Public Sector Interim Profiles 


 

 

John – PFI Specialist Interim

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John is an established Interim Manager with extensive experience in the private and public sector including PFI. Since 1990 he has been operating as an interim and has proved himself to be a creative entrepreneurial project director with influence.

John has comprehensive change management practice enabling him to providing a broad band of services, he excels in strategic and project management having undertaken the role several times, he is a proven negotiator and able to set objectives to lead a team to a great performance and reach common goals.

Having worked in the public sector John has an appreciation of controlling the given resources, achieving and maintaining the high standards whilst working to budget.

 

John offers a broadening skill base with a client focus building to meet new demands and challenges intuitively having the ability to make decisions and then communicate them to the team within a responsive proactive positive working environment.

 

 

Peter – The customer service delivery Interim

 

Peter is a skilled trouble-shooter and problem solver who specialises in helping organisations align and manage activities (people, processes, services and systems) to meet customer needs and strategic goals, including developing customer-focused strategies, business process re-engineering, balanced scorecard and people management. 

 

Working at both strategic and operational levels, he has extensive expertise as a European Service Operations Director/Manager in improving customer satisfaction, customer relationship management (CRM) and the effectiveness of customer service delivery units and call centres. Although these skills have mainly been acquired working for IT multinationals, they are readily transferable to other organisations in the private and public sectors.

 

He is regarded as a team player and obtains results by focusing staff on the customer, building co-operation across departmental boundaries, and giving staff clear performance standards to help them achieve measurable, sustainable results. He encourages participation and buy-in from staff by involving them in problem-solving, identifying solutions and taking responsibility for both their personal performance and the performance of the whole team. He has worked with and managed people from many walks of life, nationalities and cultures in both unionised and non-unionised workplaces.

 

He is an effective project and change manager and is credited with many notable achievements including managing a support centre team to increase customer satisfaction from 76% to 83.5%, employee satisfaction from 65% to 76%, empowerment to 85% and revenue by 12% over £3.5 million target.  He also initiated numerous customer satisfaction improvements in a £35 million customer service and call centre operation (24 call centre staff, 150 total), including reducing service readiness time from months to days and achieving a £3 million reduction in inventory.

 

 

Jo - The Commercial Interim

 

With over 20 years experience in Commercial Management within the IT user and supplier markets, Jo has particular expertise in privatisation/regulation, outsourcing and strategic business planning. These areas often encompass significant corporate re-structuring and change management, in which she has substantial experience. She has a strong analytical approach, coupled with an ability to deliver.

 

Jo has recently completed a 15 month assignment as Contracts Director on a major PFI deal. A main development agreement needed to be augmented with individual tailored PFI contracts with 42 user organisations. Despite Central Government reorganization and other pressures within the client's business, this was launched successfully.

 

Previous interim roles include Bid Management for an IT Consultancy/Services company, which was successful. She established a Customer Services Department for major telecoms accreditation body, ensuring it was taking a more customer focused approach within its new competitive market. Many assignments have involved development of business plans, cost benefit analyses and risk assessments. Her career has also had a strong contractual element throughout, with development of standard Terms & Conditions of Sale (and Purchase), Service Level agreements (SLAs), Joint Ventures, Partnerships and Distributors/Re-sellers agreements.

 

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