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Project Manager specialising in Business Change and IT
Jane Warburton
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Wakefield, United Kingdom
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A Prince 2 and MSP qualified professional, with over 10 years Project Management experience.
I am a flexible and adaptable individual. Working collaboratively, with pace and a focus on quality, I endeavour to provide an excellent service assisting my clients to achieve their strategic objectives and realise business benefits through taking accountability to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
Able to provide the following services in relation to Project and Programme Management:
Project/Programme Initiation/Startup: delivering feasibility studies, business cases, managing procurement/tender process, initial scoping, problem analysis, detail and high-level planning, options appraisal, benefits identification, securing funding and buy in for projects/programmes.
Project Delivery/Implementation: managing business requirements, process re-engineering, embedding change, transformation, supplier management, change control, risk and issue control, managing development, testing, user acceptance testing, training, launch activities and transition to service operation.
Project Closure: knowledge transfer, transition of roles and responsibilities, closure report, benefits review and assessment, lessons learned, budget reconciliation, continuous improvement plan.
Programme Management Office: creating templates, designing and embedding processes and methodology, resource management, capacity planning, prioritisation planning, reporting, assurance, health checks, knowledge management, recruitment, mentoring, guidance and advice.
Strategy: ensuring that project/programme goals and benefits align with wider business strategies, able to manage change in project direction in order to maintain alignment with strategy.
Leadership: takes accountability, effective communicator, engages and collaborates effectively with the team, maintains strong focus and commitment on the project objectives
I am a flexible and adaptable individual. Working collaboratively, with pace and a focus on quality, I endeavour to provide an excellent service assisting my clients to achieve their strategic objectives and realise business benefits through taking accountability to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
Able to provide the following services in relation to Project and Programme Management:
Project/Programme Initiation/Startup: delivering feasibility studies, business cases, managing procurement/tender process, initial scoping, problem analysis, detail and high-level planning, options appraisal, benefits identification, securing funding and buy in for projects/programmes.
Project Delivery/Implementation: managing business requirements, process re-engineering, embedding change, transformation, supplier management, change control, risk and issue control, managing development, testing, user acceptance testing, training, launch activities and transition to service operation.
Project Closure: knowledge transfer, transition of roles and responsibilities, closure report, benefits review and assessment, lessons learned, budget reconciliation, continuous improvement plan.
Programme Management Office: creating templates, designing and embedding processes and methodology, resource management, capacity planning, prioritisation planning, reporting, assurance, health checks, knowledge management, recruitment, mentoring, guidance and advice.
Strategy: ensuring that project/programme goals and benefits align with wider business strategies, able to manage change in project direction in order to maintain alignment with strategy.
Leadership: takes accountability, effective communicator, engages and collaborates effectively with the team, maintains strong focus and commitment on the project objectives
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United Kingdom
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English
Fluently
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2019 - 2019
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Senior Project Manager
Hermes Parcelnet.
Responsible for the Back-Office Programme, projects focused on tactical improvements for Finance, HR, Operations and IT functions. Including the roll out of a time and attendance system and processes across remaining depots, transition of roles and responsibilities into Service Operations for a recently implemented Financial budgeting and forecasting system, integrations to connect five HR systems and start-up activities for a document management system.
• Produced the Business Case and gained approval for the implementation of a Document Management System.
• Achieved successful Go Live of Time and Attendance System and Business Processes at 5 National Depots.
• Implemented Training and Transition activities into IT Business Objects and Service Operations for the Budgeting and Reporting System.
• Planning, Scoping and Commercial activities to mobilise third-party providers to enable integrations between various HR systems.
• Managed the Programme Budget of £500K, including actual spend, forecasting, change control, purchase orders and invoice control.
• Chaired monthly programme steering board including raising visibility of issues and gaining key decisions from Director and CFO.
• Prepared individual project plans and overarching programme plan including milestones and benefits realisation timelines.
