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Bob Ward-Jackson

York,North Yorkshire
Bob Ward-Jackson

Summary

I am a self-motivated and approachable individual with broad experience gained in several business change roles. I have strong analytical and delivery skills with a proven track record of delivering business change in often high-pressure projects.

I enjoy working within in a team environment and form good relationships at all levels but can work individually if required. Throughout my career I have successfully been involved in or delivered many projects for international and UK based clients including business transformations, digital change, third-party system integration, data migrations and many more.

Overview

22
years of professional experience

Work history

CPP Group plc

Relationship and Strategic Portfolio Manager
2021.01 - Current (5 education.years_Label & 5 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Hybrid role responsible for management of business change portfolio acting within different capacities in order to deliver business change
  • Overseeing major business transformation projects including delivery of new policy management systems for UK and Italian businesses and migration of data to archival systems
  • Manage multiple relationships around the group business, senior leadership teams, IT and business change
  • Manage creation and assessment of feasibilities and prioritisation of work
  • Oversee and directly manage projects
  • SME or product owner for IT and business change

CPP Group plc

IT Relationship Manager
2017.03 - 2021.01 (3 education.years_Label & 10 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Responsible for managing the relationships and delivery of business change for group business

Examples include:

  • Managed and completed analysis for Turkey data residency project where all Turkish data needed to be migrated from UK to new systems within very short timescales
  • API integration with major BPs allow partners (Bajaj finance in India) to support multiple services

CPP Group plc

Senior Business Analyst
2012.05 - 2017.02 (4 education.years_Label & 9 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Working within scrum environment to elicit business requirements for multiple projects
  • Oversee initiatives from inception to delivery ensuring quality and business objectives are met
  • Work with the digital teams to implement online services
  • Delivering business orientated workshops to collaboratively shape and clarify business processes

Examples include

  • Creation of India policy management system
  • Payment gateway integration with Barclaycard and ICICI bank

CPP Group plc

Relationship Manager
2005.02 - 2012.04 (7 education.years_Label & 2 education.months_Label)

Job overview

Managing relationship between change functions and international countries including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India Germany and Turkey.

CPP Group plc

UAT Manager
2002.01 - 2005.01 (3 education.years_Label)

Education

QA Higher Education
Birmingham

International Diploma in Business Analysis from business change
2021.11

QA Higher Education
Birmingham

Management of Portfolios MoP (R) Foundation and Practitioner

Skills

  • Business Analysis - Use a variety of techniques to elicit clear and concise business requirements that are meaningful to the business and technical teams
  • Can adapt to different working practices including agile and waterfall
  • Creative problem solving - ability to work with others to find ways around problems
  • Portfolio Management - Overseeing range of projects and change requests ensuring that priority, strategically aligned projects are delivered for the business
  • Management of projects - Formal experience of project management including appropriate governance
  • Relationship Management - Strong relationships across all levels Known for being empathetic and trusted by business to deliver critical changes
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • User acceptance testing - Create and Manage UAT strategies to ensure users are involved in validating requirements

Interests

Drawing Family activities with partner and 2 children

Timeline

QA Higher Education

International Diploma in Business Analysis from business change
2021.11

Relationship and Strategic Portfolio Manager

CPP Group plc
2021.01 - Current (5 education.years_Label & 5 education.months_Label)

IT Relationship Manager

CPP Group plc
2017.03 - 2021.01 (3 education.years_Label & 10 education.months_Label)

Senior Business Analyst

CPP Group plc
2012.05 - 2017.02 (4 education.years_Label & 9 education.months_Label)

Relationship Manager

CPP Group plc
2005.02 - 2012.04 (7 education.years_Label & 2 education.months_Label)

UAT Manager

CPP Group plc
2002.01 - 2005.01 (3 education.years_Label)

QA Higher Education

Management of Portfolios MoP (R) Foundation and Practitioner
Bob Ward-Jackson