Stephen Morrice Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Programme manger for our key Finance Transformation initiatives, shifting shared services to India, merging global processes and transitioning from SAP to Oracle, achieving operational savings over £35m.• Aligned Finance operations, reporting and technologies with our partner company Comcast, enhancing financial accuracy and compliance.• Redefined the Finance target operating model, implementing new people strategies, performance governance, and technology frameworks.• Spearheaded the experimentation and implementation of AI solutions within SKY Finance, improving consistency, efficiency, and quality of project and business processes and reporting.• Formed and led a Change Governance & Continuous Improvement Team providing portfolio management, PMO, project management and change management services – supporting multiple ERP and transformation programmes for SKY Finance and Procurement working across sites in London / Edinburgh / Germany / Italy / India / Philadelphia.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Programme managed the Helios programme which implemented a new target operating model in Vodafone, redefining the global shared services centres organisation structures, value delivery mechanisms and partner frameworks with a target to achieve 350m savings over five years and significantly improving customer engagement.• Led a transformation to achieve Enterprise Agility through the adoption of SAFe and lean-agile culture, processes, and tools across the organisation, top down approach coaching leaders and delivery teams.• Created a “hub and spoke” LACE team dedicated to implementing the SAFe Lean-Agile way of working.• Implemented a new Portfolio Management and strategic enterprise PMO operation for a 5-year Shared Services transformation initiative to deliver £350m+ of value working across shared services in London / India / Romania / Egypt. • Led a team supporting the portfolio operations, working with IT, business owners and product managers across three service lines and four enabling functions – managing multiple ERP and Business projects and programmes.• Facilitated operational financial budgets and spend cycles, managing £50m+ annually.

London, United Kingdom

Interim Director role reporting to the CFO to bring back on track +250m Finance Transformation Programme- Implemented hybrid Scaled Agile model based on SAFe and new APMO function – operating a portoflio with three development value streams to improve the core financial operational value stream.- Led a small LACE team to coach leaders and upskilled agile teams – cultivated a lean-agile culture and re-established the basics of agile cadence and synchronisation.- Within six months, the programme was delivering value and outcomes to plan - recognized by the CFO as a great success with the overall value delivery was back on track before I left.

International

Working in a global programme delivery role manging a broad range of IT/ERP and business change programme spanning supply chain operations, finance, vaccines, and respiratory working in the UK / Europe / Asia / Americas / Saudi States. • Established a Programme Portfolio, PMO and Project Management team, standardised Lean-Agile and Waterfall governance frameworks.• Implemented a central service that supported the deployment of global project/programme initiatives, which included in-country planning and implementation workshop, business change management, engagement, and training workshops for deployment across 30+ countries.• Implemented and rolled out a Global Health Care Professional Engagement compliance programme.• Programme Managed a 50m digital marketing operating model transformation and technology role out globally.• Managed a programme to migrate stock, logistics, business processes and IT systems, rationalising twenty to eight new bonded multi market warehouses for European and Saudi State distribution.• Multiple office migrations, new locations set-ups, including people and logistics planning. • IT Programme Manager - System Continuity Programmes, Multiple hardware/software system upgrades and patches, ERP system migrations, computer room server hub installations.

Reporting to the CTO, to implement a +50m digital marketing operating model transformation – deploying standard digital channels and marketing technologies, digital marketing capabilities, upskill of resources and ways of working and across multiple countries and above country business functions- Established the overall Programme APMO and Project Management team, defined Lean-Agile and Waterfall governance structure, coordinating and providing support, training and oversight to a portfolio of over 20 projects deployed globally.- Coached leaders and upskilled agile teams – championed an agile delivery culture and established the basics of agile cadence and synchronisation.• Deployment of standard digital channels and marketing capabilities and technologies• Upskilled resources & ways of working for 24 countries & above country business functions• Full remit of stakeholder management and engagement, partnership & deployment planningKey achievements and business outcomes include:• Led portfolio of 20+ projects & teams, with adherence to execution standards / governance• Delivered a waved industrialised global deployment approach conducted over 60+ countries• Engaged with in-country GMs, senior leaders & HCP stakeholders to support culture shift• Deployed 6 standardised digital channels; portal, email, webinar, app, click to chat and DA • Played critical role as personal resilience lead, with responsibility for over 150+ GSK members• Gained recognition from CEO for delivering the transformation programme to a tight timeline

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the migration of IT infrastructure to 6 multi-market warehouses across Europe• Appointed to lead the recovery of a previously failing critical deployment programme• Identified key issues, generated solutions and re-established clear scope and timelines• Directed negotiations to ensure all stock adhered to local gov and international compliance• Realigned key processes to bring the project back on track and achieve an on-time delivery

Brentford, London

Responsible for leading the complete transformation of GSK’s internal supply chain process• Successfully led the implementation of new systems, IT infrastructure & business processes• Spearheaded the establishment of a programme PMO & command control organisation• Defined programme governance requirements to ensure effective risk management• Effectively communicated and nurtured relationships with key stakeholders and 3rd parties• Developed finance frameworks to enable quality assurance and increase programme integrity• Efficiently managed the resources allocation across all workstreams for multiple programmes

United Arab Emirates

Responsible for managing the deployment of and complex migration to a new Dubai based warehouse• Led all programme planning and establishment of a PMO to enable successful migration• Monitored progress, resolved issues & generated solutions to keep programme on track• Led testing and deployment of business, user & warehouse systems before go-live dates• Managed and negotiated excess stock transfers to ensure adherence to compliance

London, United Kingdom

Accountable for the deployment of a new internal financial trading partner for GSK’s Consumer business based on a SAP platform.

London, United Kingdom

SAP migration, business process rollout and capability build

London, United Kingdom

Various software and infrastructure change and upgrade projects

London, United Kingdom

32 IBM mainframe and server upgrades / migrations

London, United Kingdom

Project-managed computer room relocation

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science, 1St Class Hons

Hnd Computer Science, It

Btec National Diploma, It, (Merit)