Spencer Rabey

Experience

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  Boots Group PLC – Head Office

  Mar 2006 - Jul 2006

  Assistant Manager Supply Chain

  Management and liaison with suppliers to maintain stock for over 3000 stores across the UK.

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  East Midlands Regional Assembly

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2010

  Responsible for sustainable development projects to reduce carbon footprint of the Regional Assembly and a behavioural change regional stakeholder event.Development of training programmes to meet the Assembly’s Business Plan.Responsible for website maintenance and development.

  • Regional Scrutiny Officer

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  • Corporate Graduate Trainee

    Oct 2007 - Jul 2008
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  UK Ministry of Defence

  Sept 2010 - Jan 2020

  Super User roles are part of DE&S' transformation, primarily acting as change agents as well as providing coaching and training to colleagues across Air Domain on planning and scheduling with Primavera P6.Lead Scheduler for Defence Technology Group delivering earned value performance monitoring across the portfolio. Responsible for:Adoption of Primavera P6 Coaching and training in a new P3M tool suite Monthly performance & resource management and EVM reporting for 1&2* leadsProcess development Show less Designed and delivered P3M Super User strategy to Adoption Working Group covering risk, dependencies and next steps by drawing upon Systems Thinking principles to provide vision for delivery.Oversaw delivery of processes to meet requirements for P3M tool configuration as part of DE&S' transformation, led process development and coherence reviews, reported progress of delivery milestones to 1* lead. Delivered governance and sign off approach for processes to meet project controls requirements to meet time line for implementing P3M configuration with Deloitte. Supported delivery of road map for P3M adoption through working with Adoption Working Group. P3M adoption including P6, Unifier, Team Member Oracle Business Analytics. Provision of support to standing up the Project Controls function as part of Transformation by providing a strategy for Estimating and setting up scheduler community of interest. Show less Redesigned modelling strategy for equipment support estimating and development of cost estimating relationships for AJAX. Led engagement with front line command to review support assumptions with DE&S. Delivered Review Note for AJAX Extension to Initial In Service Support (EIISS), led cross functional team to meet stretching goals, provided briefings to DG Res and received Minister Defence Procurement award November 2016 with the AJAX team.Delivered Quarterly Review Project Cost outputs for land (for Equipment Procurement Programme and Equipment Support Programme) and presentation of findings to 1* and 2* colleagues. Led risk reviews and workshops of CTAI cannon, AJAX contract and implemented findings into estimates to provide additional scenarios and impacts. Delivered technical assistance, advice and modelling support to Defence Academy and Army HQ as part of development programme for newly promoted Majors. Show less Designed and delivered a learning and development programme for 500 colleagues across the Cost Assurance and Analysis Service’s professions - forecasters, engineers, and accountants. Creation of management information and rolling wave plan for training to enable effective delivery through learning from experience and reporting to CAAS Board.Developed senior executive colleagues by designing, implementing and delivering a leadership programme reinforced with six-month mentoring.Redesigned CAAS' IPEC QI methodology to be user friendly and manage tasks across the business. This became the means to capture learning from experience for the business. Show less Developed 30+ estimators to level 3 (practitioner) across all domains through provision of training events, coaching and performance assessment on estimating products and services, including risk, uncertainty, historical trends and analysis of modelling outputs.With colleagues redesigned traditional six week training course for forecasters (estimators) into a modularised training package to build experience whilst training. Reviewed and rewrote estimating processes and desk instructions. Show less Main Gate products and services for MARS Fleet Tanker and developed initial estimates for Fleet Solid Support.Output for Grand Cost Challenge (which became Quarterly Review of Project Costs - QRPC) delivered estimates for DOTCA and MARS Fleet Tanker. Delivery of project Start-up Project Foundation Strategy (PSPF) for CAAS and DE&S. Working with Heads of Capability and other stakeholders, such as DSTL and Niteworks to embed. Delivered assurance for estimating strategies. Redesigned data readiness levels (DRLs) for approvals to include PSPF criteria for pre CADMID projects. Developed and led delivery of PSPF training. Show less

  • Senior Project Control Manager

    Jul 2018 - Jan 2020

  • P6 Super User & Lead Scheduler

    Feb 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Systems Manager

    Apr 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Senior Cost Forecaster (Estimator) - Land

    Apr 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Learning and Development Manager

    Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

  • Cost Forecasting (Estimating) Technical Coach

    Jan 2012 - Mar 2013

  • Cost Forecaster - Maritime

    Sept 2010 - Dec 2011
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  Higher Culloden Farm & Glamping

  May 2020 - now

  Small Business Owner
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  Nourish Kernow

  Mar 2023 - now

  Founder