Stuart Howarth Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Macclesfield, Cheshire

• A leader of IT delivery of strategic investments (budget $80M+) across multiple business domains focusing on time-to-value acceleration across Platform and Product delivery.Focus on both strategy and execution by.
• Driving lean portfolio management and execution to AZ global markets
• Leader of a program delivery function driving $40+ Agile Release Trains
• Overseeing portfolio operations, coordinating and supporting decentralised program execution
• Developed portfolio governance models, ensuring oversight and decision-making across scope, budgets, and schedules
• Continual eye on operational excellence, sharpening the saw through continued measurement and evaluation of ways-of-working

Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Holmes Chapel

Part of a growing team of deeply experienced Change Leaders providing expertise in transformational and business-critical change across a large number of industry sectors.

Global

Ensuring blue-chip organisations were able to deliver on their strategic intent to implement technological change across both the Energy and Pharmaceutical Sectors. With the backing of a globally distributed network, deep and wide range of expertise, proven delivery methodologies and toolsets, IT Directors and Programme Leads business were able to realise.

Multiple roles across predominantly working within the Programme Management Office and Change Management functions utilising experience as a Project Manager and Workstream lead within the Oil & Gas industry sector

Cheshire, United Kingdom

Responding to the CIO’s desire to migrate Global IT hosting to the Cloud. Led the initiative to evaluate varying degrees of change, feeding transformation benchmarks and recommendations to the IT Programme Director and providing subject matter expertise on approach to ensure that strategic goals could be accomplished.

Cheshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery of portfolio of technical projects and initiatives supporting the continual development of AstraZeneca's globally distributed Nexus digital marketing platform.Key achievement included leading the delivery of a platform Upgrade across EMEA/US/APAC regions spanning 45 globally distributed markets. Project recognised as a “beacon.

Cheshire, United Kingdom

Working within an IT leadership group responsible for the delivery of the $3.3M Global Digital Services Programme consisting of 60+ resources tasked with both developing (AD) and maintaining (AM) Digital Marketing platform. Successes included developing and enhancing the programme Business Architecture, Technical Operations, and Federated Development.

Macclesfield, Cheshire

• Solely responsible for a $2.3M project to develop two highly regulated ERP hosting Data Center’s as part of a wider European IT transformation programme. Managed the end-to-end delivery from scoping to project sign.
• Assisting client lead IT stakeholders in executing an IT hosting provider review and feasibility study.
• Working with Accenture Alliances to expedite the end-to-end procurement process.
• Establishing and managing a core project group consisting of both internal and 3rd party delivery resources
• Delivered the full end-to-end project against plan and within budget receiving significant client recognition.
• Enforced a continuous improvement mentality to further reduce operational costs exceeding $150k/annum.Work effort resulted in achieving an “At Very Top” annual rating – meaning appearing in Accenture’s top 5% rated.

Cheshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for ensuring a harmonised and complex SAP solution was hosted, technically quality assured, and operationally released to the business as part of a European phase-1 roll-out. An exceptional delivery result continues to see strong relations with the client IT Programme Director.

London, United Kingdom

• Working as part of a change management function leading the rollout of operational processes for a newly created 'SAP Integrated Solution Design Centre' [Application Maintenance and Development function] to support.
• Co-managed the rollout of an ITIL Service Management practices into BP’s newly formed ‘ISDC’.
• Providing subject matter expertise on SAP Service Management processes and ways-of-working.
• Mobilised the re-engineered operating model to existing Design, Build, Test, Release and Change Control organisations.
• Partnered the Programme Change Lead in mobilising BPs Global Financial Template Solution Governance model and Quarterly Release Management process

London, United Kingdom

• Working as part of a ‘taskforce’ team assembled to rescue PMOs tools, processes, and ways-of-working for a failing multi-million dollar global SAP implementation. Working alongside the client Senior Delivery Director.
• Conducted multi-workstream ‘deep’ dive’ analysis of scheduling, resourcing, reporting, communication and governance approaches.
• Built and developed programme management processes and tools to support the projects’ monitor and control initiatives.
• Executed knowledge transfer exercise to ensure the wider PMO team were able to sustain the PMO office going forward into business as usual.

London, United Kingdom

Strategic Testing Workstream Lead accountable for an eight man shared resource team, responsible for the re-development and transition to business as usual of a Global SAP financials template Quality Assurance organisation

Working as a Subsea Engineer responsible for the Design, Procurement, Manufacture, Test, and Deployment of subsea control system equipment for the Oil & Gas industry. Customer base included 'supermajors' such as Shell, BP and Total and saw end-to-end delivery in a highly regulated but yet fast-paced arena.