Tunde Cole
Senior Project Manager
Summary
A senior project manager with Prince 2, Agile, Scrum Master and business analysis certifications, ready to understand complex business challenges faced by businesses and customers and deliver change into operational environments.
Success in delivering change initiatives and technology-driven solutions into organisations across various sectors including retail, manufacturing (digital products), banking, public sector and charity.
Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making and responding to shifting business needs and priorities.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Business Change Lead
Science in Sport
London
07.2021 - 11.2022
- Oversight of high-profile technology projects in the business (from needs analysis to implementation) ensuring specified business and solution requirements have justifiable business case and are delivered within tolerance
- Delivered a B2B capability in the supply chain function to achieve £1million annual savings in operations and carriage cost
- Led the design and implementation of a target operating model for a new warehouse operation - consolidated three warehouse operations (including two 3PLs) from different locations into a new one
- Implemented a new warehouse management system for B2B operations and integrated the technology and relevant processes with SAP ERP and existing B2C technology
- Re-engineered critical processes in manufacturing, supply chain, new product development, quality assurance, E-commerce and finance to resolve recurring issues that hindered the business from meeting revenue and performance targets, and customer expectations
- Re-engineered operational processes adversely impacting profit margin and achieved a significant increase in EBIDTA numbers
- Assessed operant systems for efficiency and functionality, providing written suggestions on enhancements needed to meet operational goals.
- Led continuous improvement activities for prioritised business processes
- Established and led a PMO that centralised coordinated and business and project reporting across the business, also acted as the centre of excellence for delivering all change projects in the business
- Responsible for ensuring that change initiatives had continued business justification, tracked realised benefits and managed vendor relationships.
Portfolio/PMO Manager
Konica Minolta Inc
London
01.2019 - 06.2021
- Oversight and management of product use cases for different product categories including smart office solutions, cognitive services, cyber security, API Management, cloud technology services and data Management
- Implemented governance framework across different programmes that enabled the business to monitor and optimise its investment on product innovation activities, and reduced time to market for new products
- Established risk management practice in the business and facilitated adoption across different sites in Europe
- Implemented a PPM tool for the business and supported PPM maturity by providing personalised end-user training, offering education via in-person and online courses
- Created and managed product roadmap across all product channels to create a single view of prioritised business milestones and aligned impacting workstreams
- Managed scrum teams across different geographic locations and time zones ensuring product features delivered by each scrum team are in sync with overarching product increments and major releases
- Supported product owners in prioritising product backlogs by analysing and clearly communicating prioritised business requirements
- Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules
- Worked with Programme Managers, Project Managers, workstream leads, scrum teams/DevOps and administration teams in managing exceptions
- Effectively managed resources and budget to avoid overspend and maximise available resources
Senior Change Analyst
Natwest
London
11.2015 - 12.2018
- Played a major role in developing implementation plans for different tranches of the Lombard (Asset Finance) Transformation programme based on business requirements and IT strategy
- Responsible for tracking and reporting on key deliverables, RAIDs, milestones and resource utilisation across the programme
- Project managed the implementation of Planview (PPM reporting tool) releases and led the adoption of the tool across the Lombard programme conducting virtual and in-person workshops in different locations across the UK
- Managed requirements backlog for future releases of the PPM solution ensuring key requirements were specified and planned for delivery.
- Acted as primary point of contact for third-party vendors involved in major operational changes to coordinate with external personnel.
- Created and optimized records management strategies to coordinate and protect information.
Business Change Lead
Jotham Cole Ltd
London
01.2015 - 09.2015
- Responsible for requirements management activities to design the current state of the business area, worked with head of department and senior managers to design the future state
- Used appropriate modelling techniques to drive common understanding of the real problems, enabling effective requirements elicitation activities
- Organised documented requirements into logical categories for easy retrieval, traceability and facilitate impact analysis for change requests
- Worked with SMEs and programme managers in conducting gap analysis and the implementation of the future state
Business Analyst
Digital Bananas Technology
07.2014 - 01.2015
- Actively involved in requirements management activities for Salesforce Implementation
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements
- Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope
- Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement
- Modelled business processes to understand current state and co-designed future state with SMEs.
Project Coordinator
Imperial College
London
04.2014 - 05.2014
- Acted as the first point of contact for colleagues within Imperial, administrative staff, Joint Research office and academic staff regarding any existing and new projects
- Worked closely with the project partner in Lyon, France for all project dissemination activities
- Supported internal projects, working with the project manager and core admin support staff on the various projects within the portfolio to ensure queries were responded to effectively
- Led on the on-going development and update of the Exposomics project website content.
Business Development Manager
Ebenezer Ventures
London
01.2011 - 03.2014
- Performed client research and identified opportunities for account growth, account penetration and market expansion
- Developed and implemented favourable pricing structures balancing firm objectives against customer targets
- Established relationships with key decision-makers within customer's organization to promote growth and retention
- Identified key products, services and customers and used data to devise innovative sales and marketing plans enabling dramatic growth
- Completed and submitted monthly and yearly reports to support executive decision making
- Performed research to uncover potential target areas, markets and industries
Education
B.A. - Business Studies
University of Gloucestershire
Skills
Project budget allocation
Strategic planning
Technical project planning
Agile project management
Dependency tracking
Quality assurance
Vendor relationship management
Risk assessment and mitigation
Waterfall methodology
Excellent Communication
Planning and Coordination
MS Office 365
Visio
Jira and Confluence
MS Project
Resource Management
Needs assessments
Gap analysis
Workflow Analysis
Financial Management
Data Mapping
Operations analysis
Business process mapping
Business planning
Competitive analysis
Budget Analysis
Project Timeline Generation
Workstream Organization
Business Partner Relationship Management
Project Status Reports
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Certification
PRINCE 2
Timeline
Business Change Lead
Science in Sport
07.2021 - 11.2022
Portfolio/PMO Manager
Konica Minolta Inc
01.2019 - 06.2021
Senior Change Analyst
Natwest
11.2015 - 12.2018
Business Change Lead
Jotham Cole Ltd
01.2015 - 09.2015
Business Analyst
Digital Bananas Technology
07.2014 - 01.2015
Project Coordinator
Imperial College
04.2014 - 05.2014
Business Development Manager
Ebenezer Ventures
01.2011 - 03.2014
B.A. - Business Studies
University of Gloucestershire