On the move: the latest East Midlands hires

Nottingham-based environmental consultancy, EMEC,  has appointed Sally Harrison as its new client relationship lead.

With over 30 years of experience across a range of industries, including aerospace and pharmaceuticals, Harrison brings extensive expertise in supplier and key account management.

In her new role at EMEC, she will serve as the primary contact for clients, leading client relationship management to support EMEC’s ecological consultancy, project management, and land management services.

Harrison said “I am really looking forward to working within a strong, friendly and supportive team. I am in awe of the work undertaken by EMEC colleagues and the positive impact this has directly on our local environment and via the work of the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.”

EMEC, consultancy director, Dr Ed Tripp said: “Sally’s wealth of experience in Client Relationship roles will be a tremendous asset to EMEC. As we continue to grow, it’s important to work closely with our clients to evolve the services we offer, and Sally’s expertise will be invaluable in helping us achieve that.”

Provider of innovative product solutions PermaGroup has boosted its restructured commercial team with the appointment of five team members.

John O’Connor, Adam Walker, Thom Brown and Craig Batton have all joined as technical specification managers, while Jamie Eliades has been appointed as area sales manager covering East Anglia.

The new appointments signal PermaGroup’s continued trajectory of growth and success following the appointment of group head of sales, Steve Greaves, earlier this year, and in under four years the commercial division of the business has grown.

PermaGroup commercial team

With more than 30 years in the industry O’Connor brings with him a wealth of roofing knowledge, including expertise in both flat and pitched roofing, while Walker has worked in the industry for the last ten years, building valuable relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including architects, building surveyors, local authorities and roofing contractors.

New area sales manager Eliades has hopes to manage a team of her own at PermaGroup and to pass on her 20 years’ worth of knowledge and experience, and is looking forward to immersing herself into learning more about EDPM products.

Having spent a large portion of his career working in interiors for large national brands, Brown has ambitions to grow PermaGroup at scale and to continue to develop his existing industry relationships, while Batton is keen to learn from his new colleagues to build on his ten years of roofing knowledge in both supply and installation.

Greaves said: “Building our restructured commercial team has been a very rewarding process, and each of our new recruits brings something different to their role. It’s an exciting time of change for the business and it was the right time to expand on the foundations we had in the commercial division by solidifying our dedicated team in that area of the business. Commercial roofing is central to our overall growth and development, and our team is looking forward to working together to achieve strong results.

“Our company culture at PermaGroup is very important, and we’ve had fantastic feedback from the newer members already, which is extremely encouraging. We always want our people to feel valued, so to hear that our new team members are settling in well and are enjoying their work is all we can ask for.”