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Contract and interim consultancy delivery services on strategic transformation programmes; Cloud Programme & Change design, development, and implementation of Enterprise solutions; and business wide operating systems analysis, alignment and improvement for clients. Managing the business' development including client tenders, bid preparation, contract negotiations and company finances.Client commissions include:- Head of Change & Client Resources Management - Mastek (2 years)- Programme Manager & Change Manager - Evosys Global (2.5 years)- Oracle Cloud Programme Delivery Manager - Evosys Global (2 years)- Programme Manager - ERP/HCM Cloud, Student Loans Company (19 months)- Business Change Manager, Network Rail Infrastructure Projects (5 months)- Change Manager, Royal Bank of Scotland (2 years)- Project Manager, Arcus - Sainsburys (16 months)- Commercial Manager, Carillion Business Services (10 months)- P2P Business Process Improvement, Alfred McAlpine (8 months)

Promoting the consultancy in tenders and to clients; managing assignment teams during client engagements; evaluating client systems and practices to make improvement recommendations; designing, developing and delivering solutions; overseeing day-to-day assignment operations within time scope and budget; and being the client’s key contact. - Account Lead - Benefits Management, UK Gov’t Financial Services Agency: managing a team of consultants developing and deploying the client’s enterprise-wide Benefits Realisation Framework and Management system. Working with client executives and senior management to improve programme and project management maturity, improve the business cases for change and establish a benefits approach that supported a technology transformation programme achieve £80m+ of benefits.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Promoting the consultancy in tenders and to clients; managing assignment teams during client engagements; evaluating client systems and practices to make improvement recommendations; designing, developing and delivering solutions; overseeing day-to-day assignment operations within time scope and budget; and being the client’s key contact.- development of business plan to successfully implement change Process Improvement, UK Gov’t International Department, which would increase cohesion, collaboration and capability whilst delivering a leaner, more customer focused quality of service with increased operating capacity.- Facilities Options Appraisal, UK Higher Education University - Developed and delivered a savings proposal for UK City Council to rationale property and construction supplier base, targeting £millions leveraged savings

Delivery of consultancy, contract and interim services in strategic change execution; programme delivery; design, development and implementation of project solutions; and business wide people, process and systems analysis, alignment and improvement for clients. Managing the business' development including client tenders, bid preparation, contract negotiations and company finances.

Delivery of consultancy, contract and interim services in strategic change execution; programme delivery; design, development and implementation of project solutions; and business wide people, process and systems analysis, alignment and improvement for clients. Managing the business' development including client tenders, bid preparation, contract negotiations and company finances.

Project implementation of Oracle ERP modules for the division’s enterprise system investment programme. Managed a team of colleagues and suppliers responsible for redesign of a standard divisional commercial approach, change management and project risks and issues. Preparing the system’s design and configuration, tested and commissioned the system as fit for financial and operational purposes, cleansed and migrated data then decommissioned the legacy Axapta ERP system

Progressed customer and supplier relations through managing the commercial, financial and procurement obligations for the retail business area to achieve client contract deliverables. Managing c£150 million of client budgets and £22 million of P&L accounts with a team responsible for providing, commercial, financial, procurement, projects, supplier management, business support and payment services for 650+ client sites and c160 FM suppliers

Provided systems management, test engineering, process inspection and asset management expertise on customers’ products with teams of software developers, systems engineers and maintenance technicians. Supported customer tenders and acted as the point of contact on technology related topics and product line setups.Delivered a programme to modernise engineering services which delivered investment in staff development, leaned operational practices, managed European technology benchmarking, updated aged equipment and expanded operational intelligence to increase equipment utilisation and production productivity.Applied Agile project methodology to design, develop and implement a bespoke database management system and management information with modules to control reactive and planned maintenance, calibration and asset life-cycle management. Applied statistical process control to reduce equipment downtime and increase maintenance productivity.

Supervised software and system engineers, delivering manufacturing test solutions to maximise build quality whilst optimising production throughput and yields. Project managed the software development, set up and improvement of customers’ products and production processes. Applying Lean and Six-Sigma, designed operating processes, planned resourcing, and equipment capacity for batch and continuous flow processes. Developed vendor product standards and selection criteria, and process commissioning guidelines that optimised product reliability and process compatibility, reduced spares holding costs.

Standalone consultant involved in complex problem solving role in an international customer based environments. Consulted on products, systems and production design; partnered clients in third party ventures and tenders; developed turnkey program test solutions and provided on-site production support.

Mba

Ba (Joint Hons)