A SCOTS Full-service authorized agency Gilson Grey has promoted Vanessa Kennedy to director of promoting and enterprise growth, after heading up the advertising and marketing division for the previous six years.
The newly created put up, which merges management of the 2 features, will see Vanessa take accountability for all of Gilson Grey’s advertising and marketing and enterprise growth actions, overseeing a workforce of 5.
Vanessa has 26 years’ expertise in company advertising and marketing and beforehand held roles at corporations together with PwC, Axcess Monetary Europe and Macdonald Inns earlier than becoming a member of Gilson Grey in 2017.
In her new place, she is going to drive the event of the agency’s regional providing, in addition to assist to introduce new service traces in key areas.
Throughout her time on the agency, Vanessa has supported the fast progress technique which has seen Gilson Grey develop throughout Scotland and into England via a mixture of natural progress and a collection of strategic acquisitions.
The agency now has workplaces in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, East Lothian, Dundee and Lincoln and its headcount has elevated from 60 to round 350.
Vanessa stated: “Over the previous six years I’ve actually acquired to know the assorted groups and specialists throughout our totally different workplace areas and, with this new remit, I’m trying ahead to working with all of them to make a good larger influence.
“Advertising and marketing and enterprise growth go hand-in-hand, so it is sensible to have joint oversight of each areas.
“This subsequent chapter is about constructing on what has been achieved to date by way of progress, and I’m trying ahead to main a revamped technique that may take Gilson Grey even additional.
“My workforce may even be increasing, and shortly we might be bringing in a brand new enterprise growth supervisor to assist that.”
Glen Gilson, chairman and managing accomplice of Gilson Grey, added: “Vanessa has performed an essential function within the supply of the agency’s model so far.
“Increasing her duties to incorporate the oversight of our enterprise growth exercise is an thrilling transfer for each the agency and Vanessa’s profession.
“Consolidating advertising and marketing and enterprise growth beneath single stewardship and increasing the assets inside that workforce ought to assist additional and coordinate Gilson Grey’s fast progress throughout the UK.
“We’re all about expertise and it’s nice to see one among our key directorships progressing on this method.”
