Managing Consultant Transformation & Programme Delivery Consulting Growth
Harris Rana
Managing Consultant Transformation & Programme Delivery Consulting Growth

Wins new clients.Grows the relationship.Owns the delivery.

Transformation leader combining enterprise delivery with relationship-led growth, with 10 years of experience across financial services, consumer goods and aviation. Chairs C-suite forums, owns programme budgets and benefits realisation, and builds the operating models, partnerships and talent pipelines an organisation grows on.

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Harris Rana
10 yrs
Enterprise change across financial services, consumer goods and aviation
£5m
Projected revenue from the Digital Spine programme originated at Standard Life
€30m
Waste reduction underpinned by five analytics products at Unilever
5 FTSE 100
Companies consulted for, including HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Unilever
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Why Harris

Commercial leadership, backed by delivery

01

Originates and grows accounts

Originated the five-year Digital Spine programme at Standard Life, then grew the account to four consulting roles and two further opportunities across digital, data, finance and analysis.

02

Delivers measurable value

Owned the global roadmap and budget for Unilever’s analytics products across markets and time zones, reporting progress and realised value to senior leadership.

03

Builds AI tools for sales and delivery

Built three AI-enabled tools for the firm: a sales pipeline tracker, an account management tool for Standard Life and a profile builder for placing consultants with clients. Also led firm-wide AI upskilling.

04

Invests in people, partners and the firm

Established the TCS strategic partnership, launched the internship programme and line-manages consultants, and creates new sales from a standing start through industry events and executive relationships.

Selected Clients and Organisations
Consultancies, banking, insurance, asset management, consumer goods and aviation
Transform Together
Standard Life
Phoenix
HSBC
Capco
Unilever
Lloyds Banking Group
EY
abrdn
ING
RGP
TSB
dnata
BBRS
APG
Transform Together
Standard Life
Phoenix
HSBC
Capco
Unilever
Lloyds Banking Group
EY
abrdn
ING
RGP
TSB
dnata
BBRS
APG
Services

How I Add Value

  • Business Development
    Opening new client relationships and converting opportunities into revenue.
  • Account Growth
    Building strategic partnerships and expanding existing client relationships.
  • Strategy & Transformation
    Defining the direction, business case and roadmap for change.
  • Diagnostics & Discovery
    Assessing current performance, identifying opportunities and prioritising action.
  • Programme Recovery
    Restoring control, confidence and momentum to programmes off track.
  • Business & Technology Integration
    Aligning systems, processes, people and operating models.
  • Programme Delivery
    Mobilising and leading complex change from strategy through execution.
  • Innovation & Proof of Concept
    Testing new ideas, validating value and building the case for scale.
Delivery

Ten years across consulting, contract and client-side delivery

Managing Consultant

Transform Together Consulting

Delivery leadership, account growth, marketing and people

Standard LifeCBESTDigital SpineTCS Partnership
  • Lead flagship transformations for UK financial-services clients, from consolidating global accounting feeds onto a single data platform to mobilising a new independent-advice service; accountable for plan, governance, risk and executive alignment.
  • Originated and secured Standard Life’s five-year Digital Spine programme, worth approximately £1m in annual and £5m in total revenue to the firm.
  • Lead the commercial growth of the Standard Life account, securing four consulting roles and originating two further opportunities across digital, data, finance and analysis.
  • Developing a scalable asset-management channel designed to provide direct access to portfolio companies and create a repeatable route to market for transformation and operational-improvement engagements.
  • Delivery lead for Standard Life’s customer digital tribe in live service, redesigning its operating model and setting its 2027 performance targets.
  • Delivery lead for a CBEST regulatory programme at Standard Life, hardening security across the estate to regulator-set expectations.
  • Developed a strategy-to-execution proposition for APG, translating asset-level investment priorities into executable transformation roadmaps to improve operational performance and long-term portfolio value.
  • Build senior sales pipeline across banking, insurance, asset management and industry through executive relationships, industry events, proposition development and board-level pitches.
  • Own the marketing function end to end: operating model, standards, content targets and the campaign cadence behind brand visibility and inbound leads.
  • Line-manage consultants and interns across performance, deployment and development at high utilisation, and run a repeatable internship programme that strengthens the firm’s early-career talent pipeline.
  • Built AI-enabled tools for sales pipeline tracking, Standard Life account management and consultant profile creation, and led firm-wide AI upskilling.
  • Established the firm’s strategic partnership with TCS and led empanelment, opening access to larger enterprise opportunities.
Capability

Core expertise

Governance & Control

  • Executive Stakeholder Management
  • Portfolio Governance
  • PMO & Demand Management
  • Financial Planning & Control
  • Resourcing & Capacity Planning

Change & Operating ModelChange & Op Model

  • Target Operating Model
  • Change and Adoption
  • Benefits Realisation
  • Regulatory & Compliance Change
  • ESG Programmes

Tech, Data & Innovation

  • ERP Delivery
  • Vendor Selection & Procurement
  • Data Transformation
  • AI Tool Development
  • Design Thinking & Facilitation

Commercial & People

  • Proposition Development
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • People Leadership
  • Talent Acquisition
About

Beyond the day job

InternshipJun – Sep 2015

Petroleum Engineer, Petrofac

Integrated asset modelling in the IPM suite

Education2014 – 2015

MSc Petroleum Engineering

Imperial College London

Education2011 – 2014

BEng Mechanical Engineering

First Class Honours, Brunel University London

Qualifications
PRINCE2 Agile PractitionerCDMP AssociateProfessional Scrum Master IMicrosoft Azure AI FundamentalsRoyal Academy of Engineering Fellowship
Leadership and Interests

Organises and hosts events for Azeemia Foundation UK, promoting peace through diversity. English editor for Qalandar Shaoor Monthly, co-founder of a creative media and music venture, and author of three self-published fantasy and science-fiction novellas.