This week’s Yorkshire appointments

This week’s round up of Yorkshire appointments includes Wake Smith, Multitask Personnel, Journey Further, NatWest, and ResQ. Read on to find out more.

Stephanie Chung - Wake Smith

Sheffield’s Wake Smith has boosted its busy private client team with the appointment of experienced solicitor Stephanie Chung.

Stephanie joins the established 8-strong team lead by director and head of department Suzanne Porter and is hoping to take advantage of her language skills to further links in the city.

Alongside her day to day role advising on Wills, Trust and Probate matters, Wake Smith hopes that as a fluent Cantonese speaker she can offer high quality legal advice to the growing Chinese community in Sheffield.

Stephanie said: “As a firm rooted in Sheffield, Wake Smith has acknowledged the need to offer quality advice to the Chinese community in Sheffield. Elderly issues including mental capacity, Power of Attorney and Wills can be a sensitive issue within this group, so I am keen to get referrals and show how Wake Smith can help.

“This is a really strong, enthusiastic team with some fantastic initiatives going on and long standing links to Sheffield. I have previously worked with two team members here already, Colleen Dooney and Annie Wright, and am really looking forward to teaming up with them again, and developing my role further.”

Suzanne Porter added: “Stephanie is a valuable appointment to our team and her dual language skills are an additional asset to Wake Smith.”

Stephanie joins from a niche private client practice in Sheffield where she assisted clients with estate administration, Inheritance Tax Planning, Wills and Powers of Attorney matters.

She completed a law and French degree at the University of Birmingham, and passed the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the College of Law in Birmingham before qualifying in 2010.

Wensdy McMillan - Multitask Personnel

Multitask Personnel, the Rotherham based specialist recruitment consultancy, has appointed a new recruitment consultant as they continue to strengthen their business support team.

Wensdy McMillan joins the company after previous roles within recruitment and management to work alongside the Business Support Division at Multitask Personnel.

In her new position as recruitment consultant, she will be finding and attracting the right candidates for roles and clients as well as looking after some of Multitasks key account customers, ensuring their recruitment requirements are fulfilled whilst delivering excellent service.

Wensdy commented: “I am delighted to have joined the team at Multitask Personnel, working with like minded and supportive people. Prior to my post here, I have worked within customer services in contact centres which lead to management roles. At this point I decided to complete my level 3 in CIPD so I could take my first step into recruitment.

“Having worked in many different sectors, it feels like the right fit joining the busy recruitment team at Multitask Personnel.”

Claire Lee, managing director at Multitask Personnel comments: “We have started 2022 as we mean to go on, and I am delighted that we are continuing with our own personal recruitment expansion here at Multitask Personnel with the appointment of Wensdy.”

Claire continued: “Wensdy joins a team of recruiters who specialise in corporate and commercial support roles, who offer temporary, contract, and permanent recruitment services. They provide recruitment support to Office roles and those within Leadership and Management.”

Thierry Ngutegure - Journey Further

Journey Further has appointed Thierry Ngutegure as head of insight. Thierry departs his role as head of data insights at Rise at Seven to join the performance marketing agency at its Leeds HQ.

Thierry’s brief is to grow Journey Further’s data function into a market-leading insights offering, which will integrate across the agency’s brand, creative and digital channel teams. Thierry will work closely with recently appointed Chief Strategy Officer, James Addlestone, and Executive Creative Director, Ben Ducker.

Thierry Ngutegure, head of insight at Journey Further, said: “I’m excited to bring a fresh, creative and diverse approach to Journey Further’s insights proposition. I’ll be building on the incredible work the team has cultivated, using data to build and supercharge the world’s leading brands.”

James Addlestone, chief strategy officer at Journey Further, said: “A market-leading insights offering is essential to further develop our strategic capability to create the performance brands of tomorrow. I’m very excited to have Thierry on board to help grow the proposition, and continue Journey Further’s rapid growth.”

James Hood - LCF Law

Yorkshire law firm LCF Law has appointed James Hood as head of IT. The appointment follows significant investment in digital technology at the firm.

James, who has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, has headed up the IT functions at well-known legal and accountancy firms in Yorkshire, as well as spending most of his early career in a managed services environment, which has helped him to drive a customer-centric focus to the services he delivers.

James said: “Having worked in the managed IT services sector for many years, predominantly with professional services firms as my bread-and-butter client base, I found that I really enjoyed working in the legal sector.

“When the role at LCF Law came up, it felt like a great fit for me. The team are a really friendly group of people, and I was keen to join a firm that is forward thinking and open to new ideas, as well as striving for excellence, when it comes to finding new and innovative ways to utilise technology to deliver a first-class service to its clients, all while maintaining a secure and resilient environment for all confidential data.”

Just over a year ago LCF Law made a significant investment in moving to cloud technology.

James added: “The legal sector is inherently cautious and has therefore lagged behind other sectors when it comes to embracing the cloud. LCF Law carefully considered the move and made the substantial investment in late 2020, which enabled the firm to outsource its core hardware infrastructure in its entirety, in addition to front-line IT services and focus more on projects and value-added work that will benefit its teams, its clients and the business.”

James will lead a team of four who are currently working on a significant pipeline of projects that covers everything from business improvement to managed print and electronic document workflow systems, management information reporting, Microsoft Teams telephony and collaboration, digital client onboarding and much more.

Simon Stell, managing partner at LCF Law, said: “James will help to maximise our return on our recent IT investment, and will maintain our position at the forefront of our industry by spearheading a number of exciting business improvement projects. Our IT team are a major asset that can help us to realise our strategic growth plans and James will be instrumental in this.”

Charlie Tunnard - NatWest

NatWest has appointed Charlie Tunnard to the role of Local Enterprise Manager for the South Yorkshire region.

In his new role, Charlie will serve as a local connector for area SMEs working with local communities to support entrepreneurs and businesses develop and grow.

This involves signposting to local activities as well as NatWest programmes such as Business Builder – a tailored support programme for new and early-stage businesses looking to grow.

Charlie has more than 10 years of experience of working in the banking and finance sector. Most recently he has worked as a branch manager at NatWest’s Sheffield City Centre branch. He also has a Professional Banker Certificate from the Chartered Banker Institute.

Charlie said: “Starting up a business and being an entrepreneur can be a lonely world, and I am there to create that support channel as I will be working alongside local businesses and the wider ecosystem.

“We know there are some great services and programmes available across South Yorkshire, and I want to create partnerships across the area which enable businesses to succeed.”

Clive Burnham - ResQ

ResQ, the leading outsourced contact centre specialist, has announced the appointment of Clive Burnham as business development director.

Clive will focus on further developing new partnerships within vertical markets including energy, telecoms and financial services, and play an integral role in delivering the growth aspirations of the business.

ResQ’s chief commercial officer, Matt Marshall commented: “It’s great to have Clive on board. His expertise and knowledge of the BPO market will undoubtedly bolster our new business efforts as we continue to grow.”

Clive is a seasoned sales leader with over 15 years’ experience in the BPO market. His previous roles have been focused on winning, managing and growing client accounts across a wide range of vertical sectors including manufacturing, technology and financial services.

Clive added: “My passions are service, team spirit, loyalty and exceeding expectations. The more I learnt about ResQ, the more I realised this was a perfect match. The business has a great catalogue of customers – this is down to a first-class operations team that are focused on performance, employee engagement and the best returns for their customers.

“Everyone I have had contact with thus far have been friendly, courteous and praiseworthy of ResQ as a great place of work. It’s safe to say I am excited for the journey ahead and I’m looking forward to meeting all of the teams and achieving our goals together.”

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