Rob Hart

Transformation Director @ SSE plc

About

Senior technology and transformation leader with 20+ years’ experience delivering complex change and IT operations across energy, retail, engineering and real estate, partnering closely with C‑suite and business leaders. Known for translating business strategy into executable technology roadmaps and programmes, leading multi‑disciplinary teams, and modernising core platforms while keeping services stable and secure. Career highlights include: shaping and delivering digital transformation portfolios at BP and TCE; leading multi million pound programmes to modernise B2B and B2C, retail and customer platforms up to $50m; and embedding governance, service management and change practices that improve reliability, cost efficiency and time‑to‑value including 75 % reduction in CRE leasing time; introducing new technology and business model innovation creating new multi million pound lines of business. Strengths span enterprise IT strategy, portfolio and programme leadership, IT operations, vendor and sourcing management, innovation scouting scanning and experimentation and building high‑performing geographically dispersed teams. Comfortable operating at board and executive level, with a style that is pragmatic, people‑centred and outcome‑focused rather than deeply technical – ensuring technology decisions are grounded in business value, risk and customer impact. Open to senior roles such as IT Director, Head of Delivery, Digital Transformation Director or Portfolio Director within corporates seeking to modernise their technology landscape and ways of working. Core competencies: • IT & digital transformation strategy • Portfolio, programme & change leadership • IT delivery, governance & operating models • Service management, ITIL & operational excellence • Stakeholder, vendor & partner management • Global team leadership and people development • Business case development, benefits realisation & cost optimisation

Country

United Kingdom

City

Greater Reading Area

Industry

Real Estate

Skill

Procurement, Chemical Engineering, Budget Management, Process Engineering, Product Management, Enterprise IT Strategy, IT Portfolio Management, CIO, IT Operations Management, Retail Technology, Business Continuity Planning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Operating Models, organisation design, Business Transformation, Change Management, Business Process, IT Management, IT Strategy, Management

Experience

Transformation Director

SSE plc

2026-3 - Present · 7 mos

Reading

Transformation Director | Delivery Director | VP IT | Technology Innovation

RJH Transformation

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Leading IT and Digital Transformation across large scale corporate clients.

Head of Product & Delivery

The Crown Estate

2021-12 - 2025-1 · 3 yrs 2 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivered a portfolio of B2B and B2C digital products and projects that drove efficiency and growth opportunities across The Crown Estate's commercial real estate, rural, and offshore assets as well as group functions.

IT Director - Digital Platform Delivery

2020-7 - 2021-7 · 1 yr 1 mo

London, England, United Kingdom

Developed and deployed a large scale B2B digital platform to support bp’s multi billion dollar fleet and electrification businesses.

IT Director - Digital Transformation

2018-1 - 2020-7 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Sunbury

Delivered the transformation of BP's IT department globally including operating model design and implementation covering Agile, DevOps, and the leveraging of newer technologies such as cloud, automation, platforms and big data to support the broader digitisation of BP.

Head of Digital, Advanced Mobility Unit

2016-8 - 2018-1 · 1 yr 6 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Establishing a new business unit with responsibility for the scouting and scanning of start-up technologies and businesses to support bp’s move to lower carbon business models, this included supporting venture investment deal flow and execution as well as establishing and running bp’s first mobility start-up accelerator.

Senior IT Leader (Various)

2006-4 - 2016-8 · 10 yrs 5 mos

London, United Kingdom

A number of roles in the US and UK including: running IT operations for bp’s US convenience retail business; systems operation for Castrol globally; Downstream IT operating model and outsourcing delivery; Heading up BP’s group wide major IT incident & problem management function; and the execution of retail POS and head office systems globally.

Independent Consultant

Azantis Ltd

2004-4 - 2006-3 · 2 yrs

London, United Kingdom

BP: IT strategy development and workstream delivery focusing on innovation and IT budgeting and financial process re-engineering (Global)

Management Consultant - IT Strategy and Business transformation

PA Consulting

2000-11 - 2004-5 · 3 yrs 7 mos

BP: Organisation design and implementation (Global) Defra: Established and ran the PMO to outsource Defra’s IT and business change capability and design of the operating model and enduring organisation (UK) Defra: Establishing and running the PMO for a major IT enabled change programme (UK) Barclays: Establishing a common project methodology and execution capability for the e-business division (UK) RBS: Post merger integration focusing on the migration of wealth products from NatWest platforms to RBS (Channel Islands) Metropolitan Police Service: Developing a corporate strategy and aligning existing programmes of change to deliver against the strategy (UK)

Project Engineer

Air Products

1996-9 - 2000-11 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Business Development: Managing sales of equipment and services to existing customers (EMEA) Project Engineer: Procuring, constructing, and commissioning industrial gas plants (Europe) Chemical Engineer: Designing and operating industrial gas plants (Europe)