Chris Hartley

Group Account Director at Cognifide

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Recruitment consultants: 1) I'm not involved with recruitment and can't help you place staff, so please don't contact me for this purpose! 2) If you want to offer me a role, I'm pretty happy where I am, so it had better be fantastic.... I run a global automotive account for Cognifide, with teams in the USA and Europe, implementing Adobe Marketing Cloud technologies. These days, my specialist subject is delivering complex multi-phase, multi-team Agile programmes for the largest customers. I started out building web sites in 1998, and since then have progressed from Front End development through Project and Programme Management to leading accounts. The common thread throughout my career has been a strong desire to ensure the customer gets the best possible outcome, and a pragmatic and flexible approach to achieving it. My career includes experience in a wide variety of pure project management roles, including working in digital agencies, client side and running the Programme Management Office on a large construction and IT programme. This range of experience has allowed me to explore and adapt the processes necessary to deliver projects in a variety of situations. I have a pragmatic approach to the methodology that I use to deliver projects, believing firmly in changing approach according to the situation: - I was a PRINCE2 practitioner and have practical experience implementing it from the ground up within local government role and agency roles. - I am a Scrum master, and have experience of managing and contracting around Agile projects.

Experience

  • Cognifide (14 yrs 6 mos)
    • Group Account Director
      Nov 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

      I lead a global automotive account, with teams in the USA and Europe. We are implementing Adobe Marketing Cloud technologies for the customer on a multi-phase multi team programme.

    • Programme Director
      Aug 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 11 mos

    • Programme Director
      2012 - 2013 · 1 yr

  • Head of Digital Producers at VCCP
    Nov 2011 - Jun 2012 · 8 mos

    VCCP are an advertising agency whose clients include O2, EasyJet and Microsoft. As HoDP I was responsible for managing a team of 14 producers and 1 User experience specialist and accountable for delivering all of the digital output from the agency. Types of work included banner and other ad units, Facebook applications, microsites and simple corporate web sites.

  • LBi (4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Programme director
      Jan 2009 - Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      LBi’s clients are divided into 4 portfolios, each led by Client Partner and a Programme Director. Clients in the portfolio include Virgin Atlantic Airways, Compare the Market, Electrolux, M&S, Capital One, Truphone, Centrica, Grolsch, and Peroni. I was accountable for the delivery of all of the projects within the portfolio and measured and remunerated based on the financial performance of the portfolio, in particular on targets for gross margin, write off and day’s sales outstanding.

    • Senior Project Manager
      Nov 2007 - Jan 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Senior Project Manager at digital agency LBi.

  • Haringey Council (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • PMO Manager, Building Schools for the Future
      Sep 2006 - Nov 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

      PMO manager for Haringey council's Building Schools for the Future programme; a £300m programme to rebuild and deliver new IT to secondary schools across the borough.

    • PMO Officer
      Jun 2005 - Sep 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Working on the council's tech refresh programme, implementing more than 5000 new desktops around the council.

  • Project Manager at Ion Global/ Aspect Tech/ LBicon
    Sep 2004 - Jun 2005 · 10 mos

    Working on a variety of projects, including as on-site PM at First Choice for 8 months.