WBS Executive MBA Talent Profiles 2023

Mark Kirk linkedin.com/in/mark-kirk

Shubham Kochhar linkedin.com/in/shubhamkochhar ■ Career history: Manager - Strategy & IT Consulting, Cognizant, UK and Ireland

■ Career history: Program Director, MOOG Aircraft Group, UK Operations Performance Director, MOOG Inc, USA Program Manager, MOOG Aircraft Group, UK Program Manager, GE Aviation, UK

Senior Product Manager, BT Plc, UK Principal Consultant, Openreach, UK Senior Consultant - Digital, BT Plc, UK

■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, USA BEng (Hons), Aerospace Systems Engineering, Coventry University, UK

■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc (Hons), Digital Image & Signal Processing, University of Manchester, UK MEng (Hons), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

■ Nationality: British

■ Nationality: Indian

■ Languages:

■ Languages: Hindi (native) English (fluent)

English (native)

■ Career achievements: Managed full programme activity across a globally located (four continents) engineering team, to deliver key milestones over a three-year period. Enabled flight certification of new multi-axis fly-by-wire system to be completed and delivered on-time to achieve customer deadline. Successfully co-ordinated and led several complex flight control product transitions from initial UK/USA manufacturing centres to a long-term remote Philippine production site, to achieve required double digit cost optimisation gains, whilst maintaining 100% customer delivery needs. Drove a cross-functional production and engineering team to successfully recover and deliver production hardware – from On Time Delivery (OTD) of less than 15% to 100% OTD within five months. Maintained 100% OTD for customer programmes for more than 75 consecutive weeks.

■ Career achievements: Led the strategic development, management and execution of a £3 million launch of a new managed hybrid connectivity product for a large telecommunication service provider. The programme harmonised and optimised existing processes to deliver the product in record timescales. Led the execution of design strategy, implementation, and launch of a £4 million digital data platform for BT Enterprise. The product improved key KPIs such as reduction in customer churn by 30%, propensity to call by 40%, and increased sales by 20%. Won the UK IT Innovation Award. Led, defined and managed the execution of multiple successful digital transformation initiatives for a large Telco, media, higher education, and banking clients, to improve operational efficiency and business performance to drive business growth through competitive advantage.

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