{"id":112739,"date":"2022-07-04T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=112739"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:44:44","slug":"places-for-people-group-partnerships-director-steve-ashton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/places-for-people-group-partnerships-director-steve-ashton\/112739\/","title":{"rendered":"Places for People appoint Steve Ashton as first Group Partnerships Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/placesforpeople.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Places for People<\/a> has appointed Steve Ashton as its first ever Group Partnerships Director, who will lead the group&#8217;s strategy for mergers, acquisitions, contract negotiations and group-level partnerships<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steve Ashton has been appointed as Group Partnerships Director with over 20 years&#8217; experience of\u00a0partner management in regulated sectors, and will also lead the development of best practice in partnership management, contract negotiation and contract management across the group companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Head of Partnership at MBNA\/Bank of America, Steve managed relationships with some of the world\u2019s biggest brands and then at HomeServe UK, where he became chief partnerships officer, Steve was responsible for developing and leading strategic partnerships with organisations such as Aviva, Eon and Severn Trent Water. Steve also led acquisitions for HomeServe UK.<\/p>\n<h3>Ensuring all the right dots are joined across partnership engagement<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on Steve\u2019s appointment, Greg Reed, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/women-into-trades\/99523\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Places for People<\/a>, said: \u201cSteve is a great hire for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He will be the go-to person for partnerships in the organisation. There is some great practice being undertaken right now, some great examples of excellent work, and Steve will add his experience and expertise to this to ensure that we are joining all the dots right across Places for People and that in all our partnership engagement, we\u2019re operationally efficient and we\u2019re maximising all our opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Places for People has appointed Steve Ashton as its first ever Group Partnerships Director, who will lead the group&#8217;s strategy for mergers, acquisitions, contract negotiations and group-level partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[283,661,592],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-finance","8":"tag-hr","9":"tag-skills"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Places for People appoint Steve Ashton as first Group Partnerships Director<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Places for People has appointed Steve Ashton as Group Partnerships Director, who will lead the group&#039;s strategy for mergers and contract negotiations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/places-for-people-group-partnerships-director-steve-ashton\/112739\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Places for People appoint Steve Ashton as first Group Partnerships Director\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Places for People has appointed Steve Ashton as its first ever Group Partnerships Director, who will lead the group&#039;s strategy for mergers, acquisitions, contract negotiations and group-level partnerships\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/places-for-people-group-partnerships-director-steve-ashton\/112739\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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