1. Rebecca Taylor
Wiltshire
+971 561 770686
rebecca.taylor71@yahoo.com
http://ae.linkedin.com/pub/rebecca-taylor/15/90a/68/
OBJECTIVE
To be placed within an energetic environment in a role that allows me to optimise and further develop the use of my Program and Project
Management experience and fully utilise my problem solving skills.
PROFILE
Ten years of experience in project management with accreditation at Practitioner level for PRINCE2, MSP AND M_o_R . Passionate about
ensuring benefits are aligned and continue to be with group level strategic goals. Skilled at building and managing high performance project
teams and employees to achieve personal and professional objectives. A strong understanding and recognition of the importance of
adoption leading to cultural change within an organization if benefits realization is to be fully achieved.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Programme Managed Supply Chain, Procurement and Business Development Transformation
• Project Managed the planning and implementation of Group Business Management tool
• Set up and design of Group Centre of Excellence
• Project Managed the successful Design, Construction and Operation of $20m + Water Bottling Plant
• Design of Group Project Management Methodology including full governance and supporting documentation
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Jul 2015 – present – New Schools Team and Application Project Manager
GEMS Education
GEMS are a global education provider, designing, building and operating over 170 private schools worldwide.
Pre Operations Project Manager
End to End project management applied to opening new schools. Creation of the full suite of project initiation
documentation including but not limited to schedules, plans, risk register, roles and responsibilities and quality
description.
Application/Bid Project Manager
Responsible for the end to end application/bid process for opening new schools. Managing Brand Leaders technical
input, and ensuring commercial sections are strategically aligned with the business case. Developing strong
relationships with local authorities to gain a full understanding of compliance requirements for applications.
Jun 2010 – Jun 2015 - Excellence Programme Manager (UAE)
SUPREME Group
Supreme is a leading provider of Logistics Solutions worldwide. Bringing a wide range of services to Military and
Commercial Customers including Logistics, Warehousing, Construction, Catering, Fuel supply and Manufacturing
facilities.
Excellence Office - Risk Management and Project Management Methodologies Jan 2013-ongoing
Created company specific PM methodology used to deliver cross-function projects ensuring strategic alignment with
vision. This methodology was based on PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R but tailored to the company’s operating
procedures, core competencies and staff. Resulting in successful embedding of governance and a growing network
of Superusers.
Design and implementation of Group wide Transformational Program:
Business Excellence Programme Manager, April 2014 - ongoing
As Programme Manager was responsible for complete design, planning and implementation of a three tranche
programme that saw the mapping of ‘as is’ processes, the evaluation and reengineering of these processes to create
best practice ‘to be’ processes ending with the implementation of supporting automation solutions and initiatives to
improve maturity of Finance, Supply Chain and Business Development practices and realise bottom line benefits to
the business.
Implementation of Group wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System:
Business Excellence Programme Manager, June 2013 – April 2014
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2. Project Manager for this $2.5m investment that will allow the business to implement a single ERP platform.
Responsibilities included: full planning and control, establishing an extensive communication plans, clarification of the
benefits, ensuring early stakeholder engagement, creation of strong internal and external relationships and
implementation of a strong risk management methodology.
Fuels Loss Prevention Programme April 2012–ongoing
Programme Manager for this $5m global project, which involved the identification, recommendation and
implementation of new loss prevention technologies for the Fuels Division. Key responsibilities included establishing
a PM methodology where none existed, establishing a loss prevention committee and setting responsibilities and
tasks and embedding the project into a Continuous Improvement Programme which has realized savings to date
excess of $30million.
Design, Build and Operation of Water Bottling Plant, Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan Jan 2010 – April 2011
Project Manager for this $33m project that required the sourcing, purchase and logistic arrangement for cutting edge
technology to support Operations in Afghanistan. Timeframes were extremely limited and the operating environment
was remote, hostile and expeditionary in nature. Key responsibilities included: extensive external and internal
stakeholder engagement, establishing steering groups to identify risk and subsequent mitigation measures and the
creation of industry aligned job descriptions that drove recruitment of specialised staff and presented the customer
with an industry leading, fully functional facility that produces up to 3,000,000 bottle of water a day.
Jul 2009 – Jun 2010 – Project Planning Manager (UAE)
Executive Solutions
Executive Solutions is a boutique recruitment business headquartered in Dubai, serving government, and private
business sectors across the Middle East and Africa
Key Achievements
Project Managed the UAE Nationals Recruitment Team, led activities including project planning, screening,
interviewing, selecting and organizing assessment centers for a prestigious and high-profile Emiratisation
programme.
Principal point of contact for all planning and management within ES for Career Fairs and conferences across the
UAE.
Chief relationship manager recognised as having established working relationships with all Higher Colleges of
Education in the UAE.
