Say hello to Simon Coulbeck
Managing Director | Specialist Sectors
In his 15 years at Gobeyond Partners, Simon has led multiple, large scale business transformations across a wide rage of sectors including investment banking, insurance, and healthcare sectors
His style is collaborative and assured which he employs to bring out the best in his team. He enjoys applying his skills to new environments, decoding the complex and designing solutions that deliver tangible value to clients.
Consulting experience
Operating model
Led the operating model redesign for a large global specialty & retail insurance broker’s UK insurance model covering UK regional offices, headquarters and offshore operations. Business cases generated to deliver £40m annualised savings
Capability improvement
Designed and supported implementation of optimised operating model for the UK’s largest domiciliary healthcare provider. Maintaining quality of care whilst increasing operational capability and reducing costs by £42m per annum
Lean management
Managed Gobeyond Partners’s team to train and coach an internal, lean change team and support them in the delivery of lean improvement across the IT functions of a multinational high street bank. The programme delivered £11m in benefits in the first year
Transformation
Responsible for Gobeyond Partners’s involvement in a large scale transformation programme for a top 3 investment bank’s global finance function, resulting in multi-million pounds of savings.
Organisational redesign
Delivered £1.5m benefits in focussed organisational redesign improvement projects using a structured Lean service improvement framework in one of the largest global investment banks.
Continuous improvement
Developed and implemented sustainable, continuous improvement process, across 3 operational sites in Belgium as part of a larger Europe wide project for a multinational poly-olefin manufacturer. Over €16m euro benefits was delivered by the end of the engagement.
Management experience
British Sugar Plc
Refinery manager
Operations manager for a 24/7 900 tonne per day FMCG production facility.
Improvement manager
Led team of improvement engineers supporting multiple international operations to deliver rapid operational improvement.
Team Leader
Led team of production and engineering staff operating a sugar refinery processing 10000 tonnes of raw material per day.