Benefits/Outcomes - improvements in the accuracy of staff pay, automated business processes enabling the reduction in HR administrative resources, transition of developer and IT service operations skills in house, cost avoidance of external developer costs at £1K per day.
• Produced the Business Case and gained approval for the implementation of a Document Management System.
• Achieved successful Go Live of Time and Attendance System and Business Processes at 5 National Depots.
• Implemented Training and Transition activities into IT Business Objects and Service Operations for the Budgeting and Reporting System.
• Planning, Scoping and Commercial activities to mobilise third-party providers to enable integrations between various HR systems.
• Managed the Programme Budget of £500K, including actual spend, forecasting, change control, purchase orders and invoice control.
• Chaired monthly programme steering board including raising visibility of issues and gaining key decisions from Director and CFO.
• Prepared individual project plans and overarching programme plan including milestones and benefits realisation timelines.
Benefits/Outcomes - improvements in the accuracy of staff pay, automated business processes enabling the reduction in HR administrative resources, transition of developer and IT service operations skills in house, cost avoidance of external developer costs at £1K per day.
It, Processes, UP, Go, Manager, Office, CFO, Implementation, Developer, Project Manager, Business Case, Service, Finance, Management, Forecasting, Training, Budget, Operations
2017 - 2019
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Senior Project Manager
Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation.
Responsible for leading and managing several high-profile projects that formed part of YPO's largest ever programme of IT and business transformation change, with a budget of £1.2M. Implemented a new Finance ERP System, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, across multiple departments including; Finance, Customer Services, Sales, Marketing, Stock Control, Procurement, Quality, and IT, impacting approx. 600 staff at two sites.
The system manages the transactional functions of the organisation, including the processing of over 4,000 sales orders per day, management of over 36,000 products, application and management of customer pricing and campaigns, supplier purchase orders, customer invoicing and payments in, supplier payments out and management accountancy including accountancy of YPO's Limited Company.
Working closely with relevant stakeholders including Directors, Strategic Leadership Team, IT Manager, Technical Leads, Developers, Test Lead, Testers, Business Analysts / Product Owner, Data Analysts, Learning and Development Resource, Business Representatives, End Users, Third Party System Provider Resources Projects and Programme Manager, I planned, controlled and delivered several stages of the programme including the following:
• Analysis - completed investigation workshops to analyse and ratify the full set of business requirements, resulting in the production and approval of a final solution design document. Completed analysis and scoping to establish the scope of data cleansing, data restructure and data migration options including business ownership required across key data sets.
• Design - translation of approx. 4,000 business requirements into 40+ technical design specifications, including managing change requests and implications of the design upon the connecting interfaces.
• Development and Testing - using agile development sprints, including requirements back log to complete all development work, organized and ran demo sessions to gain sign off to the development. Managed all layers of the testing including designing implementing a new approach to the testing, management of all defects and bugs, management of the user acceptance testing including change requests.
• Business Processes Enterprise Model - process re-engineering across all business functions, covering 40+ business processes, understanding of the as-is processes, documentation and sign off of the to-be processes, encouraged people to think in a different way and identified business process owners.
• Systems Integration - including identification of the scope of the integration test scenarios and resource planning for fourteen systems in the architecture including the Warehouse Management system, CRM system, YPO Website, Invoice Matching System, Vendor Portal and the Catalogue Production system.
As a Programme and Portfolio Board representative, I created the Highlight Reports and represented the projects to the Strategic Leadership Team and Directors for decision making, I actively managed the RAID including proactively resolving early Risks, Change Control management, Budget forecasting and actuals reporting, working in tandem with the other Project Managers and Leads to identify, track and deliver interdependencies in order to ensure the Programme milestones were achieved.
Benefits/Outcomes - provided the foundation for the business to increase sales, decrease in total operating costs, enhance employee experience and improve customer experience.
The system manages the transactional functions of the organisation, including the processing of over 4,000 sales orders per day, management of over 36,000 products, application and management of customer pricing and campaigns, supplier purchase orders, customer invoicing and payments in, supplier payments out and management accountancy including accountancy of YPO's Limited Company.
