Helen Rogers

I have developed my career within a technology driven software and digital marketplace. A highly motivated and enthusiastic professional who continues to be keen to learn, develop and build on my achievements to date.

Being a commercial product leader who is an effective and articulate leader, I strive to work in a business with ambition to match my own personal drive and passion for success. My senior leadership roles have allowed me to develop my skills with a strong focus for organisational, commercial, and operational control of running a business.

My roles as a key decision maker have included budgetary management, product, sales, and company-wide strategies. Having responsibility for several product development teams comprising of over 70+ staff has allowed me to lead and empower heads of service, managers through strategic direction and mentoring. I have introduced strict Product Management, Project Management, commercial, customer support & Release Management procedures and policies into businesses and have evolved these to adapt to the changing environment.

I am an excellent communicator, on both a technical & non-technical level, with strong influential and interpersonal skills. I have first-rate Customer Relations skills, with all roles being client facing with a strong focus on personalised Customer Service. I have strong programme management for large-scale multi-million-pound projects, which have included delivering sales proposals, negotiating, setting project milestones & ensuring pre-defined budgetary, scope & time targets were met.

My experience has helped me to build a strong interest in leading technology-led product strategy and product management as well as providing efficient software development, service delivery and customer service within software marketplaces.

My passion and interest in the importance of developing and deploying systems to support human functions, channel shift/digital inclusion and streamlining business processes through new and emerging technologies influences my continued career choice.

In 2021, I was shortlisted as a finalist at the global Women in Tech awards for my achievements to date in innovation. I am working to senior strategic managing director roles in dynamic technology-based software businesses, focused on strong revenue growth and profit as well as serving public and private sector services to provide a better quality of life to those most vulnerable.

• Led & accountable for successful multi-million-pound Civica Asset Management programme into Social Housing
• Product planning and launch of £7 million programme to re-architecture Congenica's global SaaS platform
• Responsible for business case definition and execution of £6 million business case for architectural & user interface redesign & cloud programme across Capita's housing suite & migration strategy for recurring revenue protection
• Product initiation and launch of ‘Internet of Things' Smart Homes pilot into housing provider
• Successful introduction of agile scrum framework across multiple scrum teams including release management policy & business improvement internally at Serengeti, Capita, Congenica and Civica
• Programme Management of Serengeti EDM implementation at University of Cambridge & Walsall Housing Group, Project Board member, ROI business case study for benefits realisation
• Product Management of £1m+ agile development programme for Forestry Commission Online Public Register, CRM and Case Management solution, on time/to budget.

PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification.

Raising the Bar Management Courses (undertaken internally at Civica UK Ltd) & various leadership courses.

Media Training, The Media Coach (undertaken at Capita plc.)

My main interest is sport. I am a keen runner, cyclist and tennis player. I am a treasurer of local tennis club where I play in league mixed doubles teams. I also enjoy socialising with friends from home, university and work life and enjoy world-wide travel with my husband.

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