Neil Pearce

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ABOUT NEIL PEARCE

Innovative and customer centric Executive Board Member CIO / CDO / CTO / IT Director with a track record of directing successful digital business transformation within large global organisations. Experienced across sectors including: Energy (Oil & Gas), Retail, Construction, Online/Digital, Technology, B2B/B2C, Omni-Channel, and Mobile Telecoms. An established leader, business partner and strategist who collaborates with executives across a business to use digital technology to deliver simplification, and transformation to enhance profits, and customer experience. Energetic and passionate strategic-level transformation / programme management experience. Led teams in excess of 650 IT professionals (1500+ 3​rd Party) and budget responsibility of £300M+. Known for recruiting, developing and retaining top talent, acting as director, mentor and coach. Specialities- Business partnership collaborating with other senior executives using technology to deliver simplification/transformation to enhance profits, and customer experience- IT Leadership, talent recruitment,coaching and mentoring- Customer insight, CRM, business intelligence and big data- Change management, strategy definition and delivery- IT Operations Service Delivery, continual improvement using Lean Six Sigma methods- Vendor/Partner management and contract negotiations- Multi-Channel environments, web platforms including mobile- Software Engineering Practice, BDD/TDD, DevOps, Automation, Agile, Scrum, Serverless- Digital Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AR/VR, Big Data, Analytics, Blockchain, Social Media- IT Architecture, Infrastructure and innovative Cloud solutions (IaaS, SaaS, FaaS)