Working closely with relevant stakeholders including Directors, Strategic Leadership Team, IT Manager, Technical Leads, Developers, Test Lead, Testers, Business Analysts / Product Owner, Data Analysts, Learning and Development Resource, Business Representatives, End Users, Third Party System Provider Resources Projects and Programme Manager, I planned, controlled and delivered several stages of the programme including the following:
• Analysis - completed investigation workshops to analyse and ratify the full set of business requirements, resulting in the production and approval of a final solution design document. Completed analysis and scoping to establish the scope of data cleansing, data restructure and data migration options including business ownership required across key data sets.
• Design - translation of approx. 4,000 business requirements into 40+ technical design specifications, including managing change requests and implications of the design upon the connecting interfaces.
• Development and Testing - using agile development sprints, including requirements back log to complete all development work, organized and ran demo sessions to gain sign off to the development. Managed all layers of the testing including designing implementing a new approach to the testing, management of all defects and bugs, management of the user acceptance testing including change requests.
• Business Processes Enterprise Model - process re-engineering across all business functions, covering 40+ business processes, understanding of the as-is processes, documentation and sign off of the to-be processes, encouraged people to think in a different way and identified business process owners.
• Systems Integration - including identification of the scope of the integration test scenarios and resource planning for fourteen systems in the architecture including the Warehouse Management system, CRM system, YPO Website, Invoice Matching System, Vendor Portal and the Catalogue Production system.
As a Programme and Portfolio Board representative, I created the Highlight Reports and represented the projects to the Strategic Leadership Team and Directors for decision making, I actively managed the RAID including proactively resolving early Risks, Change Control management, Budget forecasting and actuals reporting, working in tandem with the other Project Managers and Leads to identify, track and deliver interdependencies in order to ensure the Programme milestones were achieved.
Benefits/Outcomes - provided the foundation for the business to increase sales, decrease in total operating costs, enhance employee experience and improve customer experience.
Development, Dynamics NAV, Website, Architecture, Engineering, Workshops, It, Transformation, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Testing, Sales, Organization, Production, Enterprise, Demo, Processing, Portal, Manager, Processes, Agile, Design, Project Manager, CRM, Budget, Forecasting, Customer experience, ERP, Agile development, Marketing, Procurement, Product owner, Business transformation, Leadership, Management, Finance, Integration, Test
2011 - 2013
job
Project Manager
Trustmarque Solutions.
Project Manager working at a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, the UK's leading provider of end-to-end IT services. Fast paced, dynamic and commercially driven, the projects I managed moved through the process quickly.
• Delivery of 15- 20 IT projects at any one time for National clients with average values between £20K - £100K.
• Working with external clients and suppliers to prepare clear statement of works, clarify scope, costs and timescales.
• Management of dynamic project teams, often including mix of third-party suppliers, partners and internal delivery team.
• Regular review and improvements to delivery partners/suppliers' contractual terms and conditions.
Benefits/Outcomes - created a standard project approach to the delivery of Commercial Benchmarking projects that could be tailored based on size and complexity. Contributed directly towards securing additional project spend of £40K from public sector client.
• Delivery of 15- 20 IT projects at any one time for National clients with average values between £20K - £100K.
• Working with external clients and suppliers to prepare clear statement of works, clarify scope, costs and timescales.
• Management of dynamic project teams, often including mix of third-party suppliers, partners and internal delivery team.
• Regular review and improvements to delivery partners/suppliers' contractual terms and conditions.
Benefits/Outcomes - created a standard project approach to the delivery of Commercial Benchmarking projects that could be tailored based on size and complexity. Contributed directly towards securing additional project spend of £40K from public sector client.
Project Manager, Management, It, Public sector, Manager
2010 - 2011
job
Project Coordinator
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Project Coordinator within the Property and Procurement Team. Planned and coordinated all elements of the category B fit out of a newly acquired office building, £700K budget, with 180 staff relocated. Completed pre contract project to fit out the remaining five floors, totalling an overall project budget of £4.2M, and a total of 900 staff relocating to the building.
