Mark Whitlock Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

- Working on client assignments, including developing digital building strategies and undertaking feasibility studies for new retail data platforms, plus pursuing new business opportunities for Cornerstone.

London, United Kingdom

- Responsible for liaising with teams across Tax & Accounting, Legal, Platform and News business areas to ensure that an effective Operations support model was developed, agreed, and implemented to support applications moving to the AWS cloud. This was part of the effort to divest the financial data and trading business of Thomson Reuters to LSEG.

London, United Kingdom

- Managed a change programme of 90+ people to implement strategies and cyber security technologies to combat potential loss, unavailability or corruption of GSK's information and systems. This included coordination of PMO functions.

London, United Kingdom

- Led and managed a team responsible for Legal and HR approvals for the implementation of systems such as email monitoring, decryption and information loss prevention.

- Engaged to deliver a global change programme to implement new security procedures and access control systems to offices and factories across the Unilever portfolio with a spend of £60m over the lifecycle of the programme. Managed cross-functional teams to assess sites and deliver to Unilever security standards – 36 sites successfully delivered across 12 countries.

- Managed and implemented programmes and projects across the Commercial area including the development of the Budget brand, bids for new business, pricing strategies, digital implementations and new products

London Area, United Kingdom

- Employed to manage the build and test phases of the A380 software and ground tools infrastructure. - Delivered IT infrastructure and processes to support software loads for the new A380

- Responsible for managing the BA IT aspect of the programme to combine Iberia Cargo and BA World Cargo under the IAG Cargo group. This included the movement of HR and Payroll services to a new company structure with the background of a consultation / TUPE process underway.

- Successful management of a programme that was set up to transform the business to achieve a reduction in working capital. An improvement of over £1.5bn was achieved.- Responsible for oversight of 4 streams of work covering inventory, accounts payable, accounts receivable and consensus forecasting, with activities at GSK locations across the globe

- Managed projects to improve supply chain responsiveness and reduce inventory levels in the consumer and pharmaceutical areas of the business, which led to the achievement of a 3 year target of £500m.

London Area, United Kingdom

- Responsible for testing for a new laboratory information management system to meet regulatory requirements including configuration and verification activities for releases.- Managed a team of 40 offshore testers and onshore support personnel to complete system testing activities and coordinate associated incident management and application fixes

London Area, United Kingdom

- Managed project teams for the building, testing, training and implementation of the T5 resource allocation system for two functional areas – aircraft movements and ground transport. This was as part of BA’s move to its new Terminal 5 facility.

London Area, United Kingdom

- Managed the delivery of large scale retail projects / business solutions (up to £2m) including product bundling and Wi-Fi propositions, marketing and communications, retention plans & internal systems improvements

- Successfully planned and implemented a managed rollout of network upgrades for 50+ advertising, outdoor media and theatre locations to enable centralisation of IT and data services to US corporate headquarters (£800k for new infrastructure)

London Area, United Kingdom

- Project manager - Implementation of global mid-tier data centre upgrades as part of the wider global network upgrade project. - Business Analyst - Worked as part of the financial market data group to develop a replacement for the existing global network infrastructure and support future data growth- Graduate Programme - An eighteen-month scheme involving placements throughout the company

Msc Computer Science

Ba Hons Business Economics