Laurie Ericson

Head of Strategic Portfolio @Selfridges

Amersham, GB
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WORK HISTORY

May 2021 — Present

Head of Strategic Portfolio @Selfridges

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Designed, implemented and ran portfolio governance across technology function encompassing in-house engineering teams and third party suppliers • Drove alignment on lightweight governance model, in collaboration with technology and product leadership as part of agile tech transformation • Introduced processes and tooling for governance across multiple delivery methodologies, from classic waterfall programmes through to agile, iterative delivery • Line managed 5 team members. Two began manager apprenticeships during my leadership • Presented monthly updates to the exec team on the tech portfolio, highlighting and driving decisions and risks and celebrating outcomes achieved • Collated and presented complex cross-portfolio dependencies to operating exec members, driving priority decisions to support critical paths • Drove monthly cross-portfolio review to support technology and product leadership in unblocking delivery flow and prioritising highest value outcomes • Programme directed website replatform programme. Led transformation within programme from waterfall delivery to iterative, value-led agile delivery patterns.

EDUCATION

2000 — 2003

Henley Business School

MBA, Project Management

1989 — 1992

Brandon University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Business Administration

SKILLS

Business TransformationSoftware Project ManagementProject DeliveryBusiness IntegrationMulti-Channel RetailPrince2Change ManagementBusiness ProcessProject ManagementManagementRetailIntegrationProject PlanningE-CommerceStakeholder ManagementProgramme DeliveryProgram Management

ABOUT LAURIE ERICSON

With over 20 years of experience in the retail industry, I am a seasoned agile delivery…

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