Bio

A Senior Executive with a proven track record of delivering value and driving transformational change at CxO level with excellent commercial and partner management skills. A highly motivated, target driven professional with proven leadership in providing clear and concise vision, strategy and in the end-to-end delivery of solutions and services, supporting and delivering real value to the business. Stephen brings vision, commitment, energy and enthusiasm and always strives to drive change across the organisation. Stephen has developed many senior relationships across the industry and has extensive experience of influencing and collaborating across complex organisations and in managing delivery across a multi-vendor/onshore/offshore environment through outsourcing and optimising offshore capabilities. Stephen can identify and articulate a longer term IT strategy and in parallel manage short term deliveries against this strategic context to maximise the effect of expenditure. His focus on the management of short term objectives against the longer term strategy drives a more effective relationship between Technology and other business functions. He can articulate the Technology game plan in a way that is both meaningful to the business and gains the enterprise level support necessary to underpin sustainable change. Specialties: • Create, lead and manage diverse teams to achieve complex and demanding targets in both short and longer time frames. • Manage transformational change initiatives to deliver real value to an organisation. • Operate at CXO level to realise business strategy and objectives. • Develop partner management to deliver the vision, not just the contract