Paul Whiteside Email & Phone Number

Poulton-Le-Fylde, England, United Kingdom

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• Strategic leadership and management responsibility for product led commercial growth across the organisation through diversification from the company's core funded qualification market. • Creation and delivery of a companywide strategy for research, development, communication, engagement and growth.• Influencing government policy though my position on the T level panel.• Leading the development of all IMI products including gateway and end point assessment material for apprenticeship standards, through to user acceptance testing and performance monitoring. • Undertaking and commissioning research and trend analysis to influence new and existing product development.• Business planning and full Profit and Loss responsibility.• Leading, mentoring and developing a management team across a diverse range of specialisms.• Ensuring compliance with the General Conditions of Recognition, and other regulatory requirements, for the annual statement and on an ongoing basis. • Working with all devolved nations to maintain a relationship and regulatory compliance. • Engaging in sector and provider networking to maintain a high awareness of current and future developments.• Taking the lead with key account customers to ensure customer satisfaction and retention. • Maintaining an ongoing understanding of changes within the eductaion landscape, including funding and anticipating the business impact.• Establishing and managing external partner relationships to support delivery of services for member groups e.g. employers, regulatory authorities, government departments, agencies and product partners. • Chairing the Product Lifecycle Group to review the suitability, validity and viability of over 1300 products. • Responsibility for the IMI’s Sector Skills Council and developing a robust conflict of interest policy and managing its implementation.• Design, implement and monitor a quality management and improvement system across the department.

Achievements and responsibilities: • Reviewing and restructuring the global external quality assurance team. • Implementing and managing change to the operating model for external quality assurance and control. • Responsible for the ongoing risk management of over six hundred and fifty IMI approved centres, nationally and internationally, delivering in excess of seventy thousand assessment products per annum. • Charing the Institute of the Motor Industry’s Compliance Panel to review incidents of non-compliance.• Responsible for the effective management of malpractice/maladministration and non-compliance investigations relating to the delivery and award of qualifications. • Managing projects to implement new or updated quality systems, processes and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.• Maintaining an ongoing internal audit process. • Responsibility for a large team of remote and office based managers and specialists. • Member of key business wide review panels, including: - Awarding Operational Compliance, International Development Strategy, Quality & Compliance and Product Lifecycle. • Training and mentoring managers within my direct team and across the business.

Achievements and responsibilities: • Responsible for the quality assurance of a large number of approved centres in the North of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.• Ensure quality standards are met in both the delivery of qualifications and skills assessments and independence and fairness of assessment is maintained.• Accurately reporting on centre performance and the risks associated with the centre’s activities. • Identifying any areas of non-compliance, high risk and development needs at centres, producing effective action plans and issuing sanctions where appropriate. • Carrying out investigative visits to centres.• Development of new Institute of the Motor Industry approved centres in Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

Blackburn, United Kingdom