Mark Talens serves as EVP and chief strategy and solutions officer at ParkourSC, where his role revolves around driving strategic product innovation, harnessing AI to redefine supply chain decision-making, and ensuring the company's solutions create meaningful, tangible impact for customers in pharma, life sciences, consumer goods, and beyond. Having transitioned from 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry to a high-growth Silicon Valley tech company, he bridges foundational supply chain expertise and domain knowledge with the fast-paced innovation of technology. He previously served as associate VP, global supply chain operations at Organon, where he enabled the supply chain to "noise cancel" 60-70% of exception signals; achieved a 20% improvement in firm horizon plan attainment and reduced reliance on costly air freight by shifting to ocean freight; and enabled teams to dedicate 20-30% more time to high-impact activities.
In the past year at ParkourSC, Talens spearheaded initiatives to scale the company’s solutions beyond pharma, extending to consumer goods and food and beverage industries; enhanced the company's AI-driven platform to deliver unprecedented visibility, predictability, and efficiency for customers with complex supply chains, such as managing 5,000-10,000 SKUs in pharma; and repositioned ParkourSC to focus on customer-centric tangible outcomes, helping customers unlock and capture value and adoption of transformational technology enablers like AI/ML on the holistic E2E supply chain.
Over the next 12 months, Talens is focused on expanding ParkourSC’s reach into adjacent industries like consumer goods and food and beverage, while maintaining excellence and leadership in life sciences; delivering measurable customer success through AI-driven outcomes, emphasizing trust, quality, and compliance in supply chain execution; and scaling innovation in cold chain management, operations planning, inventory optimization and making significant headway into autonomous operating supply chains.
We talked exclusively with Talens about AI-driven outcomes, scaling solutions to other markets and why the industry is in line to embark on a transformational journey.
