The FINANCIAL -- Macdonald Hotels has
announced several personnel changes, including the arrival of several
new employees to the company and the departure of some existing staff
members.
Firstly, Fiona Raymen has made the decision to take on a much larger role in Edinburgh heading up a call centre operation for Johnstone Press. Fiona brought structure and measurement to CRO and Macdonald Hotels has wished her every success in her new role. Joan Adams, who has a background working for Thomas Cook, started on 11 June to continue the good work that Fiona started.
On 15 June, Pamela Robertson left the group to venture to new pastures, marketing the hire of formal wear. Pamela was a great asset to the marketing team over the last three years. Macdonald Hotels has thanked her for her contribution, wishing her all the very best in her new role.
To replace Pamela, the hotel group announced the appointment of Vanessa Kennedy, who joined the team on 11 June after having spent the last year at VisitScotland working as the Brand Partnership Manager. Previous to that, Vanessa worked 11 years at AVC Creative marketing agency in Aberdeen.
Macdonald hotels also announced the replacement of Alison Conroy in the position of Corporate Marketing Manager. Lindsay Crozier is set to start on Monday 2 July, having spent the last 14 months working in a sales role for FLOW hospitality, offering training to the hospitality industry. She previously held marketing roles with House of Fraser and Montpellier’s Group. Lindsay will take ownership of the Club loyalty scheme particularly to drive greater efficiencies and costs savings as well as supporting the company’s corporate and conference marketing plan.
According to WebWire, it has also been agreed that Esther Conn will focus her substantial expertise and energies in growing and developing Macdonald Hotels’ key corporate and conference accounts as well as travel trade. With Esther moving into this revised role as Head of Agency Sales and Travel Trade, the company is currently recruiting for Head of Sales to drive the overall sales strategy for the business as well as to take a much more active role in managing and developing the unit based and central sales teams. There has already been a lot of interest in this new role and Macdonald Hotels hopes to make an appointment in the coming weeks.
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