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Management Services Spring 2012
IMS Certifi cate
The top of the tree for the IMS Certifi cate S
cott-Grant Training is delighted to announce that Andrew Denton is the Student of the Year for 2011.
Andrew is a Financial Planning Assistant at Shop Direct Group, the online and home shopping retailer whose brands include Littlewoods. He started his career with Littlewoods 32 years ago on the shop fl oor, picking and packing, then moved into a supervisory role, leading a team of 25 in the picking department. The restructuring of the company and a lifetime enjoyment of facts and fi gures led Andrew to a new role in the fi nancial planning department.
His new manager, Beverley Calderbank – herself an IMS member for several years – encouraged him to study for the IMS Certifi cate as part of his personal and professional development. Andrew’s work involves helping create budgets for Shop Direct so he needed to get an insight into how targets are created and how costs are generated. “I really enjoyed the course,” he said enthusiastically. “It was interesting and challenging – I found SMVs fascinating! I am now confi dent I can thoroughly examine and assess the cost-effectiveness of a project.”
Planning Manager Bev was delighted: “We’re extremely proud of Andrew’s achievement. Having the Student of the Year in the Planning Department has
The Students of the Year celebrate success: (left to right) Ian Burton, Richard Taylor, Joe Wildblood, Mike Seaman, Andrew Denton, David Blanchfl ower from the IMS, Ian Crossley and Colin Moran
given us tremendous kudos! “Seriously, I know just how challenging the IMS Certifi cate is and Andrew has worked extremely hard to be in that number one spot in 2011.” In his introductory
welcome to the celebration in Manchester, Scott-Grant’s MD Richard Taylor explained: “We have trained people in the IMS Certifi cate during 2011 from all types of companies: manufacturing, retail, distribution, automotive, fi nancial, commercial and in several countries. They are all experiencing cost pressures and are looking to improve their productivity like never before. “It’s heartening that their focus is now once again on industrial engineering and lean techniques to enable them to reduce costs, improve
performance, response times and processes. We’re delighted to help them do this via our open and in-company training. “The contract and project people we continue to supply are also in signifi cant demand across the UK and overseas.” Tying for second place in a close run ‘contest’ were three students: Ian Crossley, a Senior Process Manager from Pentland Distribution Services based in Blackburn; Joe Wildblood, Operations Review Manager from Parcelforce Worldwide (who was accompanied by his manager Eddie McBride from Glasgow); and Ian Burton, Operations Support Manager from Norbert Dentressangle Logistics UK (NDL). All the students confi rmed that they had found the course challenging and intensive
at times, but thoroughly enjoyable for many reasons, not least for the lecturer Colin Moran whose practical experience, informal style and enthusiastic delivery are particularly appreciated. Indeed, Ian Burton from NDL thanked Colin for ‘an entertaining four weeks’, adding that, since the course, his new knowledge ‘has opened up opportunities to work on projects in other parts of the business’. Mike Seaman, Training and
Technical Director of Scott- Grant, said it was impossible to separate the three people in the fi nal analysis and that they should all be very proud of their ‘tremendous achievement’ in attaining such a standard in their professional qualifi cation.
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