Ivan Snell

Retained: - by the Group Financial Controller and CIO of FMCG major to recover a £20 million crisis programme Approach: - led team of 48 on the basis of an initial 45 day recovery plan followed by 27 week delivery reset plan Outcome: - for the first time a release, final release R2A, ‘Go Live’ delivered to time and budget. Programme closed.

Singularly responsible for leading the delivery of a multi-year business driven change programme implementing the new BG annual planning & forecasting system, enabled by SAP BPC 7.5 NetWeaver world-wide across 5 continents, to 425 users in over 30 countries.

Retained: by four CEOs, to work with them to conduct a strategic review of their IT functions to identify opportunities to reduce cost through consolidating all of their IT services. Approach:conducted a short, ten day, review of all four organisation’s IT resources including IT infrastructure, applications, resources and service delivery models, led `understanding now’ workshop and presented findings to the CEOs in a `way forward’ workshop and identified a benefit case exceeding £2 million

Retained: by the Group Strategy & Technology Director, Group IM, to lead a team of five strategy analysts in creating the IT strategy Approach: took a hands on approach to work with, and direct, the team to develop a new outline IT Strategy for the CIO which was six months late, and to create and own a team charter and plan. Recruited a fulltime replacement. Led development of an initiative to drive process standardisation and simplificatication engaging with 20 senior business leaders across TfL.

Retained: by the Group Strategy & Technology Director, Group Information Management (IM) to lead the Target Enterprise Architecture (TeA) project to consolidate on a number of strategic Enterprise Service Platforms (ESPs). Approach: mobilised team of TfL architects, contractors and consultants to deliver the TfL Group IM TeA programme including all transport modes and business, applications, technology and information services Outcome: CIO signed off programme recommendations

Retained by industry Partner to develop sales pipeline, identify and qualify prospects through to closure.

Retained: by the Commercial Director to give him and the CIO improved visibility of, and influence over, the demand and supply drivers of the spend through improved management information (MI) Approach: drove through the definition and subsequent delivery of a $7M multi-year business change programme. Recruited, motivated and managed a cross-functional team (15 core, 50+ extended) utilising 6 sigma and a range of BI tools and applications to deliver integrated process, data and systems change

Retained: by the Chief Information Director Strategy & Integration to initiate and lead a six month project to develop the five year IT Strategy for the downstream business ($600M global IT spend) Approach:defined and gained agreement to the strategy development approach and its contents at all levels. Managed the strategy journey including building and then twice rebuilding the project team Outcome: the strategy, a $50M business case & outline transformation initiatives, were delivered and approved.

Business Development, launching the first independent report published of its kind on telco innovation in the UK. Retained: self initiated and funded business development project Approach:designed the research tool, interviewed 25 senior executives, researched and wrote the report Outcome: the report was successfully published & sold in electronic format at www.snellconsultancy.co.uk

Retained: by the Digital Business European IT Director & Managing Director to manage a $7M, six month, SAP Industry Solutions – Utilities (IS-U) implementation, the first of its kind in the UK Approach: led a team of seventy-one including staff from a Systems Integrator (SI) and SAP development team. Played an instrumental role in escalating non-delivery by the SI and eventual contract termination Outcome: saved the client £2.4M and initiated programme recovery at the design phase.

Retained: by Global eCommerce Director to project manage, over a three-month period, the UK go to market activities for the rapid launch of the telco’s B2B hosted eCommerce application service Approach: defined `go to market’ activities and led virtual team to complete deliverables Outcome: the service was successfully launched by the Ready for Service (RFS) date.

Retained: by the Global eCommerce Director to assist team of product managers with launching a suite of new web hosting services as part of a £50 million service development programme Approach: led activities to mobilise the entire programme & then joined team as a product manager. Outcome: the services were successfully launched into the European market in record time

Senior Telecoms Business Consultant – Sold, then led or worked on over 25 projects.