About Maria
I am a Digital Transformation Project Manager and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience delivering digital change initiatives, agile transformation programmes, and technology-driven business improvements across SaaS, fintech, energy, and retail sectors. I specialise in turning complex strategies into clear, measurable outcomes by bridging strategy, delivery, and value creation.
My expertise includes:
- Digital & Agile Transformation – Designing and implementing digital operating models, scaled agile frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), and cloud-based solutions that boost efficiency, innovation, and customer experience.
- Portfolio, Programme & Project Management – Translating business strategy into prioritised portfolios, roadmaps, and delivery governance frameworks. Experienced in multi-vendor management, budget ownership (£100K–£10M), and PMO leadership to ensure projects deliver against KPIs and ROI.
- Customer & Data Strategy – Using data analytics, insights, and customer journey mapping to optimise digital marketing performance, conversion rates, and strategic decision-making.
- Compliance, Risk & Governance – Embedding risk management, compliance frameworks, and regulatory governance (including FCA and GDPR standards) into agile delivery and product backlogs to maintain control in regulated environments.
I’ve led end-to-end digital transformation programmes that integrate new platforms, streamline operating models, and enable business agility. My approach combines delivery rigour, stakeholder engagement, and change leadership, ensuring alignment between technology, people, and business outcomes.
I work with founders, executives, and programme sponsors to define success metrics, build delivery momentum, and establish sustainable digital capabilities. I partner with clients who value professionalism, trust, and creative problem-solving.
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- UK Public sectorImprovement ManagerPUBLIC SECTORNovember 2025 - Today (7 months)
- Designed and optimised hybrid ways of working as part of the organisation’s digital transformation strategy
- Collaborated with senior stakeholders and board members to ensure strong governance and successful delivery
- Led a portfolio of improvement initiatives to drive digital transformation
- Analysed challenges, uncovered opportunities and delivered change
- Various ClientsAdvisor | Agile Coach | Delivery LeadDIGITAL AND ITOctober 2023 - January 2026 (2 years and 3 months)
- Acted as delivery coach and advisor to founders and delivery teams, building capability in agile delivery, backlog management, and stakeholder communication.
- Led agile delivery planning and execution across multiple digital products (Retail, EdTech, SaaS, FinTech), providing oversight of sprint cycles, and cross-functional schedules.
- Identified and mitigated delivery risks across concurrent projects.
- Established governance and compliance frameworks to strengthen cybersecurity, risk management, and resilience, sharing best practices.
Transformation Projects Highlights:AI SaaS Platform | Combining digital strategy with data insights: Led the digital strategy roadmap by identifying friction points across user journey, proposed and prioritised testable hypotheses, and collaborated with cross-functional teams on execution.Data Reporting Transformation | Improving decision making: Led the modernisation of a reporting system that delivered 20% infrastructure cost savings, largely through consolidation and reduced maintenance.Agile at Scale | Feature delivery without compromising compliance: Transformed scale-up organisation to hybrid delivery via SAFe framework, bringing the delivery of 30 complex features in 6 months vs. previous 18-month timeline. - Various International CompaniesLead Project ManagerDIGITAL AND ITAugust 2012 - July 2025 (12 years and 11 months)
- Owned delivery for SaaS and customer-facing platforms, turning strategy into execution by maintaining refined, prioritised backlogs across multiple workstreams.
- Balanced multiple stakeholders (executive team, engineers, designers, testers, third parties and various departments), aligning expectations while protecting delivery focus.
- Defined and prioritised backlog items, partnering with development teams to ship iterative enhancements that improved campaign ROI by 15%.
Transformation Projects Highlights:Platform Migration | Upgrading a legacy system without disruption: Delivered a loyalty platform migration to enable real-time personalisation, improving customer engagement while gaining efficiency in operations.M&A Tech Integration | Scaling up a business: Accelerated a multimillion portfolio business integration by achieving a 75% faster milestone completion rate.Services Rollout Optimisation | Acceleration via process assessment: Directed a multi-year roadmap to scale EV charging services across Europe with the objective to shorten deployment timelines, reduce costs, and strengthen compliance.
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Education
- Digital Strategy & AnalyticsLondon School of Economics2025Digital Strategy & Analytics
- Financial Analysis & Management AccountingLondon School of Economics2023Financial Analysis & Management Accounting
Certifications
- PMPPMI2011
- Scrum MasterScrum Alliance2011