Mark Large Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for recruiting 1700 different functional staff including commercial, finance, project management, engineering and inventory management across the business in 12 months, contracting with a strategic partner and service provider, using specialist vendors. Improving recruitment processes, and workforce management and planning to ensure an enhanced candidiate experience, more recruits and increased retention as well as a faster and better managed recruitment process.Responsible for conducting a 9 month Zero-base Review/ organizational review to understand organizational design for next few years until new operating model in place, identify and confirm organizational outputs, map 17000 staff to outputs, and identify and agree major organisational design and new operating model building blocks to transform DE&S as well as identify opportunities for redesign, rebalancing and efficiencies by business area, workforce and outputsResponsible for identifying, planning and implementing organizational changes in DE&S - a 20,000 strong organisation with a £14bn annual budget - from June 2012 to April 2015 to reduce operating costs by 28% and meet Government mandated the manpower-reduction target of 25% saving. Programme manager of activity to deliver new organizational model for DE&S to ensure MOD has balanced equipment, MOD gets balance in Defence materiel and DE&S is smaller with engaged and motivated staff and the behaviours, accountabilities, skills and processes it needs. Organizational lead for learning from experience for change management- author of organization change management guideLead and manage 4-year complex large change programme in defence public sector for Chief Defence Materiel. Transform ways of working, collocate staff, introduce through-life programme management, introduce flexible resourcing and reduce staff from 28,000 to 20,000 and make £215M efficiency savings. Delivered one year early with increased efficiencies of £252M

Senior HR leader and member of management boards, responsible for TUPE and TU advice and consultation for large successful outsourcing programmes delivered to time. Also responsible for HR business planning, organizational talent management, recruitment and retention, workforce planning, organizational change etcLarge £700M programme to take 180 rationalised information system contracts and contract for a single service managed provider to manage UK Armed Forces logistics information system applications worldwide.Implement skills IT system (for DLO Main Board) across organization of 28 000 staff successfully within 3 months, ensuring greater than 35% usage on immediate deliveryResponsible to Director General Strategy for ensuring 11 pathfinder Defence projects, such as Tornado aircraft, SA80 rifle and Sea King helicopter, able to deliver agree new support solutions with industry including contracting for availability etc. Worked with project teams to understand best solution, current position and means of transforming between the 2. All projects devised successful support solutions.

Uk And Overseas

Defence Crises Management Centre Logistics Officer for major international conflicts and UK operations; Detachment Logistics Officer in Bahrain and Turkey (inc liaison with British Embassy and Turkish General Staff); UK Mobile Air Movements Operations Officer/Lyneham Airport Manager; Royal Logistics Corps Officer 9-month Petroleum Course; accepted/commissioned and operated largest aircraft fuel hydrant-refuelling and bulk storage system; RAF Explosives & Fuels Officer;Defence Academy Course Tutor and Programme Manager; Whitehall Fuel Policy Officer

Msc (Distinction), Management

Bsc(Hons) First Class, Logistics Management

Post-Grad Diploma, Airport Management

A Levels

Gces

Petroleum Engineering

Supply Chain; Air Movements; Explosives; Fuels;