Simon Holmes

Trusted human-centric technical leader and published technical author with 20+ years driving innovation through strategic vision, problem-solving, building collaborative relationships, and cultivating high-performing teams. Proven abilities in communicating complex concepts to broad audiences coupled with a unique blend of technical and business acumen.

Co-Founder and Consultant

Is your engineering team not running the way you want it to? Chances are it's not a technical issue or a skills gap. Chances are, it's more complex - it's human.

We partner with people who believe what we believe, namely that:
1) Software engineering is a deeply human endeavour
2) Software delivery and organisational performance are predicted by the underlying engineering culture

Alongside consultancy, change management, and interim management two of our most popular services are:

1) Engineering Culture Index
Our Engineering Culture Index provides a way to measure your engineering culture, highlighting the strengths of the team and the issues holding you back.

2) Team Dependencies Matrix
Identify the hidden bottlenecks and dependencies that are slowing your team town.

For both of these we help you with the root cause analysis and corrective actions. They are often combined together into a complete actionable audit.

Insulet Corporation

Senior Salesforce Functional Analyst

Giveclarity.org Ltd

Senior Project Manager (Salesforce)

Veeva Systems

Global CSM for 2 Veeva Customers and EU CSM for a third.
•	Trusted technical advisor working with stakeholders at operational and strategic levels to understand the strategic direction and current challenges.  
•	Identify and propose usage of new features, or re-launch of existing features as necessary.
•	Create and Deliver monthly release education of new features and deep dive sessions on new or existing features for the customer stakeholders and global user community in some cases.  
•	Provide data and insights on feature adoption to ensure the customers are maximising value from their investment and identify opportunities for best practice learning.
 •	Experience in Human Pharma, Animal Health and Rare Diseases.

EU CSM SME for Lightning UI education.  
Using my Salesforce Certified Professional background, I create and deliver education resources for both Internal and Customer use. 
Eg, Global Education Webinars and Education Decks focussing on showing how customers can leverage Lightning record pages, app development and reports and dashboards and live Q&A sessions.

Customer Success Manager

Sage

Senior Business Analyst / Salesforce Consultant working with stakeholders at all levels of the business to deliver efficient and high business value changes in Salesforce CRM.  Providing business analysis, consultancy, solution design and implementation directly in Salesforce or by using 3rd party managed packages.

Senior Business Analyst  / Salesforce Consultant

Boehringer Ingelheim

•	Define, analyse and refine business requirements for new IT Functionality within existing systems or requests for new IT capabilities.
•	Produce business case for change and document the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes in order to establish if there is already an existing tool globally to meet the requirement.
•	Negotiate and champion UK requests for change with global IT team to deliver depending on required capability stream.
•	Work as liaison between local business lead and global IT to deliver and embed the requested change. 40%

UK/ Global BA for Human Pharma / Animal Health                                                    

•	European SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Veeva (CRM system based on salesforce.com)
•	Consult with country focussed business leads to perform Technical Analysis of their demands for change to Veeva. (a CRM application built on Salesforce.com).
•	Articulate and champion the business demand within the technical change team and look for global harmonisation opportunities and architectural fit.
•	Design and deliver configuration changes to global Veeva and salesforce.com as part of 4 person (internal IT staff) global team.
•	Manage the demand through the release process and deliver weekly releases of high value CRM changes within an agile /devOps framework.
•	Partner with Veeva External consultants for release migration and knowledge sharing.
•	Recent changes for Middle East, US, Russia, Austria and Italy Human Pharma (HP) and Animal Health (AH) Businesses. 30%

Global IT Business Consultant /European Veeva SME

•	Local BA Role to support UK Business users through the implementation of a Global incentive and compensation SaaS application built on salesforce.com.   The application was Sales IQ from Axtria but we called it CompMax internally. 10%

Local BA for CompMax project                                                                        

•	Regional BA role to coach, mentor and support UK, Germany and Spain AH business CRM Managers and IT BAs in the CRMOne Project through 4 quarterly releases of change to Veeva and Salesforce, end to end scope. 20%

Regional BA Co-Ordinator for CRMOne Phase 2 Project                                                 

•	Global Project Manager for the CRMOne project (Veeva / Salesforce SaaS) delivering new functionality to the ipad and laptop users.
•	Worked with the local Business Leads and IT Business Analysts in 8 countries.
•	Utilised lessons learned to Initiate the concept of a Regional BA Co-ordinator for phase 2 of the project, to enable more efficient support and coaching for countries grouped by similar business needs and processes. 
•	Responsible for global vendor management of project resources covering vendors in the US, Germany, Spain, France and Singapore
•	Managed a budget of 1.8 million Euro including monthly monitoring of invoices, forecasts and actuals reporting accountable to project steering committee and Global IT Management.

Global Project Manager CRMOne Phase 1 Project

•	Project Manager for complex Veeva / Salesforce SaaS Implementation project for UK AH replacing previous CRM systems
•	Project scope expanded to also include harmonisation of business processes, Data warehousing and Reporting and rebates when BI bought Merial AH and merged the businesses.

IT Project Manager CVCRM and OFTC Projects                                                          

•	IS Business Partner for Animal Health and Consumer Health Care
•	Regular meetings with the divisional stakeholders
•	Demand Management and Consultancy
•	Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis
•	Escalation point for IS/IT topics

IT Business Partner (UK AH and CHC)	

•	Core member of the Alliance PMO Senior Management team
•	Responsible to update Alliance Senior Sponsor on the state of the Alliance and manage key issues and bring  potential solutions to his attention.
•	Co-ordinated and project managed the work of 12 Global Workstream Leads (technical experts) in BI and Lilly to provide standard services for the Alliance
•	Line Manager responsibility for 4 US based Cap Gemini Consultants.
•	PO Raising and Budget Tracking responsibility for the Diabetes Alliance cost centre 
•	Provided governance and guidance to the Alliance countries on the standard processes and where needed, evaluated and approved/rejected requested deviations.
•	Program Manager for the Product Launch of 2 Diabetes products in 14 countries.
•	Project Manager for the Diabetes Alliance Portal.

