Business Development Director
Lantra House, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, Cv8 2Lg
As Business Development Director at Lantra I was responsible for strategic business development as part of the leadership team, alongside the CEO and COO. I managed three departments; marketing, sales and a business unit, called Skills+ which is a software management package designed to enable the tracking and managing of training skills and run various agri-industry passport schemes.Lantra promotes skills development in the land-based and environmental sector across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. As an awarding organisation and a sector skills council Lantra holds a unique position driving the skills agenda with a strong emphasis on designing awards that ensure the health and safety of those working in agriculture, horticulture and landscaping, game keeping, forestry, fisheries, fencing, animal care, plant operations and driving vehicles and attachments including lift trucks, tractors, 4x4 and other off road vehicles. Lantra also works with Highways England supporting the National Highways Sector Schemes in traffic management and fencing.While at Lantra I supported the charity's Board of Trustees including the recruitment of new blood into the Board. I successfully took an internal business unit through the ISO 27001, the Information Security Management standard and oversaw the migration of the Skills+ software to a new platform which involved close liaison with the IT department and external developers.