Jeremy Ehlers
IT Director (UK) at Alliance Healthcare in the UK- Claim this Profile
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Ryan Thomson
Jeremy was instrumental in changing the business approach to IT. He was passionate, supportive, driven and as a result successfully led change to a culture full of constrains. This in turn enabled the business to lay strong foundations for a better, more agile way of thinking and approaching IT strategy.
Rob Hamblett
Jeremy is a rarity in the IT world - a naturally self-aware leader with a clear focus on people and customers who's able to find the right technology to meet business needs. He gets to know his people and is able to put himself in the customer's shoes because he invests time visiting operational sites, which means he's excellent at communicating his vision and quickly clears any blockers to success. An excellent asset to any senior leadership team, Jeremy's positive attitude and aspirations for the IT function are inspiring.
Ryan Thomson
Jeremy was instrumental in changing the business approach to IT. He was passionate, supportive, driven and as a result successfully led change to a culture full of constrains. This in turn enabled the business to lay strong foundations for a better, more agile way of thinking and approaching IT strategy.
Rob Hamblett
Jeremy is a rarity in the IT world - a naturally self-aware leader with a clear focus on people and customers who's able to find the right technology to meet business needs. He gets to know his people and is able to put himself in the customer's shoes because he invests time visiting operational sites, which means he's excellent at communicating his vision and quickly clears any blockers to success. An excellent asset to any senior leadership team, Jeremy's positive attitude and aspirations for the IT function are inspiring.
Ryan Thomson
Jeremy was instrumental in changing the business approach to IT. He was passionate, supportive, driven and as a result successfully led change to a culture full of constrains. This in turn enabled the business to lay strong foundations for a better, more agile way of thinking and approaching IT strategy.
Rob Hamblett
Jeremy is a rarity in the IT world - a naturally self-aware leader with a clear focus on people and customers who's able to find the right technology to meet business needs. He gets to know his people and is able to put himself in the customer's shoes because he invests time visiting operational sites, which means he's excellent at communicating his vision and quickly clears any blockers to success. An excellent asset to any senior leadership team, Jeremy's positive attitude and aspirations for the IT function are inspiring.
Ryan Thomson
Jeremy was instrumental in changing the business approach to IT. He was passionate, supportive, driven and as a result successfully led change to a culture full of constrains. This in turn enabled the business to lay strong foundations for a better, more agile way of thinking and approaching IT strategy.
Rob Hamblett
Jeremy is a rarity in the IT world - a naturally self-aware leader with a clear focus on people and customers who's able to find the right technology to meet business needs. He gets to know his people and is able to put himself in the customer's shoes because he invests time visiting operational sites, which means he's excellent at communicating his vision and quickly clears any blockers to success. An excellent asset to any senior leadership team, Jeremy's positive attitude and aspirations for the IT function are inspiring.
Experience
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Alliance Healthcare in the UK
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United Kingdom
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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IT Director (UK)
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Apr 2021 - Present
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Unite Students
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United Kingdom
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Real Estate
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700 & Above Employee
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Chief Information Officer
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Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Delivering market-leading capabilities to our digital room booking platform providing greater flexibility to our customers and business aimed at increasingly occupancy utilisation helping drive a 7% increase in margin. Leading the Technology integration of a £1.2b acquisition scaling our business to 72,000 rooms enabling £12m annualised saving while at the same time, ensuring the business had a remote technology service that brought zero downtime during lockdown. Designing and executing a new Digital roadmap achieved through adopting a more business-aligned approach for the IT function leveraging a cloud-first technology strategy transitioning away from a highly complex legacy set of systems and moving to a more platform-based approach.
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Mitie
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United Kingdom
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Facilities Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Group Technology Transformation Director
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Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Leading the overall IT Transformation engagement for a £19m efficiency programme for our Engineering division liaising with the rest of the businesses and functions to ensure the technology needs are fully understood and that the various interdependencies across multiple programmes of change are optimised.
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Group IT Director
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Oct 2013 - Feb 2017
Responsibilities for upwards of 120+ people directly and 170+ people indirectly with an annual budget in excess of £34m with full P&L responsibility.Led a Group wide IT review which encompassed the redesigning of the overall IT Operating Model, increased Outsourcing of commodity IT services and a simplified Sourcing Strategy enabling a 10% reduction in IT spend, critical for an organisation with low margins.In parallel, led the development of the overall IT strategy and service provision supporting 15,000 system users and providing processes to support the 60,000 employees.Swift progression from MIS Manager to IT Director within 4 years.Accountable for developing Mitie’s Infrastructure technology strategy and then executing under the project title, Project Evolve, IT’s own Infrastructure transformation encompassing the implementation of O365 Email, wholesale data centre migration and implementation of O365 SharePoint.Collectively, this delivers a new agile technology landscape resulting in significant cost avoidance (min £1.5m) and provides the foundations enabling Mitie to deliver several efficiency improvement initiatives whilst enabling greater time for our key staff to spend with our clients.
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Group Head of Business Solutions & MIS
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Jul 2012 - Oct 2013
At the request of the CEO, and in addition to continuing to run the Group MIS team, I took responsibility of Mitie's Group Business Applications function.This additional responsibility included the management, development and support of all Back-Office systems as well as core front-line Operational platforms.Amongst the 70 or so applications, special attention and focus was given to our most critical platforms, SAP, IBM's Maximo and a bespoke Client facing Helpdesk.The role included managing demand and supply aspects of the function, ensuring technical product roadmaps and the development of specific SME's for all core products.I was accountable for the strategic outsourcing of the SAP service, leading the RFP selection process and contractual commercial discussions. The scope included the overall running and core development of SAP in line with the product roadmap and growth strategies.Thus, there was an increase in service quality and availability which saw a remarkable 60% reduction in outages and disruption thereby providing the stability and scalability required to enable Mitie to continue the SAP implementation across the business
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Group MIS Manager
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Apr 2010 - Jul 2012
Promoted to Group, tasked with creating a commercial proposition that would become a strategic market differentiator enabling our largest clients to understand the value of Mitie's services and to offer a MI platform that our client's could exploit also. As product owner, I led all activities from initial designs and concepts, development through to product launch, leading marketing and selling activities supporting Mitie's strategic bid teams.MiWorld was launched to the market 8 months after its' conception.Founder / creator of MiWorld, Mitie's strategic Management Information platform enabling smarter decisions by providing the exact information required to support the client's strategy.Developed a revenue stream worth some £500k within its' first 12months and still to this day is Mitie's market differentiator.Find out more about MiWorld - https://www.mitie.com/innovation/miworld
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Head of IT
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May 2006 - Apr 2010
Development of SUMIT, an intelligent solution used to track and help reduce contract margin erosion from point of sale through life of the contract. Enabled the MD to understand overall profitability, work in progress (yet to be billed) and full P&L impact. The solution provided a detailed tracker of revenue and costs with forecasting capabilities to help prioritise focus to key contracts.It became the central solution at all Operational and Board meetings delivering a full set of operational MI / KPI's.
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Persimmon Homes
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United Kingdom
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Construction
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700 & Above Employee
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Operations Manager
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1993 - 2006
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