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Rebecca Corrigan

Summary

A strategic and dependable senior leader with a strong foundation in advisory and delivery, bringing a process- and product-centric mindset to cost optimisation and performance enhancement across diverse business domains. With a career spanning business transformation, digital design, and operational efficiency, has evolved into a seasoned delivery leader, capable of shaping scalable, high-impact outcomes through cross-functional collaboration.
Proven track record in leading and nurturing multi-disciplinary product, technical, and delivery teams, scaling squads to over 30 consultants. Approach is grounded in human-centred design, lean product thinking, and iterative delivery models, enabling continuous value delivery. Extensive experience in strategic digital and automation transformation has driven national and international programs with measurable benefits, including over £5 million in annual savings through customer journey redesign, service blueprinting, and intelligent automation.
Experience spans Financial Services, Local Government, Asset Management, and Commercial Real Estate, delivering user-focused solutions that align business objectives with end-user needs. Known for a visionary yet practical approach, challenging assumptions, championing user insight, and influencing product strategy and service design in complex, high-stakes environments.
Strong governance ethos ensures initiatives align with organisational vision and customer expectations. Skilled in clear, confident communication at all levels, including C-suite, acting as a vital connector between technical teams and strategic stakeholders.
Passionate people leader with expertise in coaching, mentoring, and capability building across disciplines. Leadership is defined by continuous improvement and culture building, creating empowered teams that deliver sustainable, high-impact results.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Squad Lead/Process/Delivery/Product Lead

AND Digital
2024.02 - 2026.03
  • Leading a cross functional squad to deliver end to end product initiatives, aligning engineering, design, and business stakeholders to achieve high-quality, timely outcomes.
  • Driving continuous improvement by optimising agile processes, addressing inefficiencies, and embedding best practices to enhance productivity and delivery effectiveness
  • Engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels, managing expectations, communicating progress, and ensuring alignment between squad outputs and organisational goals
  • Helped manage change initiatives related to digital transformation and process improvement.
  • Support of team members via regular coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback to support individual development, wellbeing, and career progression

Digital Process Excellence & Automation Lead

PwC UK
2022.05 - 2023.11
  • Leadership of 34 Digital Process Excellence & Intelligent Automation consultants, providing direction on day-to-day work priorities across automation & lean continuous improvements team
  • Collaboration and supporting of other internal practices including providing expert knowledge of products and automation solutions to clients and consultative technological support
  • Led & delivered lean coaching & developed continuous improvement capabilities across PwC UK and PwC Egypt with ten programmes completed successfully.
  • Designed and delivered Citizen led coaching for clients as part of handover to BAU, using ‘See one, Do one & Teach one'
  • Leading a multitude of digital and automation-led transformations across diverse client industries, leveraging both high-performing proprietary and open-source solutions, and effectively demonstrating cost savings through performance metrics
  • Directing key consulting operational activities across the practice such as business updates, resource and scheduling, practice meetings and progression reviews
  • Promoting growth within the practice through mentoring, coaching and training initiatives
  • Planned revenue generation strategies designed for growth covering enhanced automation solutions derived from client demands with a target to obtain increased user and customer accessibility. Drafted procedural statements and guidelines for company-wide use during UiPath, LAIYE and low code/no code automation technology integration.

Key Achievements

  • Leading the on-boarding and all training activities across with the PwC Senior Leadership Team in the creation of a new Process & Technology delivery centre based in Cairo, designing new critical operational processes
  • Pioneer with regards to Microsoft Power Platform launch and deployment across PwC UK
  • Steering the technical design, build and implementation using a combination of UiPath to assist scheduling of customer contact messaging and integrating with the cloud based marketing tool SendGrid as 3rd party technical supplier, in efforts to underpin the marketing strategy and rollout for a international digital currency corporation
  • Collaboration with international commercial client supporting in Lean process excellence and technological build to support in extensive process migration resulting in a cost reduction of £3m per year
  • Promoting and driving new technology and strategy innovation proposal across Cloud and Digital division to introduce new platform and deliver new product delivery catalogue in efforts to support business strategy and competitive advantage in line with industry demand and volatility
  • Leading client workshops promoting the Digital Process Excellence expertise to secure new revenue more in excess of £2m

