Career Details
Headlines
- Director of Change Management
- Responsible for Business Development through acquisitions and organic projects
- Manages the Strategic & Business Planning processes
- Includes financial business modelling and investment opportunity appraisal
- Oversees project management and leads strategic initiatives
- Line management responsibility for IS, Call Centre Support and Business Intelligence (BI)
- Bottom line focused:
- Prioritises needs by reference to business strategy
- Identifies revenue generating and cost saving opportunities
- Delivers Projects & IS Solutions focused upon return on investment (ROI)
- Delivers IT Infrastructure based on total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Expertise:
- Personal project management experience of Change Management, Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), end to end Supply Chain operations & profitability analysis, Business Planning, Business Processes, Space/Merchandise Planning and e-Commerce & e-Collaboration
- Highly analytic with strong organisational, and relationship building skills
- Experience includes:
- A&M commercial analysis, operational planning, and operational & IS integration
- Developing and running business planning framework
- Business process improvement
- IS department organisational restructuring, with focus upon cost minimisation and processes to align IS strategy and operations with business strategy and operations
- Call Centre Telephony, ERP, CRM, Finance, Logistics, Data Warehousing and Workflow systems selection, implementation, operation and exploitation
- Management of outsourcing relationships and internal resources
- Background:
- Industry experience is retail/supply chain, although skills and disciplines are generic
- Also business consulting experience within the software industry
- Operated as an internal consultant, external consultant and line manager
- Employers:
- PC World Business (Dixons Group plc)
- Armature – software solutions to the retail industry: Business Consultant
- Iceland Group plc: Head of Decision Support
- The Boots Company plc: commercial finance roles on systems delivery projects
Employment History
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PC World Business (Dixons Group plc) Feb 2001 – present
IT re-seller: multi-channel b2b sister operation to PC World retail
Director of Change Management
Armature Ltd: Integrated Retail Solutions Mar 1998 - Feb 2001
Software company specialising in core client server applications for the retail industry.
Various Business Consultant & Pre-Sales Roles – Professional Services
Iceland Frozen Foods plc Apr 1995 – Feb 1998
UK’s sixth largest grocery retailer and first grocer to offer nation-wide home delivery.
Head of Decision Support – Trading Strategy Team
Boots The Chemists / Boots Retails Division Nov 1989 – Mar 1995
The retail operations of The Boots Company plc: blue chip retail/pharmaceuticals holding company
Various Decision Support Roles - Commercial Finance
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