Nick Lodge

Programme Director, CapQuest Group Limited

Location: Guildford, United Kingdom
Industry: Financial Services

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Nick Lodge's Overview

Current

Programme Director at CapQuest Limited

Past

Contract Programme Manager at Xceed Delivery Solutions Limited
Founder at Progress8 Sports Nutrition
Programme Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland

Programme Manager at Edwards
Senior Manager at Accenture

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Southampton University

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Nick Lodge - Programme Director, CapQuest Group Limited

Programme Director with significant experience of governing and delivering large-scale systems implementation, change management and business improvement projects.

• Leads the timely and cost-effective implementation of challenging programmes from mobilisation through to project closure.

• Gains support and commitment from all stakeholders, articulating project plans, scope, objectives and issues to a variety of audiences.

• Manages all stages of the programme lifecycle from requirements definition and business case development through to the design-build-test, training, implementation and benefits realisation phases.

• Uses very strong change management skills to drive and deliver the process, technology, organisational and cultural change agenda essential to all major programmes.

• Communicates and influences at every level, from Board of Directors to multi-site project teams, clients and suppliers.

Programme Director

CapQuest Limited

Financial Services industry

May 2013 – Present (2 months) UK

Programme Director for Columbus Programme, a transformational business change and core systems implementation programme.

Contract Programme Manager

Xceed Delivery Solutions Limited

March 2012 – June 2013 (1 year 4 months)

Specialising in the delivery of small and large-scale process improvement, systems implementation and business change programmes.

Clients have included companies in the food manufacturing, hi-tech manufacturing and employment services industries.

Founder

Progress8 Sports Nutrition

September 2012 – May 2013 (9 months) United Kingdom

Founder of a brand new business supplying innovative and exciting sports nutrition products, serving a fast-growing market and broadening consumer base

Leveraging an advanced programme management skill base to structure and build the company from scratch, encompassing recruitment, new product development, pilot and launch phases, branding, website, social media, sales and marketing, supplier management and more

Led the business as it scaled from the initial launch, building presence through wholesale and internet retail channels.

Programme Manager

Royal Bank of Scotland

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; RBS; Banking industry

August 2011 – February 2012 (7 months) United Kingdom

Interim programme management role on a £13.5M core-systems implementation project within the Operations Investment Change programme

Established required governance and programme management processes and disciplines throughout the team (technical, process, business owners). Defined, approved and communicated project strategy, plans and reporting tools across the wider stakeholder group

Programme Manager

Edwards

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Semiconductors industry

January 2005 – July 2011 (6 years 7 months) United Kingdom

Programme manager for global ERP implementation for planning and manufacturing

Programme manager for Asia SAP & SCP deployments (5 countries)

Senior manager, Information Management (IM) department

Senior Manager

Accenture

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry

November 1996 – December 2004 (8 years 2 months) United Kingdom

Project and programme management specialist working predominantly in the Utilities and Resources industries

Primary focus on delivery of strategic, global ERP implementations for blue-chip clients