Re-Engineering & Automation Implementation Lead

Santander UK
2020.02 - 2022.05
  • Managing a team of Lean & RPA consultants leading process workshops and stakeholder management in supporting operational areas to achieve cost savings and transformational change using lean six-sigma methodology.
  • Leadership and support role in Kaizen Continuous Improvement Workshops covering a range of processes across the bank.
  • Delivery of Lean process excellence training across the UK bank as part of the groups strategy to implement continuous improvement.
  • Completion of internal E2E process mapping & future state design & orchestration via tools such as Anaheim and Visio, Duedil, Docusign & Quadient.
  • Engaging with key stakeholders in evolving methodology in response to business requirements and changes through creation of customer journeys, use case, epics, workflow and IT designs
  • Leading in the centralisation of new technologies such as Appian and OCR proof of concepts and drive the implementation, take up and delivery into operational processes to realise quantifiable benefits
  • Established a robust benefits realisation reporting strategy, outlining the agreed-upon cadence with senior stakeholders to ensure effective communication and tracking of significant project milestones & financial benefits
  • Application of Lean, Agile and Scrum methodologies as reference point throughout project lifecycle and particularly deployment of changes
  • Creation of Process architecture and detailed process mapping using tools such as Confluence, and Visio Mapping Tool

Key Achievements

  • Successfully drive and delivered multiple projects across Corporate & Investment banking & Mortgages division including realignment of online applications process leading to improved customer satisfaction via a reduction in lead time, removal of duplication and enhanced cost savings
  • Delivered Process Excellence training to over 200 colleagues and supported accreditation to become Santander Lean consultants
  • Delivered a Digital Corporate on-boarding platform & processes, enhancing customer satisfaction, internal colleague experience, reducing manual activity and improving controls. Managing new 3rd party applications, & delivering training to operation teams & front office teams, reducing average on-boarding days from 96 to 22 days for a corporate account
  • Delivered radical Lean re-engineering and RPA design to meet critical deadlines involving standardisation of complexity surrounding corporate pricing process requiring the buy in from process and product owners
  • Driving exposure and representing the Lean Process & Intelligent Automation team in new areas of the bank providing expertise and information, coaching and awareness regarding Lean functionality and solutionising building key relationships

Process Improvement and Robotics Design Consultant

Santander UK
2018.05 - 2020.02
  • Challenges the status quo & working closely with process owners and development teams in achieving optimal resolutions in the resdesign of existing processes to achieve cost efficiency, customer journey refinement, drive operational efficiencies with a focus to decrease operational risk.
  • Application of Agile methodologies as reference point throughout project lifecycle & particularly deployment of any changes.
  • Creation of RPA architecture & detailed process changes using tools such as Confluence and Visio Mapping Tool.

Key Achievements

  • Lead BA of radical re-engineering and RPA build to meet a critical deadline involving standardisation of complexity surrounding corporate pricing requiring buy in from process and product owners to in house system providers
  • Driving exposure & representing the RPA team in new areas of the bank providing expertise and information regarding RPA functionality, solutionising and building key relationships.

Corporate Servicing & Financial Crime Graduate

Santander UK
2016.05 - 2018.05
  • Corporate Servicing Team Manager mentoring and leading team in driving operational efficiencies while adhering to Governance, Risk and Compliance.
  • Financial Crime Team Manager leading new team in retail customer screening training in alignment with strict Governance and Controls. Management of day-to-day responsibilities within the team alongside operational efficiencies and mentoring of employee development.
  • Corporate Project Support role assisting senior leadership team in data analysis & collation of proposed recommendations with regards to Day 0 servicing, Complaints Data Review, Third Party SLA Performance and Offshore Activity.

Key Achievements

  • Owned and managed Corporate Servicing performance levels across a 6 week period influencing team members in proposed revised way of working leading to achieving Day 0 service level agreements across 21 workstreams.
  • Volunteering in the FCO training program leading and mentoring new starters with regards to new Financial Crime workstreams across several sites nationwide ensuring all new employees perform diligently while remaining productive.

Development Manager

Provident Financial
2015.10 - 2016.05
  • Adhering closely to FCA regulatory framework while continually driving team performance and leading initiatives
  • Relationship Management in assisting agents in building long term customer relationships through sensitive and challenging environments
  • Providing structured support & tuition to team in terms of self-development and business development
  • Monitoring & highlighting compliance during operational day to day responsibilities
  • Recruited high-performing, motivated staff to support strategy delivery.

