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Innovative CIO / CTO with a track record of leading successful business transformation within large global organisations. Experienced across a number of sectors including: Energy (Oil & Gas), Retail, Online/Digital, Technology, Multi-Channel, and Mobile Telecoms. Strong transformational and operational leadership and strategic-level portfolio / programme management experience gained at FTSE 100 companies including Vodafone, BP, Tesco and...

Innovative CIO / CTO with a track record of leading successful business transformation within large global organisations. Experienced across a number of sectors including: Energy (Oil & Gas), Retail, Online/Digital, Technology, Multi-Channel, and Mobile Telecoms. Strong transformational and operational leadership and strategic-level portfolio / programme management experience gained at FTSE 100 companies including Vodafone, BP, Tesco and Sainsbury. Results orientated and customer-focused. Delivering innovative business and IT solutions. Leading global teams in excess of 200 and managing budgets of £250M+. Specialities: - Business partnership collaborating with other senior executives using technology to deliver simplification/transformation to enhance profits, and customer experience - IT Leadership, talent recruitment,coaching and mentoring - Customer insight, CRM, business intelligence and big data - Change management, strategy definition and delivery - IT Operations Service Delivery, continual improvement using Lean Six Sigma methods - Vendor/Partner management and contract negotiations - Multi-Channel environments, web platforms including mobile - IT Architecture, Infrastructure and innovative Cloud solutionsChief Technology Officer (CTO) @ From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Northampton, United KingdomHead of IT (Transformation - NewCo) @ NewCo is a £250M+ major strategic business change programme. Delivering significant business simplification, costs efficiency and multi-channel customer experience. The IT transformation involves delivering the complete Oracle Communications suite of products out of the box combined with Oracle Retail and Online implementing new business processes and full organisational transformation. This is currently one of the largest IT programmes of its kind in the telecoms sector. From August 2012 to March 2015 (2 years 8 months) Head of IT (Delivery and Operations) @ Recruited to lead all IT Development and Operations across Vodafone UK IT. Leading a team of 120+ employees, an outsourced supplier base in excess of 1000 people and a budget over £90M From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Global Applications Delivery Manager @ Leading the Global Corporate and Functions IT Delivery consisting of 350 applications, $45M budget, diverse teams spread across UK, US and India. Including BP.com, eDiscovery platforms, Treasury and Finance systems transacting $8BN per day. IT Crisis Management during Gulf of Mexico incident. From October 2009 to September 2011 (2 years) Senior Programme Manager (International Store Systems) @ Developing and Delivering the Tesco Operating Model and systems into Tesco's International businesses (Central Europe, US, India & South East Asia) From January 2009 to October 2009 (10 months) Business Systems Portfolio Manager (Retail) @ Accountable for the IT in Tesco's 2000+ stores in the UK. Leadership of 125+ people onshore/offshore and a budget in excess of £30M From February 2007 to January 2009 (2 years) Head Of Programme Delivery (Applications Development) @ Development for applications across Supply Chain, Integration Services, MIS, HR & RFID. Offshoring of 160+ roles to the Tesco's captive IT and services facility in Bangalore, India From February 2006 to January 2007 (1 year) Programme Manager (Marketing) @ Delivery of numerous projects including Customer Management (Single Customer View); Smart Vouchers, Online Deals (e-commerce). Ownership of the business case and programme budget £20M. From October 2004 to January 2006 (1 year 4 months) Project Manager (Group Customer Loyalty) @ Development of first “Tesco In A Box” Next Generation Clubcard solution. Implementation of Clubcard for Samsung Tesco (South Korea) and Tesco Lotus (Thailand). From February 2002 to September 2004 (2 years 8 months) Project Manager (Marketing) @ From May 2001 to February 2002 (10 months) Neil Pearce is skilled in: IT Transformation, Change Management, Business Intelligence, Program Management, Social Networking, Talent Management, Executive Coaching, IT Outsourcing, Offshoring, IT Strategy, IT Operations, Management, Cloud Computing, Outsourcing, Strategy