• Coordination of the design, light construction works, purchase and installation of ICT, furniture procurement and relocation of staff.
• Worked closely with the Senior Leadership Team to deliver the project in line with agreed strategic objectives, brief, timescale and budget.
• Presentation of project progress report, issues, costs at the CEO's Project Board.
• Created key Prince2 project documentation including project plans, project initiation document, risk register, and lessons learned report
• Management of key construction related documentation including Employers Requirements, Method Statements, Architects Instructions, Building Regulations approval, CDM and Health and Safety documentation.
• Collaborated closely with Town Hall Refurbishment and Experience Barnsley Project Managers to control dependencies between projects.
Benefits/Outcomes - enabled the forecasted administration savings of £100K per annum, enabled essential building improvements to be made to the Town Hall and the construction of the Experience Barnsley Museum to be completed.
• Coordination of the design, light construction works, purchase and installation of ICT, furniture procurement and relocation of staff.
• Worked closely with the Senior Leadership Team to deliver the project in line with agreed strategic objectives, brief, timescale and budget.
• Presentation of project progress report, issues, costs at the CEO's Project Board.
• Created key Prince2 project documentation including project plans, project initiation document, risk register, and lessons learned report
• Management of key construction related documentation including Employers Requirements, Method Statements, Architects Instructions, Building Regulations approval, CDM and Health and Safety documentation.
• Collaborated closely with Town Hall Refurbishment and Experience Barnsley Project Managers to control dependencies between projects.
Benefits/Outcomes - enabled the forecasted administration savings of £100K per annum, enabled essential building improvements to be made to the Town Hall and the construction of the Experience Barnsley Museum to be completed.
Design, Administration, Prince2, Budget, Procurement, Leadership, Management, Ceo, Safety, Health, Coordinator, Office
2007 - 2010
job
Junior Project Manager/Project Support Officer
NHS Connecting for Health.
Project Support Officer for the Technical Deployment Team, promoted to Junior Project Manager in the Summary Care Record Programme Team, working on the National Programme for IT.
• Managed system suppliers through their pilot deployments into their NHS sites, including the Electronic Prescriptions Service, GP2GP, Summary Care Record and Choose and Book systems.
• Reported weekly highlight reports to the Clinical Safety Group and the Technical Project Board.
• Followed a structured, regulated project approach methodology to ensure technical and clinical safety gateways.
• Chaired regular project progress meetings, challenging progress and identifying/monitoring issues and defects.
• Planned and coordinated GP System Supplier and NHS Engagement workshop events in Leeds and London.
• Part of a large PMO, working across multiple national programmes.
• Managed system suppliers through their pilot deployments into their NHS sites, including the Electronic Prescriptions Service, GP2GP, Summary Care Record and Choose and Book systems.
• Reported weekly highlight reports to the Clinical Safety Group and the Technical Project Board.
• Followed a structured, regulated project approach methodology to ensure technical and clinical safety gateways.
• Chaired regular project progress meetings, challenging progress and identifying/monitoring issues and defects.
• Planned and coordinated GP System Supplier and NHS Engagement workshop events in Leeds and London.
• Part of a large PMO, working across multiple national programmes.
Project Manager, Deployment, PMO, Service, It, Support, Monitoring, Safety, Workshop, Manager
My education
2016
BCS
MSP Foundation and Practitioner, Managing Successfull Programmes
MSP Foundation and Practitioner, Managing Successfull Programmes
2014
BCS
Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner, Project Management
Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner, Project Management
2000
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2004
Sheffield Hallam University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Grade 2:1, Tourism Management
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Grade 2:1, Tourism Management
1998
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2000
Barnsley College
GNVQ Advanced - Distinction, Travel and Tourism
GNVQ Advanced - Distinction, Travel and Tourism
1992
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1998
Holgate High School
GCSE's - 9 Grades A-C, GCSE's
GCSE's - 9 Grades A-C, GCSE's
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