Description

As an award winning IT Consultant, Digital Transformation Programme Director and Programme Manager, Ivan specialises in bridging the gap between strategic business needs and IT solutions.

Ivan Snell is a highly experienced practitioner in:

Agile at Scale Digital Transformation
SAP ERP / Business Intelligence (BI)
IT & Business Programme / Project Management
IT / Telecoms Strategy Creation and Network Services Procurement

Ivan has over thirty years experience in successfully architecting and delivering complex IT change for major organisations in the FMCG, Government, Energy and Telecoms sectors. Ivan's delivery of the largest ever SAP BPC implementation for a global giant in the gas industry won a SAP Silver Quality and the project was selected as finalist in the BSC / Computing UK IT Industry Programme Excellence awards 2012. In 2014 Ivan was nominated for the Interim Manager of the Year Award 2014, sponsored by Boyden Interim Management.

Ivan has significant expertise in IT strategy, technological innovation, programme management, business and technical architectures and management information. Qualified in the PRINCE2 method and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP). Ivan is a member of the UK Institute of Directors (MIoD). He is an International Project Management Association (IPMA) Level 5, certified Programme Director and certified SAFe 6 Agilist.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Cambridge (up to 50km)

Danone
Global Smart Planning Programme Manager
November 2023 - March 2025 (1 year and 4 months)
Paris, France
Global programme delivery responsibility for a strategic business critical demand and supply planning global programme.
SUSE
Interim Director of Programme Delivery, Infrastructure Transformation
May 2023 - June 2023 (1 month)
Staines-Upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom
Successfully undertook a programme review, worked very closely with the existing team of infrastructure and network engineers to introduce agile metrics, agile project planning, remediate the absence of any end to end testing capability and introduce basic programme governance, controls and reporting to improve the programme's overall delivery predictability Achieved the freezing of critical production services requirements, appointment of a testing manager, identified new project completion date. Contract not renewed when SUSE CIO left SUSE in June 2023
Senior Technical FPN&A
Programme Manager
October 2022 - May 2023 (7 months)
London, UK
Recruited by the SUSE CIO to initiate and lead a strategic programme to fully replace SUSE's core FP&A Cloud Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) application, Anaplan, with an alternative solution.
Successfully led a small team to confirm the solution viability of alternative 'like for like' Cloud xP&A and 'best of suite' Cloud ERP offerings (e.g. SAP S4/ HANA & Analytics Cloud) but proved out that the cost of change far exceeded any likely business benefit and closed the programme