Crowthorne, England, United Kingdom
A highly accomplished and motivated Senior Executive with a career history in Portfolio, Programme, Project & PMO Management. Experienced in working in both the private and public sectors and a wide variety of complex multi-phase programmes and projects, balancing commercial need for agility and pace with a modern approach to governance and control. Notably employed as Chief Transformation Officer accountable for the achievement of the organisation’s strategic goals and realisation of business benefits through delivery of all Corporate Change Initiatives and associated governance, prioritisation and reporting processes. Consults and communicates with all stakeholders up to and including board level to ensure a successful outcome. Experienced leader of organisation wide transformational change strategies. Specialties: Organisation design Portfolio, Programme and project management PMO management Business change projects Agile deployment Stakeholder management Risk management Budgeting / forecasting Benefits realisation Reporting and analysis
Delivering Programme FOCUS, a corporate transformation programme design to improve the Speed and Service of the Bauer Media Group Corporate Functions whilst delivering efficiencies.
Leading and coordinating delivery of the Eriks group strategy through a pipeline of major change programmes and projects. Reporting directly to the Group Board I act as a leader and role model for the behaviour needed to encourage and embed change and achieve our strategic goals.
Responsible for the prioritisation and management of circa £40m investment of strategic business change portfolio. Delivery arm of the company's ambitious growth strategy, delivering system and business change programmes and projects across all territories and business areas. Continued improvement and development of the company's programme / project management capability and governance structure. Provide central programme / project assurance, reporting, risk / issue / resource management and facilitate decision making at a board level. Coaching and support of programme / project management community and development / sharing of best practise.
Capita National Strategies - circa £100m contract with Department of Children Schools and Families to deliver national school improvement projects and programmes. Initiated and managed refinements to business project processes and to the project methodology driving efficiencies aligned to PRINCE2. Responsible for the strategic planning of the company’s £105m Annual work plan with the client, department for children, schools and families (DCSF) for 2010 – 2011. Developed and delivered the Annual Plan Programme process; supporting documentation and guidance to Senior Management and the Project Management Team to ensure successful delivery of the projects. Developed and delivered regular Annual work plans to the DCSF to timeline. Accountable for the launch of a new automated Change Control system to replace the manual method of approving changes within the forty projects. Engaged with teams across the business to ensure that Project Management processes and systems were designed to support all aspects of the business and retained a high profile for the team. Provided presentations; coaching and mentoring across the business. Interviewed, recruited and developed induction processes for new hires. Managed and responsible for a team including a Change Officer; Annual Plan Officer and Personal Assistant Officer including managing personal performance, appraisal and training plans.
Managed team of Project Managers ensuring successful delivery of concurrent projects totalling circa £5m, to aid improvements in the standards of teaching and learning in Early Years, Primary and Secondary Schools in England. Responsible for leading and motivating of Project Managers and support staff so that work on the projects, were delivered to time and to the achievement of educational project objectives. Worked strategically within a team of Portfolio Managers to ensure that consistent standards of delivery and reporting were achieved. Researched, planned and gained approval from Capita management and DCSF civil servants to introduce ‘Stage Plans’ into the National Strategies project methodology to improve the quality of project planning, reduce change requests and to improve financial forecasting. Successfully delivered a project to introduce a National phonic programme for primary schools that due to its political sensitivities required careful and thorough management. This involved regular negotiation and communication with key stakeholder groups including Senior Civil Servants. Responsibility for financial management and reporting within the programme team and worked to automate the monthly accruals process and to improve the standards of forecasting project outturn across the Programme team.
Delivered a revised on-line teaching Framework for Primary schools for which I achieved a Capita Excellence Award. Matrix managed a team of educationalists, web producers and copyeditors to ensure the website project was delivered on time and within budget. The website was proven to be a valuable tool for many Primary school teachers as it has to date received over 4 million visits since its initial launch. Provided regular project reports and scenario plans to Programme and Project Board consisting of Directors; Senior Managers and Senior Civil Servants for ratification. Produced detailed project plans and local work schedules and updated them with progress. Monitored and implemented project control processes, including Risks; Issues; Assumptions; Dependencies; Lessons Learned and Actions to completion. Focal point for project status; communication and information for project stakeholders. Managed project team members and those affected by the outcomes.