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News Release from: Axis Electronics
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Team on 02 March 2007
New appointments at electronics company
Electronics firm makes a raft of significant management appointments from inside and outside of the company.
Axis Electronics has made a raft of significant management appointments from inside and outside of the company Nikki Hillson becomes Sales Manager after eight years at the company which has seen her move up the ranks through buyer, senior buyer and purchasing manager
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"When I first joined there were just two of us working as buyers; by the time I was managing the department I had an excellent team of twelve".
"It just shows how quickly Axis is growing", she says.
Managing such accelerated growth could have been quite daunting, but Hillson impressed in taking control of supplier management, cost reduction and material procurement.
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"It's hard for anyone outside the industry to imagine the violent fluctuations in the market where materials are concerned", she says.
"It's a constant challenge making sure everything gets to us on time".
"I've always had some contact with customers so moving over to sales seems quite a logical step".
"I love it here".
"It's a privilege to work for a market leader that is progressive and offers such a high level of service and technological capability to its customers".
Although Hillson is a reasonably long-term product of the Axis stable, Chris Nye has been brought in from outside.
The new Materials Manager already has four years experience in the role, but like Hillson, his broader experience will stand him in great stead.
"After University I started as a buyer with a firm making set-top boxes".
"It was a great place to learn about the industry and while I was there I passed my CIPS qualification and moved on to senior buyer before taking another job as purchasing manager".
It was Nye's next career move which led him to the world of subcontract electronics, spending four years as a materials manager developing his employer's supply chain to add value and remove cost.
Nyehas big plans for applying the knowledge he has gleaned at Axis.
Thirty year old Howard Phillips has progressed from Production Manager to Line Manager.
With a fistful of GCSEs he joined the company aged 19 "I was so lucky to come here".
"There aren't many firms where I would have had the chance to make this kind of progress at my age".
Paul Tipping could so easily have been the one that got away if he hadn't made such a fantastic impression on the people at Axis when he came from an agency to perform a simple stock check.
"I was temping and was sent to Axis".
"When the stock check was finished I was all set to leave, but they asked me if I wanted to stay on and work in the accounts department".
"It was such a great piece of luck".
Tipping says he received tremendous training at Axis with one-to-one tuition from the in-house accountant and a self-study course for an AAT qualification.
From such unlikely beginnings he has become the Finance Manager with control over every aspect of company cash flow.
Tipping has also recently taken over as Human Resources Manager, a job he performs in tandem with his financial responsibilities".
""People and money - they couldn't be much less alike, and that's part of the challenge and excitement of my dual role", he says.
Axis Electronics Managing Director, Phil Inness, says: "We are proud to have such an impressive workforce here at Axis, and it's always tremendously satisfying when you can give someone a promotion that they've worked for and deserve".
"We're also not afraid to go outside to bring talent in when we need to, and the combination of the new and the home grown is an excellent blend".
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