Tara Davis

Experience

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  Sainsbury's Bank

  Jul 2006 - Aug 2009

  Campaign Manager
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  Tesco Bank

  Sept 2009 - Aug 2014

  I was responsible for managing retention of credit card customers and implementing projects to support product and customer propositions to achieve volume and profit targets. Involved using insight and value based analysis to design and test new initiatives, developing new processes to map the delivery of commercial projects and managing budgets within plan. Was responsible for planning and delivering the Travel Money customer and product strategy to meet turnover and profitability targets.

  • Retention Change Manager, Credit Cards

    May 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Senior Commercial Manager, Travel Money

    Jun 2012 - May 2013

  • Commercial Manager, Personal Loans

    Sept 2010 - Jun 2012

  • Marketing Manager

    Sept 2009 - Sept 2010
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  Sainsbury's Bank

  Sept 2014 - Jan 2019

  Responsible for planning, managing and delivering change across central IT, Change and business units from planning to implementation, across multiple stakeholders and suppliers. Involved managing programme releases to deliver product, technical and regulatory changes. Within this role I managed the end to end delivery of complex IT releases,as part of a large programme, to deliver new products, implement regulatory changes and improve functionality across banking systems (Savings, Loans and Credit Cards). My role also included developing change framework with project team and key suppliers to manage new changes into the programme, defining product roadmap, creating backlog management process, analysing benefits and tracking deliverables. I led a team involving direct management of Junior PM resource and matrix management across business and testing analysts. Show less I was responsible for product design and strategy and managing change across saving products.Included managing all changes to Savings products, developing implementation and communication plans, liaised with business stakeholders and acting as the key business SME. As the Change Manager within Savings I managed the design and configuration of savings products and customer communications to support migration to a new IT platform and was the integral point of contact between the commercial team and the migration programme. I managed a small, high performing team. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2016 - Jan 2019

  • Commercial and Change Manager, Savings

    Sept 2014 - Oct 2016
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  Abrdn

  Jan 2019 - Sept 2023

  Project Manager

  Responsible for managing a small change team within the Discretionary wealth arm of abrdn, overseeing the wealth change portfolio and leading a number of project and programmes to delivery strategic benefits to the business. Involved technical delivery and system implementations, propositional launches and regulatory changes. Key activities included leading key workstreams across a large migration programme to change back office and custodian systems, delivering a full rebrand within 6 months and managing improvements to the front end client management platform. My role involved programme planning and reporting, developing and maintaining change governance frameworks, budget management and resource allocation across the change portfolio. Show less

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  LGT Wealth Management

  Sept 2023 - Feb 2025

  Project Manager

  Transitioned to LGT Wealth as part of the sale of the abrdn Discretionary business.

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  Nucleus Financial

  Mar 2025 - now

  Project Manager