Experience

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  Office for national statistics

  Jan 2002 - Nov 2012

  Data analysts and publications manager responsible for compilation of industrial disputes statistics and publication on a monthly and annual bases as part of the Labour Market statistics monthly release. In addition, responsible for two annual publications, one for the UK Labour Disputes and another for international comparisons. Data Analyst working on business statistics as part of the annual Business Registers Employment Survey.

  • Publications Manager

    Nov 2006 - Nov 2012

  • Data Analyst

    Jan 2002 - Oct 2006
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  Not applicable

  Nov 2012 - Apr 2013

  Career break

  Career break for travelling.

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  Office for national statistics

  May 2013 - now

  Providing strategic leadership within a complex portfolio of a major digital and data transformation programme, reporting to the Prime Minister.Responsible for the overarching strategy, strategic communications and engagement, business case development and benefits realisation, business change and organisational design.Leading a multimillion pound portfolio and providing leadership to over fifty diverse colleagues from across a variety of professions, including policy, communications and project delivery. Show less Led a cross government programme to share critical data across organisational boundaries post pandemic.- Lead cross-government delivery teams within four organisations to deliver end-to-end acquisition and integration of key data into shared government systems for the first time.- Broke down cultural barriers and silo'd working in government that saved government over £20 million in 2023 from reduction in duplicative activity.- Coordinated project meetings and progress reporting to Ministers, enhancing cross-government communication and efficiency through risk escalation and action.- Provided programme closure recommendations that were significant enough for a £350 million investment to create a government wide data sharing platform. Show less Developed high performing team from a low state of maturity to the highest performing and most respected in the organisation- Responsible for portfolio of 25 simultaneous projects, each exceeding £1 million.- Lead integrated cross-portfolio planning resulting in coherent and streamline reporting, reducing 97 monthly reports to 9.- Leadership of 20 direct and 50 indirect project professionals.- Enhanced productivity by introducing new planning and reporting tools (JIRA) while improved line of sight for the SRO.- Developed capabilities with an 80 per cent success rate of progression within a team of 70 project professionals.- Created best practice and award-winning project artifacts, subsequently used as organisational best practice. Show less Initiated and embedded a programme creating an inaugural data architecture function within the organisation.- Managed an annual budget of £10 million and oversaw multiple technical projects, embedding new resource management tools to track productivity.- Oversaw a portfolio of 12 concurrent projects, coordinating efforts across diverse teams and departments of the organisation to delivery the benefits case.- Enhanced productivity by introducing a new project management tool to replace over 20 legacy tools being used, saving over £1 million in licence costs.- Lead the end-to-end acquisition of HMRC data in to ONS systems for the first time, leading a cross-sector multidisciplinary team from initiation to close. Show less

  • Senior Programme Manager

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Head of Strategic Partnerships Communications and Engagement

    Jan 2024 - Nov 2024

  • Director of Strategy, Business Change, Communications and Organisational Design

    Oct 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Head of Strategy, Communications and Engagement

    Apr 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Senior Technical Program Manager

    Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

  • Head Of Programme Management Office

    Feb 2020 - Aug 2020

  • Senior Delivery Manager

    Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

  • Senior Technical Program Manager

    Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Senior Project Manager

    Oct 2016 - Sept 2017

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Data Analyst

    Feb 2014 - Jan 2015

  • Data Analyst

    May 2013 - Apr 2014