new value propositions that I developed, sold, & delivered. These solutions provided strategic business transformation for clients. In a trusted advisor role I was responsible for planning & executing strategies that optimised the construction, operation, use and ownership of built assets.My previous roles have included:Head of Commercial Cost Assurance •Leading the creation of a service line across the group •Owning and setting the GTM strategy to develop sales, service capability and the proposition •Developing and managing operational processes and financial delivery, performance and risks•Developing and implementing the strategy to integrate the service line into the management consultancy divisionHead of Industry, Infrastructure & Utilities Sales •Developing and implementing the operation, sales and delivery strategy •Ensuring the governance is in place to deliver the sales and associated projects•Developing a market entry strategy, including proposition development and implementation •Managing resource to ensure effective skills and resources are in place to deliver Commission Leader•Leading large scale strategy and transformation projects; setting up and managing project teams, ensuring high quality delivery•Managing project resources and the implementation of client facing solutions•Project and Programme ManagementThrough close links with the markets in which I have worked, and my extensive relationships with clients I have successfully designed, developed and sold multiple value propositions. •Commercial Cost Assurance: - Supply chain assurance•Intelligent Cost Reduction: - Efficient delivery of capex programmes•Strategic Procurement: - Procurement and operational strategy•Programme Optimisation: - Integration of projects to deliver efficiencies•Opex Optimisation: - Optimising operations to deliver cost reduction

As a shareholder and Director of a niche Oil and Gas investigations company I was responsible for managing complex international investigation projects through the entire project life cycle in locations such as Egypt, Nigeria, Lithuania, USA and Russia. Identifying project requirements, resourcing, and controls, including financial and budget control, risk assessment and management, and cost estimating. I was responsible for managing the development of a new computer forensics company and the inception and development of a Sarbanes Oxley solutions department, combined with day to day operations of running a small business, with many clients and contractors involved in different projects across the world

Digital Disruption : Digital Transformation Strategies

Digital Transformation & Digital Business Models

Msc, Construction Cost Management

Bsc Hons, Transport Management