Management Graduate

Smart Fleet Solutions
2014.09 - 2015.09
  • Data analysis and creation of business growth proposals in alignment with current operational model
  • Management of Sales and Operations team providing regular team huddle updates to gain buy in terms of ongoing technological and operational changes.
  • Neutering and developing relationships with key customer accounts via effective customer service
  • Assisted with day-to-day operations and completed assigned management tasks.
  • Liaised with managers, supervisors and other senior staff, communicating clearly and concisely.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Studies

Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool
9 2010 - 7 2014

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering & Discovery – Proficient in capturing and prioritising business, user, and technical requirements; translating them into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria to support backlog creation and E2E process and product planning
  • Lean process methodologies - Streamline workflows, reduce waste, and drive efficiency across product and delivery teams
  • Lean Process & Service Design – Application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies to re-engineer processes during the product lifecycle—from discovery and MVP definition to delivery, optimisation, and continuous support
  • Data-Driven Insight – Skilled in leveraging tools like UiPath and Celonis for process, communication, and task mining to inform diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics that underpin process/product decisions
  • Automation Strategy – Leadership and promotion of RPA/Low Code product ecosystems, focusing on scalable, sustainable automation platforms that deliver real user value
  • Management of RAID logs - Proactively track and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies, ensuring predictable delivery and minimal program disruption
  • Establishing & maintaining governance frameworks - Ensuring timely identification, escalation, and resolution of critical issues to protect delivery outcomes
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration – Strong communicator, bridging the gap between software solution architects, principal engineers, and business stakeholders to align on product vision and execution
  • Scope of Work (SoW) Ownership – Experienced in shaping SoWs that reflect product goals, engineering complexity, and realistic delivery timelines
  • Continuous Improvement & Iteration – Advocates data-informed iterative development model focused on ongoing process optimisation, customer feedback, and experimentation
  • Business Process & Experience Design – Expertise in designing user-centric business processes that align with service design and enterprise architecture principles
  • Advanced Process Analysis – Delivers in-depth analysis of current-state processes to identify product opportunities, inefficiencies, and innovation gaps
  • Analytics Implementation – Leads implementation of analytics frameworks and dashboards to monitor product KPIs and inform roadmap prioritisation
  • Product Roadmap & Release Planning – Defining and managing roadmaps, release schedules, and sprint planning using Scrum and Kanban frameworks
  • Stakeholder Engagement & C-Suite Reporting – Builds trust at all levels, providing regular product health updates, business case support, and vision alignment at executive level
  • Value Stream Mapping (VSM) – Applies VSM to uncover bottlenecks and guide digital product initiatives and operational improvements
  • Customer-Centric Product Thinking – Maintains a relentless focus on customer value, usability, and outcomes through all phases of the product lifecycle
  • Influence & Stakeholder Alignment – Able to influence clients and internal stakeholders with data-driven recommendations, aligning product direction with business impact
  • Coaching & Leadership – A skilled people leader, fostering high-performing, motivated teams grounded in purpose, delivery, and continuous improvement

Certification

  • UiPath Certified Professional Automation Developer Associate
  • Microsoft Power Platform
  • Cloud and AWS Practitioner
  • Blue Prism Certified
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Management
  • Automation Anywhere Essentials Certification
  • Santander Accelerated Leadership Programme
  • Santander Future Leaders Programme

Timeline

Squad Lead/Process/Delivery/Product Lead

AND Digital
2024.02 - 2026.03

Digital Process Excellence & Automation Lead

PwC UK
2022.05 - 2023.11

Re-Engineering & Automation Implementation Lead

Santander UK
2020.02 - 2022.05

Process Improvement and Robotics Design Consultant

Santander UK
2018.05 - 2020.02

Corporate Servicing & Financial Crime Graduate

Santander UK
2016.05 - 2018.05

Development Manager

Provident Financial
2015.10 - 2016.05

Management Graduate

Smart Fleet Solutions
2014.09 - 2015.09

Bachelor of Arts - Business Studies

Liverpool John Moores University
9 2010 - 7 2014
Rebecca Corrigan