Ben Groom

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ABOUT BEN GROOM

An experienced leader and consultant with over 20 years in consulting and industry specialising in ERP enabled Business Transformation and Change. Major Credentials:Business Transformation- Leading a project looking at Shared Service feasibility including benefits case and transformation map. Managing the Business Change team across the transformation project portfolio- Managing the Business Transformation workstreams for a new Shared Service Centre generating savings of £4.5m per annum- Reporting to the Director General of Informatics working with Strategic Health Authorities to identify opportunities for IT innovation with targeted £20 billion savings- Managing a Business Readiness workstream rolling out change to over 1.3m consumers- Managing internal change impacting 600 people.Programme Leadership- Programme managing a global Oracle ERP roll-out covering 15 countries and 20 companies with a budget of £60m- Programme managing major process enhancements and additional ERP modules for a Shared Service Centre to drive a further £3m in benefits.IT Delivery Transformation- Managing the IT workstream to design a new, post merger business- Taking disparate, country focused ERP teams and implementing a global organisation incoprorating over 500 Oracle and SAP experts- Setting up and running an Application Architecture team operating across the business and designing a £20m SAP programme- Managing Operations for an SAP Practice with 500 people and £40m pa revenues.Specialties: Common sense and a sense of humour.ERP enabled business transformation.International operations and team management.Business process analysis and design and change management.Board level stakeholder management, facilitation and challenge.