Jon Babb

Jon is an extensively experienced programme director who operates as a self-starter and gets the job done. He is equally comfortable leading teams or consulting on significant technology enabled change programmes and has strong experience in Health, Local Government and Financial Services in addition to 12 years spent in the Private sector, both in the UK and internationally. Expert level experience in:

• financial and operational turnaround
• translating strategy into action
• accelerating and sustaining business benefits, especially in a technology enabled regulatory and Technology context.
• managing global suppliers
• building delivery teams
• accelerating technology and business changes using optimal approaches
• being accountable for multi-million budgets,
• owning CxO level relationships

He blends his major programme delivery experience with his strong technical, operational and commercial experience. He is qualified in Prince2 and Managing Successful Programmes, is highly experienced in developing tailored life cycle and agile delivery approaches. Jon demonstrates significant financial and commercial acumen, allowing him to comfortably negotiate contractual and commercial matters. Jon is equally comfortable Innovating, negotiating and delivering. He operates as content & context rich in as much as he believes it is vital to understand the environment (technical and otherwise) to really deliver value.

• Successful direction of the single largest data migration of insurance data in the world
• Turnaround, delivery and exit management of a £10m ERP portfolio
• The development of strategically aligned portfolios of Technologyly enabled programmes of change in the NHS, nationally and regionally, in highly diverse, complex and political environments
• The leadership of change and transformation teams in the NHS and wider Government sectors to ensure buy in, support and effective usage of emerging Technology solutions to accelerate benefits
• The design and implementation of Corporate Asset and Facilities Management technologies for leading FTSE 100 companies and the UK public sector
• The development and implementation of Supply and Demand Chain solutions for Fortune 250 and FTSE 100 companies across the EMEA region
• The leadership of Programme Management and Transformation practices for UK consulting organisations, working to transform public services in the UK
• His core skills are summarised below:
• Technology Change & Transformation Leadership
• Technology Supplier Management
• Contract & Commercial Negotiation
• Account Management & Development
• CxO Stakeholder Management
• Corporate Asset & ERP Solution Implementation
• Multi-National Supplier Management
• Complex Data Centre Migration
• End to End Cloud Migration
• Technology Start Up Acceleration
• International Team Management
• Complex Programme Delivery
• Financial & Operational Turnaround

• Jon has led delivery teams and delivered complex technology change that translate strategy into action:
• Delivery of a significant data centre migration for Financial Services, delivering a single 5 day move of Over 700 Items migrated in single event 3 Complete environments 25 Billion rows of data successfully transferred 375 NAS Volumes 125 Solaris servers 189 Win/RHEL servers Mainframe
• The delivery of a multi-million-pound programme to transition on premises services to Microsoft Azure, comprised of: Datacentre migration Email migration SharePoint migration
• The operational, financial and strategic turnaround of a £15m IT programme & subsequent Business Case authoring & establishment of a £30m Technology Transformation (strategic roadmap) programme, focussed on shared service provision, workflow automation, property rationalisation and comprised of: CRM & Technology Capabilities Win 10 migration & BYOD Collaboration & Partnership working (inc. Office 365). Migration to Cloud Intranet & Extranet replacement Internal & external self-service portal creation Regulatory Compliance (specifically GDPR remediation) Master Data Management & Enterprise Service Bus delivery
• The design and initiation of the programme to re-procure GP Systems across Scotland Assessing the existing supplier community Positioning greater integration with Community health systems. Set the strategy, formulated the programme team, structure, Governance and budget. Deliver a procurement vehicle that future-proofs Community & GP IT taking into consideration Legal, commercial & procurement constraints whilst adapting to evolving models of care and government policies