Karl Whelpdale

Based out of the UK, Karl is Vice President Global Practice Strategy Lead for KellyOCG’s Contingent Workforce Outsourcing division. He is responsible for leading KellyOCG in the design and thought leadership of its Contingent Workforce products and solutions. Prior to this, Karl was Global Client Relationship Lead for BP, one of our largest and most prestigious MSP customers. Managing over a $1 billion in spend, he was responsible for providing global strategic account management as well as solution development and workforce consultative services across BP’s global operations. In addition, Karl was responsible for supporting the growth and development Global Solutions, and of the Natural Resource vertical across EMEA and Asia Pacific. 

With over 25 years’ spent designing, implementing, procuring and managing complex enterprise wide outsourced MSP and RPO solutions, Karl brings an extensive level of experience to the team particularly in the areas of defining successful stakeholder engagement models and maintaining productive executive level client relationships . This includes tenures in Procurement at Citigroup with regional responsibility for HR Services and Flexible Staffing across EMEA and APAC, as well as significant experience gained in the cultivation and development of productive strategic alliances and partnerships between global MSP and RPO organisations. 

In his time, Karl has been instrumental in the development of solutions for AT&T, Merrill Lynch, CSC, Travelport, Transport for London (TfL) and Citigroup to name but a few. He is an expert on guiding clients towards the consideration and adoption of “blended” solutions, that allow organisations to effectively attract, assess, select, deploy and manage resources globally, irrespective of whether their requirements fall into the permanent or temporary staffing areas.