Simon Chambers Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, GB

United Kingdom

Chief of Staff (CoS) to the Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Services. Developing Strategy for our Professional Services business, aligned to our corporate vision. Supporting and advising SVP, Global Services and other executives and leaders on strategy and transformation. Shaping and execution of the transformation program on behalf of the SVP..

United Kingdom

• Responsible for informing and influencing using data driven insights to make strategy and priority recommendations for Hyland. Acting as a trusted advisor to the organization, providing strategy consulting services.
• Strategic growth pursuits and organizational effectiveness.
• Existing, emerging, or new strategic market pursuits or expansions.
• Informing and making recommendations about investments in products and capabilities.
• Providing guidance and recommendations around organizational readiness for strategies.
• Addressing strategy and plan performance shortcomings or optimization opportunities.

United Kingdom

• Responsible for the successful delivery of Hyland Global Services Programs and Projects in the EMEA region. I lead cross functional teams of consultants, conversion and information management specialists from EMEA.
• Plan, lead and control complex projects and related personnel to bring projects to successful completion, within scope, on time and within budget.
• Lead team and client engagement meetings, ensuring timely follow-up and holding joint project team members accountable.
• Develop and manage project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling and ensuring there is a clear definition of done.
• Establish executive level relationships for internal and external audiences.
• Resolve conflicts and ensure at the business sponsor level that the solution or programme delivers upon expected customer's business value.

United Kingdom

• Main responsibilities:
• Successfully lead and manage service projects and programs to deliver customer benefits and maintain project performance.
• Support the customer Change process and help them realise their Return on Investment.
• Lead and coordinate Requirements Analysis, Prioritisation and Traceability for complex enterprise projects.
• Mentor and guide Service Consultants performing Requirements Analysis during the Discovery phase.
• Act as a Professional Scrum Master for Agile projects within the region, mentoring Scrum Teams and helping to remove barriers to success.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Forming and leading a cross functional programme team addressing a multi-billion pound opportunity. Leading business winning, developing business solution options to position BAE Systems to win and deliver the UK MoD’s.
• Developing and delivering the win strategy. Identifying customer hot buttons and operational drivers. Anticipating and discovering customer priorities and red lines.
• Leading communication with programme leaders, 1*, 2* and 3* senior stakeholders (the Defence equivalent of C-level). Developing open and collaborative communication relationships across internal functions and the wider.
• Authoring campaign white papers and presentations to build influence and realise win strategy.
• Building technology partnerships with potential partners.
• Influencing and developing the strategy for delivering secure deployed networks in the future.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Defining the market strategy and developing investment planning to expand the company’s Intelligence sector capabilities and address opportunities:
• Developing market strategy and business plan for core and alternative opportunities.
• Building Enterprise Architecture based approach to opportunities.
• Author and manage response to Pre-Qualification Questionnaires.
• Manage Campaign relationship with US Intelligence Technology Business.
• Develop Defence Information’s strategy position for Defence Cyber market.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Business development leadership to campaigns and opportunities. Customer and Business Stakeholder Engagement and Business Relationship Management. Leading and contributing to internal and external Land Sector bids and proposals.

Bristol, United Kingdom

A technical business development role for Defence scientific Research and Experimentation opportunities. Development and contribution to multiple Business Unit bids and proposals. Stakeholder Management of the Joint, Air and Land community R&D customer.

Farnborough, United Kingdom

Full management responsibility for the Battlespace Management Evaluation (BME) Centre business. Operational management of up to 40 strong project management, technical and facilities team.

Farnborough, United Kingdom

Project Authority and Programme Manager for BME Centre projects. Recruitment, development and mentoring of a team of project managers. Development of award winning business model and project management procedures. Proposal generation, negotiation and subcontract management.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Formed and led the team to develop the proposal and deliver the Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC) modelling facility. Development of contract with the Prime to develop the British Army’s Bowman Communications System Model. Development and maintenance of Project Schedule.Project reporting and control through Earned Value Management (EVM).

Bristol, United Kingdom

Managing the integration of the LSRC software systems and deputising for the System Design Authority. Design and development in Visual C++/MFC. Chair of the Change Control Board and resolving technical design conflicts. Management of integration and acceptance technical team at Defence site.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Developing mediation system software to interface client Information Systems with the Networks’ Telecoms Systems. Using Object Oriented Analysis and Design with development in C++/STL for Unix platforms.