Ella Cooper Phillips

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ABOUT ELLA COOPER PHILLIPS

A highly experienced and results driven Project Manager with over 18 years of success delivering complex business transformation and technology projects within large scale enterprise environments, with a strong track record of delivering on time and within budget. Proven expertise in managing the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to deployment, leading cross functional project teams, using both Agile and Waterfall and hybrid methodologies. Certified SAFe Agilist, Lean Six Sigma, PRINCE2, APMG and SC cleared.Key skills*Expert in strategic planning, directing and controlling multiple large complex and small projects simultaneously, ensuring delivery of innovative tech solutions contributing to measurable business benefits aligned to organisational goals.*Proven ability to lead and mobilise large cross-functional teams, including external partners, across 5+ time zones, to deliver multi million pound projects, budget and scope.*Consistently rated by cross functional project teams as an exceptional leader; recognised for building high performing, motivated teams and a strong delivery culture.*Proactive leader and skilled problem-solver, adept at anticipating risks, resolving conflicts, reducing escalations and removing blockers to ensure smooth and timely delivery of complex projects.*Strong organisational and time management skills, budget ownership, tracking and reporting on multi million pound budgets with a low variance, overseeing complex interdependencies across concurrent workstreams in high pressure, deadline driven environments.*High competence in Salesforce, Smartsheet, Monday.com, JIRA, DevOps and MS Project leveraging these tools to increase resource utilisation and ensure on budget projectdelivery.*Strong stakeholder management experience at all levels up to C-suite, led steering committee meetings and maintained high stakeholder satisfaction through transparent communication.