Van Williams, Senior Manager, Strategic Programs

Van Williams

Senior Manager, Strategic Programs

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management Studies
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

Senior Manager, Strategic Programs at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since February 2014

Ensured seamless departmental operations by steering in-house teams and external Consultants of up to 10 persons per program. Increased productivity and reduced workforce cost for 5 years by leading Workforce Plan for Human Capital worth $1.5M. Established organisational wide robust customer relationship management strategy worth $8M, including procuring solution, directing organisational change through education and training, as well as standing up a new CRM function. Managed program execution from initial designs to completion, including building design, to construction to business and clinical readiness.
•Achieved 1.5K patient visits target by administering access to care program, involving 40 work streams.
•Secured $12M and insurance denial rate cut by 50% through improvements in charge and data capture.
•Saved $35M by directing supply chain savings initiative that includes overseeing slow and non-moving stock in the Distribution Center.
•Ensured efficient flow of information by delivering enterprise level communication device program for over 3K physicians.

Senior IT Consultant at Etihad Airways
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 2012 to February 2014

Established Etihad's first Cargo Loyalty Programme that includes supervision of remote development teams in UK. Improved email campaigns to Etihad's customer base by executing Salesforce email campaign tool. Managed national and international team of 20 people as well as developed and reported project delivery to top management such as VP.
• Generated $5M online revenue by directing complex IT projects for Etihad.com.
• Commended by the executive management for managing IT online sales portfolio worth $6M.
• Increased end-user experience and governed campaign management by overseeing CRM Loyalty deployments.

Senior Digital Program Manager at Digitas LBi
  • United Kingdom - London
  • May 2011 to August 2012

Administered architects, art directors, designers, interface developers, .net developers, and user researchers to increase productivity. Delivered exceptional support in development of digital proposition. Oversaw digital portfolio of blue-chips client worth $3.5M by leading digital campaigns and ensuring quality. Ensured compliance with project standards by coordinating with client agencies. Directed project efficiently delivering exceptional guideline to junior project managers and streamline project management processes.
•Boosted revenue resulting in accomplishing BT’s digital pre-sales targets.
•Completed project in strict timeline and budgetary constraints.
•Increased productivity as well as optimise team performance to ensure on time project delivery.
Brilliant UK, London
Head of Project Delivery

Head of Project Delivery at Brilliant UK
  • United Kingdom - London
  • November 2010 to April 2011

Generated business for agency by collaborating with Account and Creative Directors. Ensured profitability of ecommerce build projects and built reports to inform higher management, such as Managing Director.
• Admired by executive management for managing agency digital portfolio of worth $1.5M.
• Executed client retention and acquisition strategy that successfully increased client pipeline two times.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management Studies
  • at Royal Holloway University of London
  • June 2000

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Programme Delivery
Digital Marketing
B2B eCommerce
B2C marketing
Relationship Management
Digital Strategy Development
Strategic Planning & Execution
Program & Project Management
Training & Development
Continuous Process Improvement
Digital Campaign Management

Languages

English
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Chartered Institute of Marketing − Professional Diploma in Marketing (Certificate)
Lean Six Sigma Yellow & Green Belt (Certificate)
APMG International − Agile Practitioner (Certificate)
APMG International − Prince 2 Practitioner (Certificate)