Russell Watmore
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Experience
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Crescar
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United Arab Emirates
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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GCC Development Director
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Jun 2020 - Present
Responsible for establishing and developing the Middle East business division of Crescar Partners, a strategic advisory and project delivery company focusing on the Transportation Industry. Responsible for establishing and developing the Middle East business division of Crescar Partners, a strategic advisory and project delivery company focusing on the Transportation Industry.
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SIP Services FZ LLE
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Managing Director
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Jan 2020 - Present
Responsible for establishing and growing SIP Services FZ LLE. A professional consulting, advisory and project management company serving a number of key industry sectors including transport, facilities management and general government outsourcing. Responsible for establishing and growing SIP Services FZ LLE. A professional consulting, advisory and project management company serving a number of key industry sectors including transport, facilities management and general government outsourcing.
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Director, Bid Development
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Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Responsible for development of bidding covering all of Serco Middle East's sectors (Transport, Facilities Services, Aviation & Defence) throughout the GCC. Regional Executive team position (reporting to divisional CEO) responsible for the direction and management of the divisional bid team (including bid directors, managers and support staff) and a number of sales/bid support functions (including pipeline management).
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Head of Bid Management
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Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Responsible for management of divisional bid team covering bids across all of Serco's sectors in the GCC region.
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Bid Director
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Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Bid Director leading major bids within Serco Middle East's portfolio covering all sectors.
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Bid Support Director - Bahrain Bus Bid
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Oct 2013 - May 2014
Responsible for the leadership of the bid team, development of bid solution and response for the Bahrain Bus tender.
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Precision ITS FZCO
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Dubai, UAE
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Managing Director
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Aug 2011 - Jul 2014
Heads the sales and delivery strategy of the business in the UAE and export markets Heads the sales and delivery strategy of the business in the UAE and export markets
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Idis
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Weybridge, UK
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Key Stakeholder Manager
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Feb 2013 - Jul 2013
Working as a bridge between the development team (responsible for delivering full Oracle R12 E-Business platform) and Idis customer/stakeholder community in capturing, interpreting and validating requirements relating to the CRM and E-Commerce modules of the ERP. Also identified and shaped a number of business development opportunities. Working as a bridge between the development team (responsible for delivering full Oracle R12 E-Business platform) and Idis customer/stakeholder community in capturing, interpreting and validating requirements relating to the CRM and E-Commerce modules of the ERP. Also identified and shaped a number of business development opportunities.
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Jobsify US
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Managing Director, Transport and Logistics Business Unit
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May 2010 - Aug 2011
Created the Solutions Delivery business unit within Atlas Telecom and responsible for all Bid and Business Development activity, business change programmes, delivery, P&L, stakeholder relationships, commercial and regulatory control matters. Projects across multiple clients in GCC.
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Consultant Bids Programme Manager
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Sep 2006 - Dec 2010
Managed a portfolio of Solutions and Applications Delivery projects encompassing bidding and delivery of Telecom, IT, Business Transformation, ERP, CRM and Security solutions totalling AED 150m+ across multiple customers in the GCC region.
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BT Group
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Central Government Business and Programme Director
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Apr 2005 - Jun 2006
Developed BT’s Shared Services propositions which incorporated a range of Network and Communications, Customer Focused Application Delivery, Converged Telephony and hosted application solutions across a number of medium-large UK Central Government departments.
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DWP Programme Telecommunications Business and Programme Manager
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Jan 2004 - Apr 2005
Established the Telecom and IT Solutions Business Unit within the BT DWP Accord Programme Lead team of 12 project managers responsible for a portfolio of project work streams across the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (ACCORD) Programme including Core Telephony (Fixed Line) Services, Converged Solutions, CRM, Content Management, Mobile and mobility Solutions and back office integration with legacy and ERP systems.
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DWP Advanced Telephony Programme Manager
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Sep 2001 - Dec 2003
Lead the DWP Advanced Telephony Programme which delivered a five year PFI solution for the construction and transition into service of over 70 contact centres providing a customer driven service to over 1m end users across the DWP estate.Directed the internal strategy and governance of the Programme throughout and lead stakeholder relationships and technical teams throughout. Managed the bid and pre-sales, business transition, business process change management, consultancy, delivery, commercial and regulatory approach throughout the project. Show less
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Education
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University of Sunderland
BA (Hons) 2:1, Business & Computing -
City of Sunderland Bede Centre (6th Form)
A Levels, Business and Computing, Maths, Geography