Tom Manning

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ABOUT TOM MANNING

Strategic PMO Leader playing a key role in PMO start up, maturity growth, Business Planning and Transformation. Successful creator of frameworks (Waterfall and Agile) and implementation of PMO services assuring the delivery of large-scale complex IT Portfolio’s. Proven ability to lead cross functional teams successfully implementing impactful projects to drive business objectives in dynamic growing organisations. Able to build relationships, influencing senior stakeholders and develop partnerships with suppliers; providing clear direction. Extensive knowledge of the Telecoms industry establishing PMO teams, recruiting coaching and developing others to perform at their best in order to continuously improve delivery capability.CAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Multiple implementations and transformations of project delivery frameworks ensuring organisational visibility and governance of project delivery in the most efficient way in supporting great customer outcomes.• Led global transformation to Agile including concepts, language, best practice, methodology design and agile culture development. • Led the procurement, implementation and roll out of a cloud based PPM tool to add automation to PMO processes saving £300k through greater efficiencies in year 1.• Significantly increased the accuracy of the TalkTalk’s Business Planning process and reduced the process length by two months through automation.• Created a new centralised PMO team (15 heads) taking them from a maturity of 0 to 3 (P3M3) in 3 years• Led revenue ‘War Room’ managing global escalations and resource prioritisation process across 6 regions leading to revenue acceleration of $12m for the year.• Developed forecasting and roadmap capabilities globally resulting in greater efficiencies in utilisation and reduced bench time for staff. Led to a reduction in contractor costs of c$8m over 18 months