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Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Leading, driving and supporting the delivery portfolios of projects ensuring they are managed to high professional standards and meet time, quality, and cost expectations. Developing and leading the organisation’s project management capabilities, providing project management and project office support for all business projects within the agreed business portfolio. Providing accurate tracking and reporting across all projects to enable governance of individual projects and the whole portfolio.Responsibilities:• Overall accountability for Project Management activities across the business. • Be the senior level project leader on key group wide strategic projects (e.g. business transformation projects, complex system implementation projects).• Establish and lead a team of project managers using best practice PM disciplines to successfully deliver projects measured against ROI, time, and quality KPI’s.• Establish and lead the PMO organisation. • Develop and implement a common set of best practices, principles, and templates for managing projects as well as tracking and reporting progress to executive management and shareholders.• Create and maintain a gated framework to manage projects consistently and to meet business objectives.• Manage the governance reviews relating to project performance, project change management signoff, and transitions in delivery.• Quality assurance and the overall integrity of projects; focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of each project, and outwardly on their coherence with all other organisation initiatives and ongoing operational cadences.• Ensure project reviews are regularly and effectively conducted to drive plan, monitor, and control the delivery of programmes to schedule, budget and to the agreed quality level. Ensuring the proactive management of project independencies and risks.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

British standards Institution (BSI) Regulatory Services (RS) division monitors and regulates the release of medical devices against various certification schemes. Joined to support overall end-to-end deliveries on business-critical initiatives.Key deliverables:1. Scrum Lead for Continuous Improvement Programme for a State-of-the-Art Angular Application with a £0.6M P/A budget2. One of eight workstream leads for a £36M+ transformation for the RS business stream.3. End-to-End Agile delivery of a state-of-the-art Angular application written in JSON to support the delivery of BSI’s global client audits with a budget of £1.5m.4. Waterfall portfolio delivery of system and procedural changes required for BSI-RS to deliver accreditation against the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) for its UK Notified Body (NB) with a budget of £1.1m.5. Upgrade of BSI-RS bespoke document and workflow engine. Critical to deliver on time due to end of life for support of current application version.Key responsibilities:1. Facilitate business cases and support in consolidating requirements and form a project requirement matrix to baseline the scope.2. Ensuring the requirements, development, QA, and testing are all coordinated correctly and executed according to the predefined processes within the scheduled timeframe.3. Report to the steering committee about the project progress, risks and issues that require attention.4. End-to-End delivery included ensuring Change Management, Communication and Engagement and Training elements are all clearly managed and delivered.

Accountable for Planning, delegation, Implementation and Control of all business critical projects. Reporting to key stakeholders on executive board with monthly financial and technical updates of any known issues/risks.Key Deliverables1. Waterfall delivery for the Migration of Microsoft Services that the business has used to the office365 cloud environments. 2. Delivery of PowerBI into the business, incorporating, business Management Information requirements as well as tiered model for franchised network.3. End-to-End Sage X3 ERP Implementation4. Embedding ISO9001 (quality management) and ISO14001 (Environmental Management) standards across organisation and its franchise base.Key Responsibilities 1. Management and creation of all project documentation, project briefs, registers, and reports. Project.2. planning, resource allocation and budget management.3. Managing and motivating project teams, consisting of both internal staff and external suppliers.4. Vendor selection processes and supplier management.

Responsibilities: Managing marketing projects for franchise network and for centrally operated units. End-to-end responsibilities including vendor selection processes, through to contracts, deliveries and transitions into BAU.Key Deliverables1. Implementation of Dynamics365 CRM across the business and its franchise partners. Included development of detailed migration documentation for data and strict risk management protocols to ensure minimal disruption of service. 2. Delivery of network wide Ecommerce ordering platform. High levels of complexity due to how Chemex International supply their different customer types. Successful rollout resulted in reduction of order processing time by over 50% and an increase in order fulfilment accuracy by 5%.3. Managed the transition of all PR activities to internal resources, reducing marketing spends by 16%.4. Successfully managed roll-out of new multisite Email Marketing platform across internal business and franchise network resulting in an increase in customer communication by 12%.5. Managed roll-out of new franchisee technical apps resulting in the company winning the BFA Franchisor of the year award for Innovation 2014.Key responsibilities 1. Organise all collateral for franchise exhibitions including in house design of print and digital publications.2. Close supplier management of Telemarketing partner company for both corporate and franchisee campaigns.3. Supplier management of over 15 partner suppliers for content of all franchisee recruitment portals to strengthen brand message.4. Responsible for the overall planning and management of Annual Marketing forecast for both the franchise network and company owned units.5. Responsible for the planning, delegation and delivery, of company wide marketing initiatives.