Mark Harries Email & Phone Number

Watford, GB

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Board-level role, overseeing strategy, governance and finance. Strategic and operational leadership of the consultancy division, including developing, implementing and monitoring processes. Responsible for financial.
• Delivered consulting turnover growth increase of 50% during 2019 through identification and focus on high-value, high-margin projects, accurate costing, strong monitoring and coaching of junior staff to take on.
• Supported culture and organisational vision of becoming the market leader in accelerating patient access to medicines, devices and diagnostics.
• Led and supported multiple successful health technology assessment (HTA) submissions including one to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) within six weeks against an industry standard of 6.

• Operational management and strategic leadership over a 5-year period following sale in 2007, including integration activity, recruitment, staff development, business development, monitoring and reporting, development.
• Delivered key targets, driving significant growth over a 5-year period whilst maintaining margins.
• Led strategic refocus in 2008 covering expansion of the market access business into health economics and marketing to ensure growth targets remained on track and resulting profitability was above 25% during remaining.
• Ensured optimal customer experience through implementation of quality standards and role modelling quality client relationship management.
• Spearheaded development, implementation and monitoring of performance management.

• Drove delivery, margins and account development and retention through leadership of operations strategy. Generated a new contract worth 10% of annual revenue and attained overall profitability of >30%.

• Managed succession planning following departure from the role, assuring service and standards continuity through recruitment and creation of a handbook which remains in use today.