Elle Anderson

Summary: I am a commercially astute, delivery-focussed, senior product leader and former full stack web developer. 17 years of senior product management and VP experience, and an overall 23 years of global programme management experience experimenting with customer behaviour, digital-shift of product and services, designing frictionless back office change and customer experience, and leading workforce modernisation/ways of working initiatives that underpin award-winning product experiences. I have built, coached, scaled, and transformed product teams and led multiple high-impact products from concept to launch.

Industries: Government, Retail and Investment Banking, Financial Planning and Retirement, Insurances, Healthcare, Financial Services, Financial Crime, Financial Reporting and Compliance, Retail Coffee Tea and Beverage, Retail Food Service Franchise, Computer Animation Studios/Entertainment Media, Food and Beverage, and Multi-National Retail.

Career Highlights 

• Senior Product Manager for Starbucks Global Retail Experience, designing an upgraded store experience globally including upgraded Retail Payments System, Rewards Strategy, Wifi, and new flow-efficient system of work for baristas using Kanban and Theory of Constraints (ToC). Handed over a successful relaunch and roadmap of bets that would enable deeper digital transformation, in line with technology enhancements;
• Senior Consultant accountable for major product recovery programmes in the UK public sector, (Head of Product Delivery for NHS Digital Records System, Product Manager for GP-Self Check-In, Senior Product Manager for Cloud and Unified Communications for Department for Work and Pensions), also played a significant agile coaching role to unlock the delivery of a new Scottish government service using GSD standards (MyGov.Scot);
• Product Leader for two apps that made the Apple 100 list, 50M downloads, (Domino’s Pizza, Capital One);
• Led innovation focus groups and product discovery for Bose Next Generation Portables;
• Product Owner and Product Director for significant winners of product/feature of the year in respective regions (Lloyds Banking Group Single Customer View WebApp and LEGO Find-My-Brick); 
• Given the distinguished recognition of Fellow (FBCS) Chartered Institute for IT;
• An extensive product and agile coaching portfolio working at team and enterprise level for Adidas, Jaguar Land Rover, BP, Pixar Animation Studios, 
• Extensive experience developing product management functions, building strong product managers, supporting and mentoring individuals, helping enterprise companies in becoming product-led, coaching and training methods, ways of working, and consulting to create team topologies conducive to a product model.

Edinburgh Napier University, MBA