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Primary specialism
Project & Programme Management
Location / working location
Reading
Current availability
Available now
Confirmed 21 Aug 2026
Profile status
Active contractor profile
Professional profile
Senior Programme Leader with 25+ years of experience in leading and delivering transformation programmes. Proven ability to build scalable global teams, driving transformations, establishing strong governance & financial control and enabling senior stakeholder alignments to deliver measurable business outcomes. • Delivered complex Business and IT transformation programmes in Logistics, Supply Chain, and Telecommunications domains. Key Organisations: Maersk, Vodafone, DHL, Exel Logistics, Wilhelmsen. • Delivered enterprise Fit4Growth transformation, achieving multi-year cost optimisation (Y1 $84m & Y2 $78m) • Led Insourcing Programme with vision to build a Self-reliant Portfolio with key capabilities built with-in. Scaled global capability from 100 to 900+ resources through strategic insourcing. • Led end-to-end migration of servers from On-Prem Infrastructure to GCP, delivering on a 6-month timeline, enabling a seamless transition and protecting key financial dependencies • Leading S/4HANA Transport Management upgrade (from 2021 to 2025) with RHEL 9.6 & HANA SPS 8 across parallel delivery tracks with minimal business impact
Core skills
Programme Leadership
Business Transformation
IT Transformation
Stakeholder Management
Financial Management
Portfolio Governance
Risk Management
Change Management
Demand Management
Global Delivery
Commercial & Pre-Sales Leadership
Agile (SAFe®)
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: Programme Director · Senior Programme Manager · Programme Manager · Senior Project Manager · Project Manager · Senior Delivery Manager · Delivery Manager
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid · On-site
Will workLondon, Reading, Maidenhead, Slough, South East, Remote
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35 · Inside IR35
IT experience25 years
Relevant work experience
Programme Manager (Maersk, Vodfone, Wipro): • Led large-scale enterprise programmes aligned to strategic transformation priorities across digital product and platform transformation • Leading Transport Management upgrade (S/4 2021 to S/4 2025, RHEL 9.6, HANA DB SPS 8), coordinating multiple functional workstreams and business stakeholders to ensure seamless execution with minimal business disruption • Led Fit4Growth initiative, identifying value levers and delivering multi-year savings targets (Y1 $84M & Y2 $78m) by benchmarking with leading industry competitors. • Led Insourcing Programme to enable the Portfolio to become Self-reliant with key capabilities built with-in to support Global Integrator Vision and replacing high-cost supplier capabilities. Built the team from ~100+ to ~900+ across global locations and achieved cost savings with no impact to delivery commitments. • Led the Data Centre migration of from On-Prem Infrastructure to GCP, delivering within a 6-month timeline, ensuring seamless transition and meeting all the financial outcomes. • Successfully lead the programme to deliver customer-controlled network traffic & bandwidth management capabilities to enhance availability, performance and experience. • Delivered the programme transformation roadmap for Telecom Expense Management (TEM) Product Suite- enabling significant revenue growth (~€114m) by customer onboarding • Initiated, lead and delivered a strategic programme ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) to corporate customers. • Led concurrent global programmes across development, transformation, and support services in an outsourcing delivery model • Delivered an IT transformation programme for integrating applications across 60 countries post-merger of two large logistics organisations
Experience & credentials
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CertificationsManaging Successful Programme (MSP) · Prince 2
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