11/28/2024 updated
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Global Transformation Programme Director
Castlegregory, Ireland
Only remote
MSC Engineering, MBA, MA in applied coachingBusiness PlanningStrategic ManagementBusiness TechnologiesBusiness TransformationChange ManagementDigitizationEmployee EngagementEmployee MotivationManagement DevelopmentOracle ApplicationsProgram ManagementSAP PSTechnological ChangeOperating ModelsHR Transformation
Digital Transformation
Extensive experience in leading IT-enabled digital change and business transformation programmes to enhance productivity and performance.
Programme Management
Proven track record in directing global transformation programmes, including HR, technology, and organizational change initiatives.
Strategic Planning
Expert in strategic planning, roadmap alignment, and programme recovery to drive business objectives and employee engagement.
Change Management
Proficient in leading complex change management processes, including cultural transformation and employee experience improvements.
HR Transformation
Specialized in HR operating model implementation, Oracle systems, and global HR transformation programmes.
Technology Implementation
Skilled in implementing various HR and business technologies, including AI, ServiceNow, Workday, Oracel, Ceridian and SAP systems.
Coaching and Leadership Development
Certified coach with expertise in leadership assessment, emotional intelligence, and executive coaching methodologies.
Extensive experience in leading IT-enabled digital change and business transformation programmes to enhance productivity and performance.
Programme Management
Proven track record in directing global transformation programmes, including HR, technology, and organizational change initiatives.
Strategic Planning
Expert in strategic planning, roadmap alignment, and programme recovery to drive business objectives and employee engagement.
Change Management
Proficient in leading complex change management processes, including cultural transformation and employee experience improvements.
HR Transformation
Specialized in HR operating model implementation, Oracle systems, and global HR transformation programmes.
Technology Implementation
Skilled in implementing various HR and business technologies, including AI, ServiceNow, Workday, Oracel, Ceridian and SAP systems.
Coaching and Leadership Development
Certified coach with expertise in leadership assessment, emotional intelligence, and executive coaching methodologies.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2010
Languages
GermanNative speakerEnglishNative speakerSpanishGood
Project history
Working as an interim, oversaw multiple high-stakes global HR transformation initiatives integrating advanced technologies and operational models, ensuring strategic alignment and robust governance. Managed end-to-end programme lifecycle, from gap analysis and process optimisation to successful implementation and stakeholder management, across diverse international settings in hybrid and remote environments. Leveraged coaching expertise to empower teams, foster collaboration, and build leadership capabilities, driving alignment and engagement at all levels. Excelled in bridging technology and business goals, achieving significant operational efficiencies and user adoption rates. Specialised in rescuing and redirecting failing projects through strategic oversight and robust change management methodologies and tailored coaching interventions.
Selected client programmes:
Selected client programmes:
- Legal & General: Streamlined a global Oracle Fusion HR transformation program, addressing critical gaps, optimizing governance, and ensuring delivery before transitioning to the internal portfolio director.
- Euromoney plc: Recovered a failing global HRIS (Ceridian Dayforce) implementation, ensuring UK rollout success with 72% adoption in the first week.
- Novartis: As a Strategic Change Advisor, guided the change team on global HR operating model transformation, focusing on behavioral change, local enablement, and embedding a new operating model for enhanced employee experience.
- Equinix: Guided a critical phase of HR operational transformation, integrating AI and digital tools e.g. Workday & ServiceNow that moved Q1 projects forward to Q4 2020, optimizing budget impacts.
- Genesee & Wyoming UK: Turned around a failing digital people program, implementing Workday and RailSmart while transitioning HR to a digital operating model.
- Three UK: Delivered Phase 1 of a technology and operations transformation, balancing agile and waterfall approaches to achieve outsourcing and target operating model goals.
- Cushman & Wakefield: Led turnaround efforts for the failing outsourcing program, enhancing project portfolio management with the successful adoption of Innotas software across EMEA.
- Cushman & Wakefield: Led EMEA integration portfolio, delivering $45M in synergies through governance, KPIs, and targeted stakeholder management. Took over change delivery for the Workday programme to ensure successful implementation and adoption to agreed timelines.
- Novozymes: Established a governance and data excellence framework that not only enhanced global standards and efficiency but also expanded to include Business Intelligence & Reporting functions.
- Worldvision: Developed a target operating model and implementation roadmap for the Grants Business Area, aligning capabilities, competencies, and people change with strategic goals.
- Telemetry: Developed cultural and operational agility through Target Operating Model adjustments, HR function setup, and employee experience improvements.
- Financial Services Authority (FSA, now FCA): Rescued a change portfolio to deliver a new Target Operating Model. Set up governance, enabling a seamless handover to internal management.
Led and influenced transformation projects, specialising in organisational change, ERP enabled transformation, operating efficiencies and data governance across various high-profile clients. Expertise in designing and implementing target operating models, steering complex IT and HR transformations, delivering IT and supper selection processes, and designing effective data governance frameworks. Excelled in driving change initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, and fostering strong stakeholder engagement to secure buy-in and facilitate smooth transitions. Developed and led global PA Consulting Group services in Employee Engagement, Corporate Performance Management, and Business Intelligence/Data Management. Acted as a mentor, internal coach, and leader for diversity initiatives within her global practise, significantly contributing to the firm's volunteering and community engagement efforts.
Selected Client Programmes:
Selected Client Programmes:
- Yara: Led the feasibility study and business case development for a global cloud-based HR system across 52 countries, achieving a unified HR data view and significant process efficiencies through focused stakeholder engagement.
- MAN Diesel: Designed and implemented a cost-effective global master data governance model, fostering cross-cultural collaboration, building leadership skills within the team and addressing critical issues and gaps.
- Clifford Chance: Delivered a global HR transformation programme turnaround incl. operating model, and HR, payroll, pensions, and benefits systems overhaul, achieving significant cost reductions and more effective HR and finance processes.
- BP: Crafted and executed a transition strategy for one of BP’s largest IT portfolios, seamlessly merging staff and systems into a newly designed IT target operating model.
- Healthcare Commission (now CQC): Developed a comprehensive KPI framework and implemented a prototype system for continuous performance measurement within a four-week project.
- Benfield Re-insurance: Led three HR transformation projects, streamlining global compensation and benefits roles, processes and systems, ensuring FSA (now FCA) compliance, and creating an employer brand strategy to enhance employee experience.
- Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI, now CQC): Programme managed systems integration (SAP HR/Payroll), process alignment, and data migration across finance and HR, meeting a critical 9-month legal deadline for organisational merger, restructuring and organizational separation.
- York International: Led the strategic shift from a traditional manufacturing model to a service-oriented model, coordinating closely with the CFO and key stakeholders to redefine the company's vision and operational strategies