Adrian Cresswell

• • Haven (part of Bourne Leisure) Successful Workday Go-Live, January 2026

• • Led a full greenfield Workday implementation for Haven, covering end-to-end programme mobilisation through to successful Go-Live.

• • Owned RFP development, Advisory Partner and Systems Implementor (SI) selection, commercial negotiations, and Statement of Work (SOW) definition for Phase Zero including Workday module selection.

• • Established the core Workday delivery team, including key role selection, programme resource planning, and training preparation and engagement post-Workday sign-off.

• • Directed technical and functional readiness for Foundation build, including organisational design and preparation for initial data loads.

• • Set up and governed all major workstreams across the programme: HCM: Talent Management, Absence, Learning, Recruiting, Time Tracking, Compensation & Benefits, Advanced Compensation Financials: Business Assets, Expenses, Banking & Settlement, Procure-to-Pay, Supplier Accounts, Customer Accounts Payroll: Full migration and implementation of Workday UK Payroll from legacy systems (AX) Programme & Enablement: Change Management, Reporting, Services & Support, Security, GDPR, Training, IT/IS, Data, Testing, Integrations, and Governance

• • Delivered successful end-to-end and integrations testing across all modules.

• • Acted as Named Support Contact Administrator (NSCA) and Training Coordinator and Workday Community advisor.

• • Stellantis: Highly complex implementation moving from multiple key HR systems (SAPHR, Peoplesoft etc.) and payroll integrations for 17 countries and 260k users.

• • Significant work required for Data Governance including, extraction, remediation, Transformation & Tooling and Load preparation.

• • Workers Council planning and negotiations undertaken for Germany and Austria.

• • Consultancy required after multiple issues with methodology planning, partner resourcing, configuration, testing, data workstreams and phasing approach.

• • Restructuring of internal PMO for governance, budget control, change request prioritisation, Update management, Stakeholder management, and Escalation .

• • Restructuring of Architectural Design Authority, Programme and Project meetings.

• • Significant Data Governance and re-structure required using 3rd party (PALANTIR).

• • Costain: Requirements gathering, RFP/RFQ build and scoring system prepared for a new HR system implementation.

• • Budget estimates matched to Business case and Resource estimates and timelines prepared. PMO established and set-up. Change and Comms Plans developed and outlined. Implementation strategy papers prepared.

• • System Vendor evaluations for Tier 1 Oracle, ADP, Ceridian, SAP, Workday and additional Tier 2 options

• • System Implementation (SI) partner evaluations (partners for System Vendors) and Phase Zero advisory partners evaluated and awarded.

• • Additional outlook strategy paper created and reviews for Data Migration, System transition and Deployment and AMS (Application Managed Support) implementation.

• • Complete framework design and presented to C** suite.

• • System selected: Oracle with Implementation partner.