Ben Kemble

Experience

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  John Wiley and Sons

  Aug 2008 - May 2015

  • Day to day project management of the overall teams commissioning process, prioritising tasks and organising schedules to meet the needs of the department.• Project Management of a range of media including print, eBooks, Mobile Apps and Audiobooks.• Constructing and developing new workflows and processes for bespoke publishing products.• Special Project - Implementation of ‘Book Project Management System’ - selected as Super-User for the new online management system for the company. This included overseas training and support to the division for the roll out of the new system. Show less

  • Associate Commissioning Editor

    Mar 2013 - May 2015

  • Assistant Editor

    Jan 2010 - Feb 2013

  • Production Editor

    Aug 2009 - Jan 2010

  • Production Assistant

    Aug 2008 - Aug 2009
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  Smart Labs Bournemouth

  Jul 2015 - Feb 2017

  Project Manager

  * Project Managing the end to end delivery of a range of commercial business and web development projects. Monitoring projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality. * Working directly with a range of stakeholders at various levels to communicate project priorities, define scope and identify risks and issues. * Organising regular project meetings and allocating team tasks to Designers, Web Developers and Marketing colleagues ensuring project milestones are met. * Maintaining project workflows by updating key project documents and software, using Gantt Charts, Kanban Boards, producing Project Flows as well as monitoring team sprints within a SCRUM methodology environment. Show less

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  Ordnance Survey

  Mar 2017 - May 2019

  Managing a range of IT and business change projects across the company's investment portfolio.Working with Project Sponsors to understand scope and managing business benefit realisation within the delivery of the project.Ensuring project delivery via agile and waterfall methodologies.Stakeholder management, at project team and director level - via project status reporting.Managing budgets and tracking finances across multiple projects with £1M+ multi phase budgets.Identifying risks and managing issues across the project lifecycle.Working with 3rd Party suppliers to agree contracts and deliver services. Show less Providing support and cover for Snr Project Managers and Programme ManagersManaging a range of IT and business change projects across the company's investment portfolio.Stakeholder management, at project team level with up to date project reporting.Managing budgets and tracking finances across multiple projects with budgets in excess of £250k.Identifying Risks and managing issues across the project lifecycle.Ensuring Scope is identified and managed throughout the project, to ensure project benefits are realised. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2018 - May 2019

  • Associate Project Manager

    Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
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  Specsavers

  May 2019 - Dec 2019

  IT Project Manager
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  Ordnance Survey

  Jan 2020 - now

  • Senior Delivery Manager

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Senior Project Manager

    Nov 2020 - Aug 2022

  • IT Project Manager

    Jan 2020 - Nov 2020