Gill Taylor joins senior leadership team at AIM-listed Park Group Plc from Ombudsman Services

Taylor will align Park Group’s range of change initiatives to help deliver its future business model, support its people and strengthen its processes

Transformation and change specialist Gill Taylor has joined the senior leadership team at Park Group Plc – the UK's leading multi-retailer redemption product provider to corporate and consumer markets.

Gill joins as Chief Transformation Officer from not-for-profit organisation Ombudsman Services in Warrington, Cheshire, and brings a wealth of experience of corporate strategy, change management, culture development and transformation in financial services, more recently with Bank of America in Chester.

The appointment comes as Park Group announces plans to move its core business to new offices at 20 Chapel Street in the heart of Liverpool – the biggest city property deal so far in 2019 – as part of its ambitious plans for growth and expansion.

Under the company’s new strategic plan, it will separate its Birkenhead-based hampers business and drive product and customer innovation through digital technologies.

Gill will work horizontally across all of Park Group’s business lines, and lead the company’s strategic change team and report directly to CEO, Ian O’Doherty.

Ian O’Doherty, Group Chief Executive, said:

“We’re undergoing a period of significant change in order to create a dynamic and progressive financial services business anchored on digital. Critical to this is ensuring that everything fits together and we’re aligned, and Gill will be central to us achieving that.

“We’re delighted to have Gill on board at Park, not only because of her experience and class-leading knowledge around change, but also her ability to unify teams under a common set of values – a culture – that helps to drive it and bring people along on the journey.”

Gill Taylor, Chief Transformation Officer, said:

“I’m inspired by the enthusiatic, loyal and driven team we have at Park, which not only cares about making this business a continued success, but is ambitious for the future and wants to realise all the opportunities we have.

“Under Ian’s leadership and the new strategic plan, we have a clear vision and direction, which makes the opportunity to deliver truly transformational change at Park incredibly engaging, exciting and rewarding.

“It feels like a seminal moment for the company. With the right focus and talent, and through the smart delivery of our change initiatives, we can build an organisation that is fit for the future creating and delivering value for all our stakeholders.”