Meudon, Île-de-France, France
I am a well-respected and experienced transformation leader working with executives to pivot their organisations, helping them transform and accelerate their business performance effectively to drive growth and sustainability. I hold a MBA in Strategy and I am a Chartered Project Professional with over 20 years of leadership experience, mentally agile and highly adept at directing strategic and operational business change. I pride myself on being a competent professional, skilled at agreeing strategies with executives, leading portfolios of diverse capital investments and successfully directing complex programmes and projects of scale. I offer a vision-driven approach to decision making, strategic portfolio transformation, business change management, and delivery that applies to multiple industries. My strengths include programme and project management, leadership and people development, coaching and mentoring. I am a trustworthy leader who invests in people, consistently driving my teams of professionals to meet and exceed their personal and corporate goals.
A leader in Thales Global Services responsible for leading the Bids and Projects Function strategic alignment and transformation programme to deliver Thales Towards 2030, directing a core team and influencing over 6,500 Thales BPM staff globally. Key responsibilities include animating transformation, accelerating growth mindset and providing expert operational leadership to global business units, business lines, entities and country teams in all geographies. Ensuring complex Bids and Projects are winnable and deliverable, leveraging digital enablers and benefiting from optimised tools, as well as capitalizing on lessons learned and sharing best practices with the Thales Bids and Projects community to remain world class.
A leader in Thales UK responsible for Bid, Project & Programme Management (BPM) and Portfolio Performance, directing a team of 11 and influencing over 800 Thales BPM staff. Accountable for functional leadership and support for the Bid, Project Delivery, Portfolio Management and Business Change communities across Thales UK entities driving capability improvement, tools optimisation, competence development, project controls, portfolio performance, business transformation and change. Leading on behalf Thales and representing BPM on MoD Strategic Partnering Programme and Partnering Executive Meetings. Driving professionalism and maturity of the enterprise teams, focused on people development, talent management and sponsorship of Recruitment Accelerators, Leadership and Early Careers programmes to ensure availability of strategic capability to meet future growth and demand. Networking across Thales globally and within the UK, empowering BPM function to work transversally and collaboratively with all UK business units and other global entities. UK sponsor for global capability improvement and project efficiency initiatives. Chairing the BPM Council, securing strong engagement with all Heads of BPM to drive excellence in functional discipline, compliance to best practice, influence in adopting a growth mind-set with associated behaviours and engendering continuous improvement and professional maturity. Driving the digital agenda and working in collaboration with Delivery Assurance to provide leadership and guidance in support of critical live Bids & Projects across the Thales. Working in close collaboration with other functional leaders, including Engineering, to deliver world-class solutions to our customers on-time, to the highest standards and supporting profitable growth.
Country lead and process owner providing guidance, coaching, mentoring, training and hands on support to our project delivery community across Thales. In this dynamic role, I am responsible for leading a team of highly skilled specialists in driving portfolio wide competence, skills, and capability improvement, transformation, business change and general project support, ensuring we deliver outstanding value to all our business units across Thales Group. My hands-on leadership and coaching are critical to actively supporting our Project leaders and communities by establishing and executing Project Management Controls in line with Thales processes/ways of working and customer requirements.
Director on Strategic Bid team responsible for Portfolio and Programme management to ensure we effectively drove accelerated growth for our Search & Rescue (SAR) Mission Systems business. As a member of the Portfolio Office I was responsible for Major Programme and Contract assurance and compliance through application of corporate governance and upholding Delivery Framework, associated policies and procedures. As Programme Director I was responsible for overall Programme and Project management for all SAR related endeavours, leading a team of Programme and Project professionals supporting our colleagues to deliver world class SAR solutions for our customers.
Led the improvement of enterprise governance, capabilities and capacity, assuring customer and company-funded projects and programmes globally. Chairing the global Programme & Project Management Council, promoting standards and transformation. Managing the Enterprise Portfolio Office, ensuring strategic alignment across sectors and business units through investment in people, processes and technology. Key achievements include: • Introduced, led, and deployed simplified Programme and Project Management delivery framework that reduced enterprise risks and increased effectiveness through improved governance, assurance and control. • Accelerated adoption of governance by driving engagement and collaboration with Board, General Executive, Senior Programme and Project leaders, and enterprise wide teams. • Coached Senior Sponsors, trained and supervised 200 project professionals, increased overall team competence and capability and improved portfolio margin contribution by 1.5%. • Designed and led development of innovative online Gate Review Scorecard application which significantly lowered governance burden, improved portfolio performance and health transparency.
Led project and programme office driving policy, process, and methodology in EMEA and Asia-Pacific region. Orchestrated major business transformation resulting in significant savings and increased operational excellence. Key achievements include: • Established, created, and employed standard operating frameworks that delivered consistent governance, increased assurance, control and predictable project outcomes. • Led objective, independent bid proposal and project assurance reviews that challenged business teams on project viability and identified weakness or root causes of potential failures. • Reversed underperforming large-scale mobilisation programmes within 9 months bringing them in line and met customer expectations. • Led major business transformation and organisation redesign programme to remove sector function and establish stand-alone business units in Australia and UK delivering expected bottom line returns. • Promoted to Enterprise PMO within 18 months.
Advisor to government, medium/large B2C and B2B clients in USA, Europe and UK on project and programme management, customer experience measurement and management, and coached executives. Directed a group of collaborators and led 20+ senior consultants in service delivery, operations, governance, relationships, innovation, and customer solutions. Key achievements include: • Engaged as Consultant Director on key client opportunities, accelerated delivery and performance and grew annual revenues by double-digits through global recession. • Executed programme direction on large-scale infrastructure, business transformation and change strategies for major clients realising achievement bonuses and referrals. • Designed and delivered Programme and Project Management electives for UK Government Project Management Leadership programme with Cranfield Business School developing 60 Senior Responsible Officers in UK Cabinet Office. • Designed and led development of innovative mobile customer experience tracking systems for major retailers in USA and UK which tracked customer loyalty and drove real-term growth.