Tony Kavanagh

Delivering Tooling, Automation and AI solutions

Nantwich, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • CGI (Full-time · 3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Director Consulting Delivery
      Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    • Director Business Consulting - ServiceNow Practice
      Sep 2022 - Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      • Leading the CGI ServiceNow Advisory Practice in the UK, identifying new opportunities and defining key offerings • Overseeing all active ServiceNow advisory and implementation projects, ensuring client satisfaction and successful project delivery.

  • Atos (Full-time · 14 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Consultant
      Apr 2022 - Aug 2022 · 5 mos

    • Client Delivery Executive (Service Director) - Royal Mail Group Account
      May 2019 - Apr 2022 · 3 yrs

      Key Achievements in this role: Initiation and delivery of an Agile Programme to drive automation across all areas of the operation, improving service quality, service assurance and cost savings/avoidance. Responsibilities: - E2E ownership of delivery of all services to key R&S customer - Leadership of a team of 5 Service Managers, >60FTE offshore support staff, and a Projects team of c20FTE - Management of a c£25m P&L, with full accountability of Project Margin across the account - Delivery a Critical to Quality workshop with the customer to identify and drive key service improvements - Relaunching the account model to focus Service team on customer intimacy and knowledge, rather than internal Atos view of how service is delivered - Focus on agile approaches to managing service including improvements to Risk Management and CSI - Delivering cost savings and profit improvements - Defining automation strategy and execution of the plan

    • Global Tooling Transformation Programme Director
      Jan 2017 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Key Achievements in this role - Successful migration of c150 customers and >500k CI’s in first 18 months of the programme - Delivery of >€7m cost saving globally through phasing out of legacy Tooling Responsibilities: - Accountable for the migration and transformation of all Atos customers globally to the Atos Technology Framework (ATF) v2 /ServiceNow platform, budget of €4m pa - Leading the development of an industrialised Managed Service model within ServiceNow to improve quality and cost of delivery across Atos - Building global and regional teams to deliver the programme, including set up of a migration factory in Pune, India - Acting as Business Change Manager across global organisation to drive delivery of the programme and transformation of the Managed Services business - Accountable for the removal of local/legacy tools globally and alignment to strategic standards - Driving Automation initiatives (infrastructure and end-user requests) - Defining and executing an offshoring programme for over 100 roles across 7 GBUs

  • Service Management Consultant at iCore Ltd
    Feb 2007 - Nov 2007 · 10 mos

    Consulting engagements including Barclays, Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk

  • Career Break at Travelling
    Aug 2006 - Jan 2007 · 6 mos

    Career break

  • Independent Consultant at Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)
    May 2006 - Aug 2006 · 4 mos

    Independent Service Management Consultant