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West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for developing capability, capacity and standards across the Transformation Profession. This included setting strategy and creating profession product including career pathways and facilitating training.
• Developed business change and benefits management services for change across the organisation from strategy to implementation.
• Led design and execution of change activities across change… Show more
• Led design and execution of change activities across change portfolio including ensuring clear vision, impact analysis, development of plans, supporting materials and facilitation with business users, collaborating.

• Programme Delivery Manager for Transformation Programme delivering 2 public services to GDS service standards, holding responsibility for a range of areas including benefits management, risk, finance, contract \.
• Product Lead for reporting product and supported product management and service owners across wider programme and services.
• Developed user-centred focus and engagement for services through user groups, pilots and regular show… Show more
• Developed user-centred focus and engagement for services through user groups, pilots and regular show and tell sessions, demonstrating continuous iteration and improvement to reflect user feedback.
• Developed positive relationships with internal external stakeholders, including opportunities for developing ongoing collaboration with external partners.
• Head of Change across wider organisation, leading design and execution of change activities across change portfolio including setting vision, impact analysis, development of plans, supporting materials and facilitation.

• Created operational improvement function from initial scope to a high-performing team, developing additional capability and capacity for change delivery across organisation in regulated environment.
• Product Lead for key inspection applications including leading stakeholder engagement, prioritisation and business change activities.
• Developed and delivered a range of initiatives to resolve key organisational challenges including developing the employee journey, a rapid replacement for… Show more
• Developed and delivered a range of initiatives to resolve key organisational challenges including developing the employee journey, a rapid replacement for inspection surveys and implementing agile ways of working.
• Led internal consultancy for process improvement and business change, process redesign and problem solving across organisation operations and project assurance.
• Led business change and ongoing engagement for all digital, technology and transformation projects and execution of change activities including development of plans, supporting materials, building a change agent.

• Supported implementation of new target operating model following insourcing of inspection services.
• Led digital transformation to support recruitment, onboarding and management of large freelance workforce of 3000+, providing single view of supporting data. This included acting as product lead to prioritise.
• Led on development and implementation of business change and… Show more
• Led on development and implementation of business change and prioritisation process for core applications. Show less

• Responsibility for the operational delivery of Central Government contract including managing technology delivery, risk management, governance, standards, assurance, budget management and commercial \ contract.
• Product owner for inspection technology systems including prioritisation and supplier management.
• Led Investors in People accreditation through improved focus on employee processes and systems at time of challenging customer… Show more
• Led Investors in People accreditation through improved focus on employee processes and systems at time of challenging customer savings targets whilst maintaining high operational performance.
• Led insourcing project of contract, including TUPE for all staff, change management and property.
• Supported other contracts across wider organisation through operational and assurance reviews and developing and implementing IT strategies.12 month secondment to Ofsted to provide support for insourcing of inspection.

Led a range of commercial and internal services to over 130 educational establishments. This included delivering a range of technology projects for internal and external customers and ongoing stakeholder engagement across a range of public and private sector stakeholders.

Providing technical and implementation consultancy for a range of Microsoft products across multiple sectors including Financial Services and Social Housing.

Working for this software provider to the Hospitality sector, fulfilled a number of roles in support and implementation through to leadership and management of support function on 24\7\365 basis.