Mark Franklin Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Working in conjunction with the DLA Piper Senior Partner to foster ongoing, mutually beneficial, business relationships in line with the both the client’s and DLA Piper’s strategic goals, values and ethics as a trusted client support.I am responsible for the project management of the Senior Partner’s day to day client relationshipand business development work, in addition to the monitoring of sponsored projects. I foster a strong partnership with country, group and sector leadership teams, as well as business services, to help the Senior Partner optimise their client facing activity across the International Offices.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Key account manager for the firms largest panel client, increasing billings from <$5 million to >$25 million per year. Supporting and collaborating with partners across the globe to deliver a One DLA service to clients, driving change and delivering value. Managing logistics for the largest yearly pro bono project for New Perimeter, remotely since 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. Trusted advisor to the Senior Partner and Global Co Chair of the Board at DLA Piper, managing client relationships and developing business opportunities. Supporting elected board members with initiatives such as improving accessibility and communications.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Account management responsibilities for one of the firms 6 International Key Clients, GE. I drive the strategy across the global firm, collaborating with the different practice groups to deliver a one DLA Piper experience to the client and supporting their business efforts.Responsible for all marketing activities across the international Life Science and Media, Sports and Entertainment sectors (all jurisdictions bar the Americas) this involves providing high level, added-value support across the full marketing mix, including profile raising through targeted communications campaigns and business development through the strategic management of pitches, client development and targeting programmes. Account manager of 3 key clients, involves ensuring reports are delivered on time to the senior management of the firm and client, organization of review meetings, opportunity analysis and delivery on actions.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Responsibilities included implementation of a new CRM system, corporate website redesign, management of relationships with outside agencies such as design, advertising and SEO. Four direct reports within the marketing team, I carried out appraisals and set goals. I provided subject matter, context and had final say on copy for differing media including print ads, web banners, email shots social media and targeted campaigns and was responsible for a budget of close to £500K. I successfully completed the design and installation of the CRM Microsoft Dynamics.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Product Manager for 2D Electrophoresis, Western Blotting and Membranes. 2014 Product Management lead for the integration of the Sera Mag Business GE acquired from ThermoFisher Scientific, involved in many aspects from the move of manufacturing site from California to Cardiff and customer communications to stock build and procurement of capital equipment and knowledge transfer. Previously responsible for all Nucleic Acid Purification, Amplification and PCR Clean up products 2012-2014. Multi-million dollar portfolio, responsibilities include new product introductions, global strategy development, maximise profitability of portfolio, lifecycle management, rationalization and deputizing where appropriate for the Segment lead. Providing regular updates to the long-term strategic business planning process, interfacing with the Global Operations such as supply chain, R&D, manufacturing and regional sales. Key role in identification of new growth opportunities to improve portfolio market position to meet sales and profit objectives, includes OEM products as well as novel technologies. Develop and implement the annual marketing plan in conjunction with central marcomms and regional marketing. Lead the distribution channel marketing aspects of New Product Introduction programs to meet market and customer needs. Product management lead for annual pricing process. Lead the efforts of multiple work groups to meet business goals such as manufacturing cost reductions, change in raw materials, channels to market analysis, developing market analysis and product performance.

Loughborough, Uk

Category Specialist, Equipment and Instruments, for Northern Europe within Product Management, managerial overview of commercial supplier relationships with a focus on delivering consistency in performance, strategy, growth and best practice. Develop strategic and tactical marketing plans to deliver growth targets for the portfolio of products and key suppliers. Business Development Executive for a key global account seconded to lead a team with the objective of tripling the revenue generated by this project within 6 months, this target was achieved and exceeded by month 4. This role also included European project lead for the ThermoFisher laboratory standardisation program “Lean Lab”, touching all parts of this process from product analysis, cross referencing, brand strategy, pricing, to customer facing presentations and roll out. This involved developing processes and relationships with the global leadership team within ThermoFisher as well as external customers. Segment Marketing Manager (Northern Europe), with responsibility for the Life Science, own brand (Fisherbrand), Education, Contract Labs, Biotech and Government segments. In 2009 seconded to Corporate sales for 10 months, implementing the global preferred supplier contract with GSK awarded to Fisher Scientific. I led the team producing the 2008 Life Science Catalogue for Fisher Scientific Northern Europe, devising the format, strategy, co-ordinated launch to market and introduction to the sales force. I qualified and practiced facilitator in the Practical Process Improvement program run by ThermoFisher Scientific.

Postdoctoral research fellow within the Environmental Health Sciences division of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Investigating bacterial community structure within contaminated sites using molecular techniques and phylogenetic analysis with the view to assisting bioremediation. Before work could commence in the laboratory, I set the lab up from a shell with a sink and fume hood into a fully functioning molecular and microbiological research lab. I also provided support for a number of PhD students within the group.

Phd, Molecular Ecology

Msc, Molecular Genetics

Bsc (Hons), Food Sciences And Agriculture, Specialisation In Food Microbiology

Hnd, Applied Biological Sciences

Gcses And A-Levels, Biology, Chenistry, Economics

Activities and Societies: Hockey