Steven Reid Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the global activities in technology, innovation, new product development, product management, security, quality and process excellence. Provides leadership in determining and executing short and long terms strategies, plans, goals and polices.Overall responsibility for Compliance, Operational and Product Sustainability, Supplier development.

Woking

Crewe

Coordinating Bentley's response to the challenges provided by leaving the European Union. Working with Customs, Logistics, Purchasing, Finance & HR to assess all risks and ensure mitigating strategies are developed and delivered

Crewe, United Kingdom

Working within the Strategy PMO as part of the CEO's office.

Leading Clients through Strategic Change initiatives, providing programme and project management oversight. Creating conditions for success and managing cultural impact to deliver the required business outcome.Working within businesses to create and develop Project Management Offices (PMO). Tailoring methodologies and tools set to match specific needs of the client.Consulting with key business owners on Process Re-Engineering activities, providing practical recommendations to deliver operational change.Recovering failing Projects and Programmes. Gaining clarity of status, understanding key risks. Establishing and actioning recovery plans to re-establish confidence around agreed expectations. Providing ongoing support to ensure continued control through to completion.

Stockport

• Full Financial Management of a P&L. Full process development from a clean sheet to provide an annual budget submission with monthly forecast & reporting resulting in a variance of less than 3%.• Working with HR a robust appraisal and onboarding process was developed to support the core business strategy. Included SMART objectives in the setting of annual goals, enabling personal development and stimulating innovation.• Embedded Root Cause Analysis and Problem Solving tools into Engineering and Technical Services, resulting in improved turn round of in field issues and helped to improve customer satisfaction.• Responsible for the justification and selection of 3rd Party partners to support overall delivery of projects, building costs into business cases and working with the legal team to develop binding contractual agreements and statements of work to ensure success.• Established links with the wider organization to drive cross fertilization of best practice, leveraging knowledge and technology, ensured alignment and eliminated duplication. • Appointed as Internal Consultant, developed a New Product Introduction Process for a $10M start up business through facilitated workshops and process mapping. Managed the role out and ensured alignment between all business functions helping drive year 1 revenue forecasts. • Created and submitted full businesses cases to gain funding for strategic initiatives. Working with cross functional teams, highlighted the business need and benefit for each activity. • Recovered failing strategic initiatives. Investigated and understood route causes enabling recovery plans to be developed and actioned. Mitigated against further risks to ensure delivery against expectations.

Stockport, United Kingdom

• Centre of Excellence Lead for Project Management within the Stanley Security Business providing guidance and mentoring to the wider project management community.• Established Project Management forums, driven continual improvement of programme and project management processes, through the identification and adoption of industry best practice. This resulted in cycle time reduction through the adaption of agile, improved Change and Risk Management techniques.• Audited all projects to ensure execution in accordance with the Project Management Plan. Deviations were addressed through corrective actions controlled through a full Change Management process.• Provided a monthly Senior Executive and Sponsor reporting format, to monitor progress against key milestones, adherence to budget, timelines and to highlight key risks. Enabled the opportunity for direction and decision making to ensure that all projects continued to meet corporate objectives.• Constructed a New Production Introduction process for the $998m Stanley Security Europe Business. Enabled the platform to have greater alignment between forecast & post release sales numbers, ensuring the return on investment expectation was met.

• Set up and developed a Global PMO, providing a structure to support strategic projects through the provision of a full Project Management Methodology. Delivered associated tools and templates, ensuring continuity of approach, governance and reporting.• Developed communication management plans in alignment with stakeholder requirements to ensure key initiatives were fully understood and bought into, allowing all internal and external parties, to contribute, and build effective and credible relationships.• Lead a Business Transformation initiative to introduce of a full Product Lifecycle Process across a $250M global business platform, resulting in greater financial accountability, generation of rolling strategic roadmaps and improved commercial positioning.• Project Manager on a number of exhibition displays with budgets in excess of $1M, provided for Senior Executives, shareholders and customers. Increased business investment and sales opportunities were realised across all vertical markets.

Responsible for overal management of the R&D department. Process owner for New Product Introduction across the business