Ciaran Mara

Background

About Ciaran Mara

Commercially focused and astute Business Transformation, Business Development, Customer Engagement and Project Management professional with more than 20 years experience in strategic solution development across industries including: Warehousing & Freight Logistics, International FMCG, Global Entertainment, Oil & Gas, and Global Mining & Explosives Services. BD Solution Manager for complex RFP’s delivering efficiencies, cost savings, and supply chain solutions, SME in the areas of Finance, IT Logistics Mining Freight & Operations Solutions and Continuous Improvement. Extensive experience leading cross-organisational/cross-functional and vertically integrated projects from architectural design to implementation. Lead projects that tie in the logistics & procurement life cycle or front/ back office finance operations, logistics and IT systems and services. I bring unique abilities through experience and applied strategy across industrial & manufacturing logistics, warehousing and transportation in areas of financial and IT solutions. I identify and evaluate technical solutions for their commercial impact and risks and drive continuous improvement through collaboration with business and IT by approaching the solution from sides in most end to end processes, to find the best and innovative, balanced path forward. Core competencies: • Strategic Solution Development & Business Transformation. • Logistics End to End Solutions, Warehousing Automation, Mining Logistics, Order to Cash, POD. • IT Customer, Business & Operations Engagement, Solution development & Change Management. • Project management, Solution Costing, Delivery and facilitating change. • Design & establishment of global Shared Service Centre’s. • Solutions for Shared service centre management. Finance, Order to Cash, End to end Logistics • Automated workflow & Archive solutions. • Business analyst with direct contribution to solutions in IT and business process. • Finance & Tax regulatory compliance across Asia, US, Canada & Australia/NZ. SUMMARY OF SKILLS: • Business & Process Flow Solutions Architect • IT Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Business Case Development & Delivery • Facilitating Change, Technical Support & Training. • Strategic Planning & Solution Design, Business Solutions Deployment • Process Optimisation & Automation (Business & Operations flow Processes & IT Solutions). • Systems Implementation (Managing Delivery End to End) • Operations Teams Development and upskilling • Client Relations & Emerging Technology