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Mark GoodladMG

Mark Goodlad

Programs, Projects and Business Transformations

€1,000/day
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Mark

Available to work either remotely or on-site across the UK and Switzerland.

Delivering robust, scalable technology solutions and business change on time and within budget - my value lies in an ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution ensuring timely, transparent communication and goal alignment from the c-suite to the operational teams.

Bringing over two decades of hands-on experience in driving change initiatives of all sizes:
- from start-ups and smaller team-centric, focussed changes that improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness,
- to multimillion-dollar ERP implementations, system integrations, and digital transformations across diverse global enterprises.

Experience of using agile, waterfall and hybrid-delivery methodologies, ensuring successful deployments and effective change management across complex organizational structures (internal teams, external business partners and 3rd party technology solution providers) and global cultures (US, Europe, India)

With expertise in end-to-end solution architecture and process design across critical domains,
- Consumer Goods: Retail, Wholesale, HR, Tax, Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, and Warehousing and
- Wealth Management: front, middle, back offices, compliance and investment bank integration.

Coupled with an understanding of both the technology (change and support) needs and business needs, enabling me to quickly assimilate new and diverse industry contexts and business cultures to 'get up to speed as fast as possible'.

My leadership extends to building and mentoring high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams, including project managers, business analysts, testing, QA, release management and building support organisations / competency centres, across both on-shore and off-shore models.

Ultimately a practical hands-on approach to delivering the work, identifying and communicating risks, and resolving issues in a timely manner gets the job done!
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km), Glasgow (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Cogience
    Project Development Lead
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2024 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
    Switzerland
    In the evolving AI-supported workplace: responsible for the research and development, using generative AI and LLMs, to automate the construction, coding and output validation of economic models, through training, fine-tuning, and prompt-structuring
    AI Automation
  • Cogience
    Program and Project Delivery Lead and Co-founder
    TECH
    September 2017 - Today (8 years and 11 months)
    Geneva, Switzerland
    Co-founder of a start-up consulting organisation, focussed on the delivery of business and process transformations across industries:
    - Leading the program and project definition/initiation and operational delivery of the supporting business and technology transformations
    Business development Business plan Project Management Start-up
  • Ralph Lauren
    Program and Project Lead: Tax and Technology (SAP) Transformation
    LUXURY GOODS
    September 2017 - November 2019 (2 years and 2 months)
    London, United Kingdom
    Responsible for the delivery of the restructuring program converting the European business from Commissionaire to Limited Risk Distributor model.
    • Working with the Tax, Legal, IT teams and external advisors, successfully transitioned 19 operating companies
    • Implemented a transfer pricing model including the end-to-end business process and systems changes needed to automate the transfer of goods and inventory accounting to fulfil local statutory reporting obligations and corporate consolidation requirements.
    Project Management Change and Transformation Management

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Education

  • Mathematics and Computer Science
    University of York
    1992
    BSc Mathematics and Computer Science

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