Business lead for the strategy development of Emiratisation.
Sept 2000 – Jun 2009 - British Armed Forces
Change Management Consultant – Military Recreational Facility (UK)
Working directly to a board of trustees, developed and supervised the implementation of a phased business plan to
modernize a failing and antiquated establishment. Delivered staff restructuring, implemented HSE guidelines,
established quality and customer care guidelines to achieve lasting business benefits.
Division Manager – Military Equestrian Centre (Germany )
Headhunted to lead a major change implementation programme involving personnel and infrastructure
redevelopment whilst ensuring no impact of productivity and service provision. Developed and presented
comprehensive business and strategic plans and subsequently led staff to implement these successful plans in the
new Centre.
Community Liaison Manager (Germany)
Designed and implemented a partnership scheme, reporting to Board Chairman level (Brigadier) that provided an
interface between the military and local community. Ensuring issues for members of a 10,000 strong civilian and
military community we captured and managed. Tasks included community spokesperson, event manager and liaison
officer. An example of a ‘solution’ I managed was a project for a major social initiative for housing and social welfare
performance improvement for a 10,000 strong military and civilian community.
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3. SKILLS
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Office
Project Place
Microsoft Visio
Midaxo M&A tool
Microsoft Axapta
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
PRINCE2 Practitioner
MSP Practitioner
M_o_R Practiioner
HOBBIES
Psychology and horse riding
REFERENCES
References available on request.
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4. Evidence of Experience
Scoping, Planning and Implementation of Corporate Performance management Tool (Tagetik) – Group –
2014/2015
Acting as Project Manager for this $1m project. Developing the scope to ensure it is aligned with business and external
mandatory requirements fully meeting the needs of our internal customers.
Delivering a full investment proposal including submissions by third party providers and estimated costs to gain approval
from the Executive Committee.
Carry out all project initiation activities in line with Group methodology to ensure successful delivery of end product and
ability to realize benefits fully.
Design and Implementation of Group Transformational Program – Group – 2014/2015/2016
Fully scope requirements based on mandate. Program Manage planning for a suite of activities that would see the re-
engineering and therefore transformation of the business in three phases.
Phase one – mapping of current ‘as is’ processes.
Phase two – engagement of Price Waterhouse Coopers with mapping of world class ‘to be’ processes and Microsoft
centre of excellence team to design solutions blueprint.
Phase three – implementation of suite of projects to achieve optimized performance levels by embedding ‘to be’
processes through automation enhancements and training.
Implementation of Group Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system – Global – 2014
Acted as project manager for this $2.5m investment that would allow the business to implement an ERP platform enabling
the future optimization of a single platform.
Full planning including extensive communication plans to drive understanding of the benefits and requirements needed
from the business and reducing IT involvement outside of their remit.
Early stakeholder engagement and creation of strong internal and external relationships to encourage and ensure
success. Challenges included bridging the gap between technical and non technical team members and required careful
leadership, management and team building strategy.
Identification and engagement of external consultancy resource as required to mitigate identified delay risks.
Strong risk management method embedded in project team to ensure risks were identified and managed before they
became issues.
Successfully implementing this ERP has provided access to a suite of ‘bolt ons’ applications that will allow us to build
extensive improvements into our data management and analysis moving forward.
Risk Management and Project Management Methodologies – 2013 ongoing – Global reach
To assist in the delivery of projects across the Group I developed materials that would allow managers and supervisors to
embed the project management methodology based on MSP and PRINCE2 practices.
In addition Risk management methodologies are currently following the same route using some key templates I developed
following qualifying as an M_o_R Practitioner.
Fuels Loss Prevention Programme - 2012 ongoing– Global reach
Identifying, recommending and implementing new loss prevention technologies for our Fuels Division. This was a
customer requirement as well as part of our internal continuous improvement program.
Various technologies were considered through internal and external consulting resulting in a Group commitment of $5
over a number of projects.
The projects themselves then required implementation of the PM methodology to ensure full benefits could be realized.
A loss prevention committee was established with full governance.
Design, Build and Operation of Water Bottling Plant – 2010 – Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan
This project was the first of its kind for Supreme and was to design, build and run a state of the art water bottling facility on
Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan. This was a 26million Euro project that required the sourcing, purchase and logistic
arrangement for the best technology in existence. Supreme had 120 days to complete this project, from design to ‘go
live’.
There was extensive external and internal stakeholder engagement required due to the nature of the site. This included
setting up steering groups that could identify any potential risk and identify mitigation measures.
The site for the build had to be moved three times due to changing security situation.
In addition I was responsible for ensuring the creation of industry aligned job descriptions that would allow us to recruit
specialised staff who were prepared to work in such an austere environment.
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