Alumnus wins Consultant of the Year Award

Nottingham University Business School alumnus Mark Epps (BA Hons Management Studies, 2006) has won the coveted Management Consultancies Association (MCA) 'Consultant of the Year' award for 2016.

The awards, sponsored by The Times, recognise excellence in consultancy across 23 categories including thought leadership; change management; customer engagement; digital and technology; finance and risk management; innovation; international; performance improvement; people; social and environmental value; and strategy. Mark not only won the category award 'Performance Improvement Consultant of the Year' but was also one of the three prestigious overall award winners as 'Consultant of the Year', alongside ‘Project of the Year’ and ‘Best New Consultancy’.

Mark is a Senior Manager within Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations practice, and a leader within the Business Model Transformation team, focusing on performance improvement and transformation within the media sector, including business model transformation, enterprise cost reduction, process re-engineering, organisational design and people transition.

Since joining Deloitte in 2010, Mark has worked on some of the most complex and important business transformations across the media sector. He led an international programme to identify significant savings across a major European triple-play provider's entire business model. Using financial analysis and applying his knowledge of UK and international broadcasters, Mark challenged established practices and overcame stakeholder resistance to identify cost-reduction opportunities totalling several hundred million euros in just 12 weeks.

Mark went on to champion several of these opportunities through to implementation and benefit realisation, which, as well as cost reduction, resulted in increased on-screen quality. Leading a small team and working closely with the client, Mark established a new Production and Creative Hub as a shared service. This service brought together a number of seemingly disparate small channel teams of editors and graphic designers. Enabled by new processes, enhanced collaboration and greater sharing of resources, this newly formed matrix structure is now operating at significantly lower costs and is delivering greater on screen creativity.

Commenting on the key role of Consultants in shaping business organisations, Mark said: "Performance improvement and business transformation cannot be done from the wings of an organisation; you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and understand a client’s individual challenges from the inside out, while bringing in external ideas and experience."

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