Matt Platt

Experience

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  Copsey Communications Consultants

  Jun 2006 - Feb 2011

  • General Project Manager

    Feb 2010 - Feb 2011

  • Engineering Project Manager

    Oct 2008 - Jan 2010

  • Project Coordinator

    Jun 2006 - Sept 2008
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  Snell

  Jul 2011 - Mar 2015

  As Project Manager, reporting to Head of Professional Services, responsible for developing detailed understanding of customer requirements and building plan to implement requirements while overseeing implementation and maintaining ongoing customer support. I was accountable for delivering projects to schedule, scope and budget and building effective relationships with all customers while aiding Customer Organisations to build effective Project teams for engineering, software, sales and support skillsets / functions. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Feb 2013 - Mar 2015

  • Project Engineer

    Jul 2011 - Jan 2013
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  BCA Marketplace

  Mar 2015 - Jun 2023

  I was promoted to Head of Portfolio, reporting to Group CIO, and was responsible for operating as Head of IT Projects, representing delivery in operational, budgetary and reporting conversations at C-level while supporting leadership decisions derived from PMO data. I was additionally accountable for providing cultural leadership across department, creating accurate pipelines with business stakeholders, building departmental budgets and forming departmental strategies. I was directly responsible for management of 3 Portfolio Managers, Lead BA and PMO Manager and associated reporting team of >30, including external contractors and Partners. I was required to build matrix-managed teams spanning BCA, measured by KPIs that drive tight project delivery focus for success and headcount spend per project / aligned to budgetary targets.Key achievements include:◼ Championed cultural initiatives during COVID which kept teams connected, motivated and developed.◼ Supported post M&A integration of Marshall Group Dealerships with resource and delivery capability.◼ Developed programme of remediation to address security vulnerabilities and leverage existing Group datacentre and cloud infrastructure capabilities that saved £confidential in annual hosting fees.◼ Led creation of / decision making for IT strategy, while determining impact on priorities in context of annual budgeting cycles, by consulting with Leadership throughout Technology.◼ Transitioned to staff augmentation model that reduced team spend by £confidential annually while enabling downscaling of team when project loads / requirements were reduced. Show less As Head of IT Projects, reporting to Group CIO, I gained promotion based on target operating model design project and for creating technology department ways-of-working, demand and capacity management processes. I was responsible for driving implementation across forthcoming 2-years and accountable for managing delivery processes and multiple teams for all 60 live concurrent projects, transparently articulating how to engage technology for all stakeholders while improving technology delivery success rate and reputation internally.Key achievements include:◼ Established selection process for new secured finance solution that saved £confidential licensing and implementation costs over 2 years.◼ Championed introduction of new processes and tooling, spanning 90% of technology department that uncovered cost savings valued £confidential.◼ Drove cross-functional collaboration, self-service senior-level visibility and standardised reporting that halved time managing pipelines and reduced rate of failed initiatives to vanishingly small proportions. Show less As Programme Manager, reporting to Head of Programme Delivery, I was responsible for delivering complex operational and technology change initiatives spanning entire organisation while managing programmes and projects to schedule, scope and budget to meet expectation alignment and to improve performance. Key achievements include:◼ Delivered largest set of new capabilities for single customer in Constellation’s history, managing cross-functional team for high-visibility initiative, spanning technology and operational change. ◼ Converted initially negative Customer Relationship Management / CRM experience, culminating in customer’s Senior Director speaking at 2018 Internal Management Conference. Show less As Project Manager, reporting to Programme Manager, I was responsible for delivering all operational and technological change projects and for managing all programmes / projects ensuring schedule adherence, scope and budget meet final expectations with full alignment while improving wider performance.Key achievements include:◼ Aided CFO to lead Senior Directors, successfully migrating staff to BCA processes and systems while establishing longer term cultural realignment.◼ Led integration of newly acquired Scottish Motor Auctions, aligning people, operational processes, Finance, IT systems, information security, business intelligence, business process improvement and vendor management workstreams. Show less

  • Head of Portfolio

    Feb 2020 - Jun 2023

  • Head of IT Projects

    Oct 2018 - Feb 2020

  • Programme Manager

    Jun 2016 - Oct 2018

  • Project Manager

    Mar 2015 - May 2016
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  Chartered Management Institute

  Aug 2023 - now

  Events Lead, Board Member
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  Safetykleen

  Sept 2023 - now

  Interim Programme Director