Simon Gibbs Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, Gb

New York, New York, Us

Product Management responsibility for identifying opportunities where tech-enabled advanced analytics and AI/ML can be applied to deliver high-value new product developments and service enhancements for the life science industry ensuring these solutions meet evolving customer needs and alignment with business goals and objectives.Responsible for developing and scaling our internal global data science capability to ensure organisational and resource alignment with strategic business needs and ensuring processes, architecture and tooling are embedded into product teams ways of working• Developed strategy for new AI/ML product development with specific focus on conceptualisation, market fit and client validation of new solutions• Led conceptualisation, prototyping and development of a new SaaS platform leveraging AI/ML to predict future clinical trial enrolment. Negotiated multi-year, multi-million pound partnership with a large industry client to co-develop and adopt the new platform enabling them to realise significant cost savings through consolidation of existing workflow tools and greater insight generation from integrated proprietary, licenses and real-world datasets• Identified opportunity to scale data mastering/integration microservices within the SaaS platform to offer a new data mastering service capability for both customers and internal use• Build and coach a new global data science team of 10 people, established ways of working to fully embed data science into product development process and collaborated with technology teams to identify new architecture required to enable the team

London, Gb

Developing and executing transformation product strategy for a portfolio of new advanced analytics and data integration products for the life science industry ensuring these solutions meet evolving customer needs and alignment with business goals and objectives• Establish overall vision for strategic growth across data and analytics solutions and led a global team of Product Managers, Product Owners and Data Analysts• Devised and executed strategy to drive growth in new data products through a strategic business transformation initiative driving £15m+ in net new revenue over a four-year period• Developed a new capability to deliver service-driven advanced analytics solutions to market leading to £2m+ in net new revenue• Established cross-functional product innovation function and processes to identify market opportunities and validate product concepts through rapid prototyping, iteration, feedback loops and scale-up• Initiated and led data standardisation, enhancement and integration efforts across the business providing greater opportunity for new product development and higher value data analytics • Active member of corporate development team supporting M&A and partnership identification and opportunity assessment.

London, Gb

Responsible for leading digital product strategy, product development and user experience solutions across a portfolio of B2B subscription products. Collaborate with senior business stakeholders to identify commercial objectives and develop capital expenditure investment plans for product development initiatives across the divisional portfolio. I am also responsible for ensuring development projects across the divisional portfolio adhere to budgets and central technology governance standards. Ensure technology platform decisions are aligned with business strategy and product development roadmaps, whilst identifying opportunities for product and technology innovation to drive increased customer usage, adoption and grow digital revenues.Lead a cross-functional team of project management, offshore development, UX and product design, QA and technical support.

London, Gb

Reporting into the divisional Business Intelligence CTO, I was responsible for collaborating with senior business stakeholders across several industry-facing businesses to identify and evaluate emerging technologies and trends that would drive new product development or revenue generating opportunities in alignment with the overall business strategy.Product Manager responsibility for several product technology platforms across the business with responsibility for maximising capability utilisation, benefits realisation, vendor management and budgeting.• Partnered with a technology vendor to develop an integrated mobile application framework and led product development and launch of several mobile applications for products across the business. Six months after launch the apps accounted for ~35%+ of total visits across all combined digital channels and had delivered ~700% ROI through new subscription and advertising opportunities.• Led the evaluation of BI data visualisation tools. The selection of Tableau initiated a data analytics transformation across the business delivering higher-value interactive data tools for our customers• Implemented an automated email newsletter delivery process and responsive design templates leading to a 10% increase in customer engagement• Developed a series of product development POCs in collaboration with key product stakeholders. These included a commodities tracker and healthcare data explorer built on connecting and integrating data assets across multiple product datasets

London, Gb

Responsible for leading a technology change project to implement and deliver a new content publishing platform for Lloyd's List daily newspaper and other products within the Maritime and Law division, as well as managing the vendor relationship, ongoing operational effectiveness of the system and support processes.

London, Gb

During this period I was responsible for managing an in-vertical technical support team covering application, OS and telephony systems and a centralised support team providing 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support for various publishing systems and databases, production workflow services and supporting infrastructure. My responsibilities included management of the IT Service management process, reporting against defined KPIs and providing technical expertise.

London, Gb

Responsible for managing the AO Phoenix (Quark/SQL) editorial system for Lloyds List newspaper and QPS editorial system for Insurance Day newspaper.I was also responsible for managing a number of Solaris and Linux (RHEL) database and file servers, publishing workflow tools (Helios) and Mac support over a number of remote sites (150+ users).