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Rob

Head of Strategy

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Yorkshire

Roles Available

Head of Strategy

Expertise

Leadership
Operations Strategy
People & Culture

Introduction

I am an award-winning and versatile leader, known for driving strategic, transformational change across complex organisations. With a proven track record in leading large teams across both Change and Operations, I consistently deliver initiatives that solve diverse, organisation-wide challenges. I am a highly effective people leader and communicator whose ability to build strong stakeholder relationships enables me to collaborate with businesses and suppliers to achieve outstanding outcomes – whether the desired outcome is a new technology capability, process optimisation, or cultural change.

Key Achievements

* Accountable for the design and realisation of Business Function strategy, delivering benefits of £92m from 2021-25. Achieved significant benefits across Customer, Colleague, Climate and Compliance – all while partnering with Technology to drive the organisation’s Digital First agenda. * Led implementation of new, Award-winning digital cheque scanning capability into 850 bank Branches and Cash & Coin Centres of a major high street bank, improving service and saving £12m a year. * Co-led of a FTSE 100’s Paperless Programme, pioneering key initiatives such as a new eForms capability to digitise customer interactions and the optimisation of the organisation’s logistics model. Combined, these reduced Customer Journey time from 9 days to 1 and realised £11.5m annual savings.

Qualifications

* Managing Successful Programmes Qualification * Lean Sigma Black Belt * APMP Project Management Qualification * Agile Fundamentals * Business Architecture TOGAF Certification (The Open Group) * B.Ed. (Hons) Secondary Education * OpX Senior Operational Leadership Programme with Warwick Business School * AI Fundamentals & AI Business Fundamentals Certification (Data Camp)