Mark Challoner

Chief of Staff – Orange Global Solutions for Business at Orange Business Services

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

About

Self-motivated, reliable, mobile individual with a proven track record of telecommunications, manufacturing, financial and business management experience. Seeking a senior management position within the international customer service domain with view to tackling commercial, operational & financial challenges to positively impact company results. Also strongly interested in opportunity to manage an M&A project and diversity that goes with such a project. Specialties: Management & Delivery of Large Outsourcing Contracts People & Performance Management Financial Management (P&L) Risk / compliance management Quality (ISO 9001 Certification - Lead Auditor qualification IQA – IRCA) Management Process Reengineering & Continuous Improvement Methodologies BI System Implementation & Management

Experience

  • Orange Business Services (18 yrs 6 mos)
    • Chief of Staff – Orange Global Solutions for Business
      Dec 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

      Member of the management team working across the Global Solutions Division (2100 employees, 6bn turnover) to improve overall efficiency, performance, visibility & action taking around key strategic activities. Such activities include bedding down of new organization, financials, business priorities & overall transformation initiatives required to take Global Solutions where it needs to be for essentiel2020.  Setting & monitoring of key divisional business priorities with team  External & internal communications for OGSB head on OBS strategy & solution roadmap  Change catalyst around new ways of working / agility / valueway techniques  Team steering for greater collaboration / teamworking / reduced silos for one team  OGSB profitability initiatives (incl. NRS)

    • Head of Global Performance Management – ID ITS Division
      Sep 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Tasked as a change catalyst to bring more structure/visibility & focus to the ID ITS division. Focusing on key transformation programs, budget prioritization & business partner alignment to meet the internal & external needs of the company/customers  Fully aligned management team around strategic priorities, roadmap & associated budgets  Successfully defined & piloted the new Demand Management process for network service requests with management decision to extend to all services.  2014 budget reduced by 10% vs. 2013 with full sign-off from stakeholders but with a continued focus on corporate strategies: Product Development, Digital, Security etc...

    • International Account (ABU) Director
      Feb 2010 - Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Responsible for the international part of a very large (>100M over 5 years) outsourcing contract for one of the major french banks. This role requires managing the successful implementation & transformation of all contractual engagements associated with the delivery of data, fixed voice & mobile solutions across 9 countries currently covered within the scope.

  • Equant S.A. (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Manager - Business Profitability & Analysis (Finance)
      Jan 2005 - Dec 2007 · 3 yrs

      Responsible for providing the executive management team with visibility of opportunities to improve customer satisfaction, grow revenues and reduce overall cost. Managing a team across the international domain, working closely with divisional heads and product marketing to analyse and monitor performance and report across key strategic areas both at the operational and profitability level. - Identified cost saving opportunities in excess of $20m (e.g. on-time order delivery, Network Operator circuit provisioning/circuit disconnections and customer change management billing) - Successfully delivered customer & product ‘Profit & Loss’ reporting for both the International and French domain - Provided product gross margin, unit cost and productivity visibility to profit & loss owners and product managers - Implemented activity vs budget (5th of Month) reporting to the Chief Financial Officier

    • Head of Performance Management & Benchmarking – Customer Service & Excellence
      Aug 2002 - Dec 2004 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Responsible for the central performance reporting team (23 people, $4m budget) with company-wide responsibility. Providing reports and trend analysis to the divisional teams with view to identifying weaknesses and taking appropriate corrective actions based on root cause analysis. - Steered company focus towards a customer oriented reporting culture not solely network - Defined/deployed reporting standards and implemented periodic performance reviews across divisional teams backed by target improvement plans - Instigated programme for large revenue ‘Top 100’ customers with performance issues - Managed the deployment of a corporate datawarehouse and Cognos BI software with view to reducing manual reporting activity - including training of IT and business end-users - Eliminated 40% of reports and associated headcount through centralisation ($300K)

    • Project Office Director (Equant / GlobalOne Merger)
      Apr 2001 - Jul 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Reporting to Senior Vice President of Network Finance & Business Management, successfully created the central Project Office structure (4 people). Project managed the overall merger activities between the Equant and GlobalOne organizations for the Customer Service & Network division, which accounted for 80% of total new company headcount and 65% of total cost. - Successfully merged two networks in a 15 month timeframe - Headcount reduced by 40% in one year (2000 reduction) - 40 customer service centers consolidated to 26 - $15m saving - Standard processes and CRM tool (Clarify) deployed worldwide - $100m taken out of initial $510m cost base within a 12 month perio - Customer service performance levels maintained throughout merger period

  • SITA EQUANT (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Project Manager – Major Service Center Development
      Jun 2000 - Mar 2001 · 10 mos

      Reporting to Vice President - Major Service Centre Development, responsible for project managing the design, build and initial operations of the Global Network Management Centre in Paris as well as the Global Provisioniong Centre in Nice. - Secured French Work Council approval to build centers & transfer 150 employees to new centre (7*24) - Successfully project managed centre build including: security back-up, power supplies, workstation design, IT equipment, network connectivity, staff moves, 3rd party management - Completed project 2 months ahead of schedule; overall spend 14% below budget $4.3m

    • Senior Consultant - Business Process Reengineering
      Jul 1998 - Jul 2000 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      A member of the Business Process Analysis & Reengineering team, reporting to the Senior Director. Responsible for re-focusing the company along a process centered customer service organisation. - Created/facilitated a company-wide customer service Change Management programme - Help Desk consolidation programme (160 customer service centers worldwide to 50) - Defined & implemented standard fault management processes worldwide - Selected & deployed (N. America) of CRM tool (Clarify) to replace existing tools

  • Production & Systems Manager at WACE Group PLC
    Sep 1995 - Jun 1998 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Managing operational aspects of the Textile and Point of Sale printing business. Responsible for implementing a fully controlled quality system (ISO-9001) and reducing overall operational costs. - Reengineered the dispatch process for Point of Sale (ASDA) - 100% of ASDA packs leaving dispatch bay on time with virtual elimination of over-time - Damaged goods reduced from 20% to < 5% with 10% reduction in production run size - Successfully implemented/obtained ISO 9001 certification for the two UK company sites - Delivered £30K savings from improved ink management - Achieved 50% reduction in screen damage & 10% reduction in print rejects