About Sam
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- Full-Time Service: Day rate
English
Native or bilingual
Experience
- Lloyds BankProduct OwnerApril 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)Manchester, United Kingdom(Microsoft Suite / M365 / SharePoint)
- Led the end-to-end delivery of Interchange 2.0, an enterprise-scale intranet platform serving 65,000 global colleagues, directly driving digital workplace modernisation.
- Directed the product vision and road-map, successfully aligning complex technical delivery with the organisation’s long-term digital transformation strategy.
- Increased operational efficiency by introducing seamless dashboard integration's with ServiceNow, SAP, Eptura and Viva Learning, enabling colleagues to execute core tasks directly via SPFx adaptive cards.
- Optimised cross-functional delivery by managing multi-platform dependencies and navigating rigorous security/compliance frameworks, effectively eliminating bottlenecks for 3rd Parties, Engineering, Developers, and QA squads.
- Supported large-scale organisational integration of an acquired entity via a hub-and-spoke multi-tenant model.
- Lloyds BankSenior Delivery LeadJanuary 2024 - March 2025 (1 year and 2 months)Halifax, United Kingdom
- Led work streams for the migration of 65,000 banking colleagues from SAP to Workday payroll, owning end-to-end program delivery from concept through implementation.
- 57 complex data and platform integration's and Level-4 processes, delivering 158/192 (82% success versus 75% target) automation enhancements to streamline payroll processing.
- Optimised and reduced 65 core Level-4 business processes down to 52 (20% reduction). Streamlined and reduced 500 operational procedures down to 430 (14% reduction).
- Led comprehensive change management activities, driving high organisational readiness and user adoption through targeted training, strategic stakeholder engagement, and enterprise-wide communications.
- Managed cross-functional work streams across multiple business units, ensuring seamless alignment between technical payroll requirements and operational workflows.
- NHS PSSenior Delivery LeadPUBLIC SECTORFebruary 2021 - December 2023 (2 years and 10 months)Leeds, UK
- Led the rapid end-to-end development of mobile UX/UI enhancements for the national NHS bed capacity platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, guiding the project from user-tested prototype to full-scale national deployment.
- This resulted in high-impact operational efficiencies, streamlining front-line data capture and reducing administrative burden by an estimated ~72 hours per week across UK paramedic services, directly enabling faster, data-driven patient routing decisions during peak crisis periods. In addition a 70% increase in mobile device usage was recorded over the next 3 months adding to successful digital transformation from legacy PC formats.
- Spearheaded the integration of critical pharmacy datasets into national NHS platforms, successfully on-boarding two strategic suppliers to enhance GP clinical record accuracy and system-wide data interoperability.
- Orchestrated large-scale clinical data migrations, overseeing the mapping, cleansing, and validation of high-volume datasets to ensure secure, reliable information exchange across the NHS ecosystem.
- Led the cloud transformation of GP Data Collector processes, migrating on-premises infrastructure servers to AWS Cloud to significantly improve system scalability, security, and operational reliability - reducing operational costs by ~60% annually. Led decommissioning of legacy server hardware.
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Education
- BScLeeds Metropolitan University2009BSc
- A-LevelsLawrence Sherif Grammar2005A-Levels