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📖 Summary

A resourceful and adaptable IT leader, with extensive experience and reputation for leading successful teams, driving transformational change and delivering business benefits across a wide range of Retail Businesses and Financial Services providers. Focused on delivery through collaboration, people, process and technology. Extremely tenacious with a strong desire to succeed. Well versed in communicating complex solutions to executive and senior management. Passionate about delivering service and solutions enabling the business to achieve its strategic goals.Director of IS Service Delivery & Transition @ From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) IT Group Operations Director @ The role reports into the CIO of the Co-operative Group and is focussed on IT Transformation, Integration, IT security, IT Risk & Continuity, Governance, Partnering, Supplier Management, Finance & KPI Reporting and Planning for the Group covering both Financial Services and Retail businesses. The Group is a mature and diverse national retailer and financial services operator with turnover exceeding £14bn, operating throughout the UK from over 5,500 locations. Business areas include Food, Banking, Insurance, Pharmacy, Funerals, Legal, Online Electrical, and Motors. Key responsibilities include: To drive through IT change programmes Provide a consolidated IT Programme Office, CIO Office, Governance structure and adherence to overall operating model Lead the design and implementation of Group wide IT Security framework and standards Control and monitor IT risks and provision of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity services Commercial and financial planning and control Supplier and Partner relationships, driving value and service From April 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 5 months) Manchester, United KingdomGroup IT Director @ The role reported into the CEO of the Co-operative Group and had overall responsibility for IT across Trading Group, a mature and diverse national retail business with turnover exceeding £14bn, operating throughout the UK from over 5,500 sites. Business areas include Food, Pharmacy, Funerals, Travel, Online Electrical, Legal and Motors. Team size over 450 with annual revenue budget of £90m and capital spend of circa £50m A number of key achievements in the role were: Merged and integrated a variety of businesses including Somerfield Significant IT cost reduction circa £20m pa Developed and implemented IT business strategy IT Transformation including complete infrastructure refresh Increased employee engagement by 28% Developed new solutions to improve business process and MI From 2007 to April 2012 (5 years) Manchester, United KingdomGeneral Manager Information Services @ The role reported into the CEO of United Co-operatives and had overall responsibility for IT across the business, a large diverse regional retail business with turnover exceeding £2.5bn, operating from over 1,500 sites. Business areas include Food, Pharmacy, Funerals, Travel, Online Electrical and Motors. Team size over 80 with annual revenue budget of £15m and capital spend of circa £20m A number of key achievements in the role were: Integrated a number of large retail businesses Delivered substantial cost savings reducing IT spend by 25% and re-invested in customer facing technologies. Delivered a shared IS service function, refreshed all Food and Funeral systems. Created in-house Business Intelligence capability for the Food and Travel businesses Created a new primary Data Centre (consolidating 3 existing centres) and improved infrastructure resilience and scalability for the whole business. Created an in-house software development team delivering custom built specialist business applications. From March 2002 to July 2007 (5 years 5 months) Stoke-on-Trent, United KingdomHead of Business Systems @ From February 1997 to March 2002 (5 years 2 months) IT Leadership @ Cranfield University - Cranfield School of ManagementBA (Hons), Business Studies @ The Manchester Metropolitan University Ian Dyson is skilled in: Governance, Change Management, IT Strategy, Stakeholder Management, Business Transformation, Project Delivery, Integration, Business Process, IT Management, Outsourcing, Budgets, Business Intelligence, IT Service Management, Strategy, Team Leadership