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A senior Project and Deployment Manager with 15 years’ experience. Business minded, well organised and technically astute with a strong understanding of the technical lifecycle of a project. For the last 8 years I have worked on global change and transformation programmes at British American Tobacco, implementing a global SAP template, and a Salesforce based global Trade Marketing CRM platform. Responsible for ensuring that global programme teams/suppliers deliver requirements and local business teams are prepared to implement the solutions in their countries to standard and on time. I have done this for multiple complex markets. Internationally astute, can adapt seamlessly to diverse environments and cultures and build advantageous business relationships across time zones, using collaboration tools for remote and virtual working (such as MS Teams, Skype, Zoom).Project managed large, complex change implementations and system deployments for over 15 years. Adept at pitching communication to all levels of seniority and providing technical and business translation. Significant project management and deployment experience in SAP, Salesforce, Azure, Cloud, Siebel, mobile apps, Anaplan, Microsoft Power BI amongst others, utilising Prince2 and especially Agile methodologies.A Certified Agile Practitioner, working as a key member in Agile forums to track progress and review priorities with product owners and developers.Recognised for successful achievements throughout my career.My areas of expertise include: Programme, Project & Change Management | Agile | Prince2 | Waterfall | Business Readiness | Decision making under pressure | Leader | Consultant | Project Lifecycle | Global/Worldwide/International | CPG / FMCG | Trade Marketing and Distribution / TM&D | Sales & Marketing | CRM | Manage Stakeholders | Manage Vendors | Engage & influence senior managers | Strategy | Business Processes | Benchmarking & business case | SAP Order to Cash (O2C) | Data, system testing & go live.

Listed skills include Service Delivery Management, Consultancy Services, Stakeholder Engagement, Business Transformation, and 45 others.