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Adam Darkes

Adam Darkes

PMO Lead

Administrative

Birmingham, Birmingham

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About Adam Darkes:

I am a seasoned and results-oriented professional with extensive experience in driving operational excellence and resilience. Adept at managing teams, driving business improvements, and delivering complex projects while aligning organisational goals with performance, I have demonstrative experience in strategic workforce planning, business operations, governance, and risk management. I thrive on improving underperforming systems, achieving measurable outcomes and enabling better decisions. I am committed to achieving real business outcomes and aligning efforts to company strategy. My mission is to create sustainable change that helps align large, complex organisations and products against business objectives in fast-changing environments. I do this by underpinning innovation with operational structure and human-centric leadership.

Experience

Senior Manager Business Operations, Data & AI - BT Group (Sep 2024 - Jun 2025)

PMO Lead, Data & AI - BT Group (Jul 2022 - Aug 2024)

Head of PMO - Gambling Commission (Mar 2019 - Mar 2022)

Senior Manager, Business Planning & Reporting - Gambling Commission (Jan 2017 - Feb 2019)

Commercial, Quality & Business Support Roles - Trident Social Investment Group (May 2004 - Aug 2016)

Debt Recovery Team Leader - Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd (Aug 2003 - Apr 2004)

Finance Team Leader - Staples UK Ltd (Mar 2001 - Aug 2003)

Credit Controller - Unifix Ltd (Jan 2001 - Mar 2001)

Executive Associate Finance Assistant - City College East Birmingham (Sep 2000 - Dec 2000)

Intermediary Accounts Technician - Zurich Insurance (Apr 2000 – Sep 2000)

Education

BSc (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice – University of Portsmouth, 1999 

1 A-Level – General Studies, 10 GCSE’s including Mathematics and English - Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, 1996 

Governance Certificate Course, Association of Corporate Governance Practitioners, 2014

PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner, 2008

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