Terry Robertson Email & Phone Number

Five things to know about me: 1) I have relocated back to Durham, my hometown, and am delighted to be in a leadership role that provides a sufficient level of challenge to build my professional career from the North East.2) Corporate Strategy Executive that gets companies to focus on why they exist and what they want to achieve. A deep commitment to sustainable business, sustainable profits and leaving the world in a better place. Achievements include:• Led board members and executives to a new strategic vision to improve economic prosperity of England’s seas while improving the marine environment. • A culture shift in executive decision-making away from silos, towards strategy, using a portfolio management approach. • Managed policy reform that helped save SIA from abolition with a new regulatory regime that cut costs by c. £7.5m and regulatory burden by c.£80m.3) 15 years experience delivering transformational change in public and private sectors. Former Big 4 Management Consultant with an independent perspective: Achievements include: • Built Cabinet Office best-practice change teams to bring order and good governance to 30+ disparate projects.• Led operational readiness to regulate c.4,500 private investigators post Leveson enquiry, in just 12 weeks.• Managed a successful top-to-bottom restructure of 200+ roles to reduce salary bill by £1.4m. • Delivered £160k per month saving to programme budget with a new resourcing strategy.4) Safe-pair of hands on executive responsibilities and corporate business. Achievements include:• Leading an overhaul of corporate planning and performance management that halved the time to publish business plan and focussed Senior Leadership Team on what it is we’re really here to do.• Resilient leadership to overcome challenges including: strategic delivery in teeth of Brexit, leaked Government intention to abolish, and turnaround of operational failure.5) Expertise in aligning common interests with partners and building teams that are diverse, flexible and fun to work in. Achievements include: • Built a new directorate (from scratch) of strategic, environmental professionals with a net investment of only £100k. • Led strategic horizon-scanning function across multi-agency partnerships and diverse stakeholders ranging from Ministers to those who want to scuba dive for litter. • Inclusivity ambassador for Senior Civil Service with a strong record of building successful, mixed teams of delivery partners, staff and interims.

Listed skills include Change Management, Business Transformation, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, and 15 others.

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  Deputy Director, Strategy

  Land Registry

  Durham, Gb