Greater Reading Area
A self-motivated, dynamic and delivery driven Projects Director with exceptional knowledge and success within the Oil, Retail and FM sectors. Recognised as a strong, natural and inspiring leader, able to drive and motivate teams to deliver results. Particularly skilled at end-to-end project management, with a very broad portfolio of functional and P&L experience, gained over years of successful delivery and management of strategic and business-critical programmes. An excellent communicator at all levels, who thrives under pressure and has the ability to build, leverage and maintain strong working relationships, whilst utilising these key skills to achieve exceptional, creative and cost-effective results. Personal Attributes • A very experienced and professional Projects Director with outstanding strategic vision. • A proven and dynamic team leader who isn’t afraid of hands-on involvement and responsibility. • Talented in strategy development and financial plans, able to add value with creative vision. • Utilises initiative and drive to instil passion and intelligence into every task undertaken. • Positive thinker with the capability to motivate and mentor teams at all levels. Please feel free to contact me on 07532 175145 or [email protected]
Ascona Group is one of Wales' fastest growing companies. A leading independent petrol retailer ranked 7th in the UK top indies. We own, operate and directly manage service stations across England and Wales. We have extensive and ambitious plans to expand our portfolio over the next 5 years. Responsible for all Capex and Opex budgets across the entire portfolio estate. Responsible for managing all investment projects and developments, ensuring designed, planned and completed safely and within time and budget. Promote, maintain and champion Ascona group HSEQ culture and ethics on all portfolio projects. Represent Ascona Group on all construction works within the portfolio.
Managed a Global team of 5 Snr PM’s and 15 PM’s, embedded within the US and UK GlaxoSmithKline R&D and commercial business. Providing capital and revenue project delivery, accountable for yearly BU spend of over £10m, delivering over 500 projects. • Responsible for developing a new pipeline/forecasting model within the UK, which produced £12m of new projects in Q1. 400% increase YOY. • Developed and implemented new “Best practice” project processes; approved by GSK in Q1, leading to a harmonisation roll out strategy for all other locations. • Generated £750k of new critical projects within R&D. Recruited 4nr additional PMs with £100k uplift in margin. • Increased overall head count within the portfolio by 3PM’s, by developing and implementing a GSK projects resource model. Resulting in £150k yearly margin uplift. • Managed the roll out of a new dynamics finance system for projects. Developed and implemented new projects governance processes. Key strategic Q1 deliverable in the global alliance plan. • Globally delivered over 200 projects in Q1/2 with no reportable H&S incidents.
One of the UK’s leading providers of hard services led facilities maintenance, support services in the built environment. Managing thousands of Service, Maintenance, and Engineering Projects/Contracts. • Managed a team of 8 PM’s in the very high profile British Airways contract, solely responsible for all design, project delivery, client liaison and relationship management, QHSE, sales/service delivery and project P&L. • Headed a team, managing multiple contractors on a diverse site; managing multiple levels of Civils, Infrastructure and construction projects, with no reported accidents or incidents. • Developed, controlled, and costed all new project pipeline, ensuring all projects were designed, managed, and completed within current legislation. • Developed and Mentored a team of professional PM’s, Recruited new PM’s to optimise performance and to ensure the highest level of quality and professional delivery. • Developed and implemented new project team processes, ensuring continuous improvement, by adopting new systems of work, training programmes and appraisals.
Independent convenience-forecourt retailer with over 200 stores and an annual turn-over of £1BN. Bought Total UK in 2011. Led a large team of professional staff, overseeing all annual capital projects, revenue, operational budgets, investments and environmental programmes. • Designed, developed and managed a project team to carry out the first major station refurbishment programme. Completed under budget, generating over millions in additional revenue. • Established and co-ordinated a strategic business review team tasked to identify opportunities with poor performing outlets. Innovated and facilitated a sell-and-redevelop concept to deliver mulit millions of additional revenues. • Restructured the engineering/projects department of Total UK (which had recently been acquired by Rontec) and had a vast, untenable mulit million budget. Renegotiated all contracts, redefined the new equipment specifications and re-motivated staff, reducing running costs by millions.