Linda Rogers (PMP, IIBA, EMBA)

Portfolio Career CIO Trainer/Instructor - Accredited consultant and trainer (PMI PMP, IIBA, Cyber Security) Career and Executive Coach Assignments: Current Clients → • Consultant @ Learning Tree International • Coach @ Speakup • NED Advisor @ Friendship Bench Previous → • PMI PMP trainer - NATO Joint Welfare Centre • C-Suite Panellist - Warwick Business School

International executive team member responsible for leading Life Healthcare Group technology n activities across the International operations.

• Served as the primary interface between Virgin Media O2 and Telefonica head office functions, ensuring alignment of IT solutions with business strategy. • Led monthly and quarterly reviews with senior stakeholders to track project delivery performance and manage IT risks. • Established governance frameworks for demand management, project prioritisation, and execution, enhancing strategic alignment across teams.

• Brought in to deliver global deployment and transition for Programme ITX which was implementing cloud full potential (a global SAP-based move to Cloud), IAM/Global Network Transformation, revamp of End user Services (O365, Zero Incidents, Global service desk) and a new Operating model for BAT Tech future 2020. • Ensured a clear alignment between business strategy, IT Transformation strategy, driving the transition to BAU from strategy to execution • Owned the Global Deployment and Transition agenda, met all KPIs, delivering a new service delivery model for modern, integrated IT function on time/budget • Built and led a global network of highly engaged, highly effective and capable programme, project and change professionals to execute global change/training and transition agenda • Successfully oversaw a two-year global change plan deploying 127 global processes to 69 markets and centres of expertise, including Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) process for the IT organisation design project • Built deep relationships with key senior stakeholders, acting as an influential leader to facilitate conversations and create focus and clarity for virtual working groups • Collaborated with stakeholders to successfully transition ITX capabilities to business as usual • Stood up a deployment and release command centre to ensure we dealt with conflict, hot spot with landing in EMEA, ASPAC and Americas, as there were strategic vs tactical conflicts

• Led a team of 28 Technical Services Managers, Business Analyst and Project Managers in a Target Operating Model transformations (portfolio of over 30 projects), including a business transformation programme to implement a SAP-based ERP solution and new Trade Marketing systems covering 25 markets in West Africa and 22 markets in East & Central Africa. • Responsible for a direct annual OPEX Budget of £23m and Capex of £5.5m, with a portfolio of over 30 projects annually • Formulated and embedded the local technology vision, strategy and road map to ensure growth for the company and leadership for developing and implementing information technology initiatives. • £3.7M savings in IT spend with ensuring budget practices are adhered to, reductions due to local more for less innovations and initiate server rationalisation, • Managed over 21 IT vendors across the 44 countries, leveraged relationships to ensure my “More for less initiative realised the benefits as promised to BAT. • Improving the service delivered to business, achieving 95% on our SLA with the business, achieved homogenity and collaboration beween the business locally and globally by implemeting Webex,VC,TC as well as the right latency. This effort minimised the cost of travel to business and encouraged better communication within the teams • Drove smart technology investments, which significantly reduced infrastructure and maintenance cost. • Sweated the IT assets, driving my “More for Less” initiative negotiating and collaborating with our strategic suppliers to deliver 400% more bandwidth, double redundancy, at 60% less cost. • Created a culture of high performance, managing the IT team for both areas whist supporting 2 different business legal entity executive team and management boards.

• Acting as the Senior Business Analyst in the optimisation of the Global Strategy and Operation Planning process, to ensure we established and embed a process allowing a single version of the truth with standardised S&OP reporting as key driver for competitive edge and business growth. Key • Reviewed working with PWC and signed off the Target Operating Model (TOM) for the function with the BAT business steering group. • Implemented improved functionality to all systems (SAP, BI, APO, Nexus), that support the global planning process, considering new process, RACIs and terms of reference for agreed governance • Prepared executive oversight, risk assessment for review meetings involving Executive Boards for subsidiaries and managing wrap-up procedures. • Led team of up to 20 regional analyst and project managers, preparing project documentation, definition, budget and project/stage plans programme for board approval • Negotiated performance and delivery of work packages with all work-stream leads and key members of business team, scheduling stage control points and assuring compliance • Prepared and delivered effective change management which included promotion of business vision and maintained benefits framework

• I moved into this role to provide the marketing function, IT leadership and management, led 4 Project Delivery Managers. Reported directly to Regional Head of Marketing IT Delivery. Key Achievements include: • Reported directly to regional head of marketing IT, delivered cross markets improvements to systems for trade marketing, fit for purpose for the Africa. • Led implementation of information support systems. Landing Field Order, Management (FOM) and Trade Marketing Execution (TME) tools in various markets • Developed integrated business strategies/plans, which ensure the leveraging of business capability • Established IT delivery as career function of choice – collaborated closely with leadership team across IT