• Built the global business from the ground up.
• Part-time team of 15, led by myself and 4 others in the Business Leadership.

Successes:

• MVP for sissoo.com - an online multi vendor B2B2C marketplace providing health & well-being based services
• 18 to 60 Suppliers added in the last 12 months (233%+)
• 95% of users are new (currently 135 per day)
• German government awarded Spiritualme the INVEST grant as a ?young and innovative company?.

• All responsibilities of previous Global Enterprise Architect role (from 2013)
• End to end overall organisational responsibility for Essity?s Enterprise Architecture & Information, including BI, Software Supply and Quality Assurance
• Approximate ? 8 million internal budget per annum
• Direction of a total of 45 permanent employees, 6 direct, plus 30-40 externals
• Approximate ? 100 million 2020 Program budget (SAP based ?EWoW?).

Successes:

• Developed the 3/5 year Essity-wide Target Architecture & led the required strategies, operating models & staffing to realise it (SAP based ?EWoW? Program)
• Developed and rolled out the Enterprise Architecture Network, including clear roles & responsibilities and continued strengthening via external recruitment
• Drove performance of the architecture function from a Gartner ITscore of 2.4 to 2.9 in 12 months
• Made radical and rapid improvements to BI by, for example, increasing the scope to Enterprise Information, splitting the service, people and platform responsibilities to dedicated resources with extensive experience
• Took technology innovation to the next level, via improved R&D efforts resulting in a higher number, more approved Proof of Concepts, and value realisation
• Developed the Square Quality Assurance framework (ISO25000) for use across IT
• Dramatically improved on boarding, education and communication via formal content creation, communication planning and delivery across multiple channels (e-learnings, articles, video, stakeholder management).

• Develop and maintain the overall architectural framework
• Sponsor and coordinate the development of architecture roadmaps & references through technology & supplier trends, business requirements, market forces & cost trends. Approx. ? 1 million budget per annum
• Coordinate architecture domains across Essity and is a focal point for alignment issues
• Ensure ongoing maintenance, approval and communication of Essity standards
• Support IT projects to ensure appropriate alignment to Essity standards
• Foster an innovation culture by increasing awareness and adoption of emerging technologies, innovation processes and capabilities
• Ownership of the Software Supply Stream Strategy
• Supports IT strategic supply with critical architectural input.

Successes:

• Developed and rolled out the (first for Essity) architecture framework across the information, application and technology domains; including process, governance and reference architectures (for use by the Architecture Group of 15+)
• Drove performance and development of the architecture capability to a recognised valuable level of maturity
• Ran a product information study to anchor the future vision and roadmap. Implemented with an approximate ? 4 million budget
• Made the case for Information Management & Architecture to be a strategic focus of our Digital Transformation journey
• Delivered innovative capabilities in the areas of mobility and process mining
• Developed the innovation forum, ran innovation challenges, contributed to the innovation newsletters.

• Expert in the SAP Order to Billing area for the creation, support, roll out and continuous improvement of the Sales, Distribution & WMS template
• Compliance and extensive use of the ITIL framework

Successes:

• Designed and rolled out an European Customer Master de-duplication and migration effort into 57 sales organisations and 25 countries in 5 months
• Initiated a Global Rebate process improvement project from fact finding, scoping, stakeholder buy-in, planning and approx. ? 200K budget approval
• Consulting for USA and Canada integration to SCA?s global template
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM data take-on and go-live for the UK and France.

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