On the move: the latest East Midlands hires

Patrick Molyneux

Nottingham-headquartered national auctioneers John Pye & Sons has appointed Patrick Molyneux as its new B2B marketing strategist.

Molyneux will be responsible for driving B2B business from new and existing contacts and identifying new revenue streams from retailers, distributors and manufacturers. He will also be responsible helping promote news and wider developments within the business.

Molyneux brings over 16 years’ marketing experience to the firm, specialising in online and print creative, email campaigns, direct mail and print production within the financial services and retail sectors. His first major project will be overhauling the corporate website and supporting the business development team with helping potential customers understand the John Pye’s full offer.

He said: “I appreciate the benefits of working for a friendly, family-run business and have already developed strong relationships both within the firm and across our wider professional network. I am looking forward to further expanding that network and supporting the business in realising its ambitions for growth.”

Trevor Palethorpe, associate director at John Pye, added: “It’s great to have Patrick on board, especially with the level of skills and experience he brings from high-calibre businesses including Boots and Capital One.

“John Pye has enjoyed a sustained period of growth and this appointment is directly in line with our expansion plans as we look to build the B2B side of the business. We’re looking forward to what we can achieve together in the coming months.”

Rail depot maintenance firm MTMS has appointed its first mental health first-aider.

The company, based in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, has appointed Nicky Johnson to the role, the first of three mental

Nicky Johnson

health first-aider posts it intends to create this year.

Johnson, who works as a cost accountant at the firm, underwent her training for the role to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, while the company has also signed up the Railway Mental Health Charter, which was set up to promote, manage and support workforce mental wellbeing.

She said: “I’m usually the kind of person who gets on with things, so the training was a real eye-opener about how things that we might expect people to be able to brush off can have a significant effect on them.

“My role isn’t there to offer advice, what I do is listen and show them understanding before signposting them to services which might be able to help them further.

“None of us know what other people are going through and so having mental health first-aiders on hand could be a real lifeline to somebody. I’m already a trained medical first aider so this gives my role more scope and I hope that I can be of help in the future.”

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