Jon Babb
About Me
Jon is an extensively experienced, transformational Programme Director who operates as a team leader and self-starter. He is equally comfortable leading teams or consulting on significant technology enabled change programmes and has strong experience in multiple industry sectors, domestically and globally. Expertise across financial and operational turnaround, “big 4” supplier negotiation and management, organisational & departmental post-merger integration, moving strategy into action and accelerating and sustaining business benefits, in a technology enabled regulatory and technology context.
Education
Bournemouth University 1992
BA (Hons) Applied Psychology
Work & Experience
Circle K 07/10/2024 - 03/10/2025
Global Programme Manager
Defining and leading the consolidation (platform migration) of multiple Tenancies to one, spanning 12+ with 40,000 users. Responsible for a wide portfolio including: • VDI rationalisation • OCI cloud architecture to deliver enhanced Resiliency & Disaster Recovery (Kubernetes, Container, AI) • Multi D365 tenancy consolidation • Infrastructure Modernisation – Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, workflow automation • 3rd Party delivery accountability (EY, Oracle, Accenture, JDE, SAP)
Methods Business & Digital 01/10/2020 - 01/03/2024
ERP Programme Director
Delivering a combination of Programme Management and Account Management to ensure delivery against agreed outcomes, including portfolio responsibility for 30m+ revenue from major ERP engagements. Contractual, relationship and delivery turnaround of key ERP/CRM clients. D365, Oracle Fusion, SAP Hana, JDE, Unit 4 • Transitioned several accounts and facilitated direct subcontractor relationship where beneficial to the client • Cloud SaaS transition (platform migration), AI preparation & Delivery • Account management, programme management, supplier management, dispute management and exit management
AWS / DXC 01/08/2022 - 03/10/2023
Senior Programme Director
DXC: Delivery responsibility for Lloyds of London Insurance market data migration - delivering the largest single migration to date including CxO engagement, strategic management of migration approach, 3rd parties and resources. • Delivery of enhanced programme disciplines – Programme reporting and engagement • Integration of DevOps, GitOps and Infra as code • Accountability for client relationships and migration success • Wholesale platform migration of date worth circa 10% of UK GDP
London Boroughs of Brent, Lewisham & Southwark 01/04/2019 - 02/07/2020
Head of Projects, Programmes & Budget
Responsible for £20m delivery of services across 3 London Boroughs covering infrastructure, HR, Estates projects. • Managed Cloud & D365 migration programme for all 3 boroughs: budgetary responsibility and accountability • Established project and programme accounting and PMO function
Microsoft 01/15/2018 - 04/26/2019
Cloud Programme Manager
Overall responsibility for Microsoft delivery of transitioning Nottinghamshire to Azure & D365 to enable data centre exit including complex programme delivery with significant penalty/liability clauses embedded within contract negotiated in line with GDPR. • Delivered high value programs in challenging situations blending AGILE & waterfall methodologies • Resolved programme issues and initiated appropriate corrective action, maintaining programme integrity and quality • Achieved D365 cloud migration encompassing SharePoint, email, data, applications and contact centre CRM.
Essex County Council 12/07/2015 - 12/15/2017
Digital Foundations Programme Director
Turnaround (operational & financial) of a £15m IT programme with subsequent closure & establishment (business case through to delivery) of a £30m technology transformation programme involving wholesale data centre transition to the cloud, organisational migration to D365 & delivery of an internal and external facing core CRM platform (Contact Centre) for a 10,000 user estate and a population of 1.5m. • Full programme accountability, covering global supplier management, commercial negotiation, financial control & resource allocation • Delivered strategic ‘iterative business case' to mitigate the risk of delivering obsolete solutions • Developed investible business propositions, enabling ECC to maximise available funding opportunities • Infrastructure modernisation (IaC, DevOps, GitOps), Master Data Management & Data Lake