IS Program Manager – Global Diabetes Alliance	

Maternity Leave

•	Project Manager for the Diabetes Alliance in the UK.
•	Worked with Lilly IT to create Interfaces to share the Call information and ensure that the contractual terms of the alliance are met.
•	Took initiative to create handbook to share learnings of collaboration with other countries, including what is needed for collocated alliance staff.
•	Handbook was adopted and rolled out by Global Alliance Program.

UK Project Manager – Global Diabetes Alliance

Maternity leave

•	IS Business Consultant Team responsible for Corporate Centre Marketing Diabetes. 
•	Responsible for business analysis, consultancy and solution generation.
•	Experience of working with customers at Corporate Centre whilst being based predominately in the UK

IS Business Partner 	(Corporate HQ Marketing- Germany)                                              

•	Responsible representing the Global IS Alliance team to the European OPUS (16 Countries).
•	Main point of liaison and guidance for the local IS Business Partners. 
•	Responsible for raising the requirements of the local OPUs to the global team and to look for opportunities to harmonise solutions and approach.

European IT Lead for Lilly Alliance Activities (European OPU Co-Ordinator)

•	Part of UK IT Business Consultancy Team responsible for PM, AH and CHC. 
•	Responsible for business analysis, consultancy and solution generation.
•	Worked with international Teams (Developers in Germany, Client contacts in Canada, Australia, Belgium, Singapore)
•	Responsible for technically scoping relevant Work Requests and liaising with the IS scheduling team.
•	Responsible for working with the Business Divisions (Clients) to process map and analyse their requests for ISS assistance and manage their programme of projects.
•	Responsible for Project Delivery to Clients using new or existing technologies.
•	Represents the whole IT Consultancy team to IT Project Management Office for project updates and conflict resolution.

IT Business Consultant 

Returned to IT and was technical lead for implementing two global projects to HP UK.
•	Responsible for creating the implementation project plan and tracking risks.
•	Managed Change between the old and new coaching processes.
•	Liaised with the Development teams in Germany and the UK Stakeholders at all levels.

Group Leader- IS Consulting 	

•	Worked within the HP Business as a CRM specialist alongside external consultants for the Siebel 7.8 implementation, providing some cost savings and providing an insider’s view on scopes of work,

Secondment to Human Pharma (HP) Division 

•	Line Manager for a team of 5 Demand Managers\Consultants.
•	Conducted Annual performance reviews for team and managed team training budget.
•	Authorised Pay Rises and external training for team members.
•	Helped coach team members through developing and acting on their personal development plans.
•	Team responsible for all divisions except finance.
•	My role included Demand management for PM, AH and CHC.

Group Leader -Business Consultancy & Support                                                        

•	Line Manager for a team of 4 Siebel Support and development specialists focused on UK.
•	Conducted MAG Reviews for team.
•	Managed Team Training Budget.
•	Proposed and championed Pay Rises for team members to reward high performance.
•	Supported Animal Heath, Human Pharma and Human Resources teams

Group Leader - CRM Team 	

•	Part of CRM Team Responsible for the Vetmedica division  ( Animal Health).
•	Broad-based experience of all aspects of Development and Support, from requirement clarification, configuration and Testing to full documentation and assisting with production support.

Programmer Analyst

Make-A-Wish Foundation UK

I enjoyed being on the board of Trustees for Make-A-Wish UK, a charity i have volunteered for since my University days.   It was fantastic to work alongside Neil, David and the rest of the team of very talented individuals to help the charity continue to grant wishes for children living with life threatening illnesses.  A very worthy cause who support not just the child but the whole family.

Member Board of Trustees

Deloitte Consulting

Consignia – Formally the Post Office Group
(Bristol, London, Leeds)
•	Certified CRM Siebel consultant on Large, complex Siebel Implementation spanning the 3 Consignia Brands (Parcelforce, Royal Mail and Post Office Network).
•	Working on client site with clients to devise and document their requirements and prototype changes on Siebel Call Centre application, Siebel Sales and Siebel Marketing Applications.

Business Consultant and Analyst in CRM Practice

I was a consultant developing Siebel for Deloitte's Clients working on some of their biggest projects

Crm Consultant

•	CRM Business Analyst and Developer – Graduate position offered after university work placement, broad-based Siebel implementation team experience.
•	Lead 4 Complete Roll-outs to six 3M Businesses. Responsible for helping define business processes, Scoping and roll-out planning, UAT, Training, End-user support.
•	Managed training to 45 users, prepared all materials, delivered Training, offered follow-up support. 
•	Managed EIM Data Migration load from legacy system into upgraded schema as part of upgrade to Siebel 2000 
•	Performed Configuration of business components/ applets/ screens views/Picklists/ MVG etc and Multilanguage LOVs).
•	Lead CRM Analyst for a new 3M business. Responsible for bringing them onto the system.  Guide them through their Configuration, requirements, Business processes - working out responsibilities, which licences will be required, training, organising legacy data to load

Application Developer

I am a highly motivated Salesforce Professional with 20+ years Life Sciences experience. Always learning and striving to do the best job I can in order to see my customers succeed.  I enjoy being faced with a challenge that needs a solution or process improvement and working it through to resolution.  The reward is knowing you have used your skills to create a positive impact or help someone else achieve their aims.

I am passionate about technology, CRM and Life Sciences and the benefits these can bring to Human and Animal-kind and I thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

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