{"id":80915,"date":"2020-08-13T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=80915"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:31:02","slug":"wates-appoints-new-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/wates-appoints-new-md\/80915\/","title":{"rendered":"Wates appoints new MD to its Smartspace division"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wates.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wates<\/a> has appointed Scott Camp as the new managing director of its \u00a3145m specialist fit-out and refurbishment division, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wates.co.uk\/services\/fit-out-refurbishment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wates Smartspace<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Scott Camp, currently the division\u2019s commercial director, was appointed after a competitive recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>He will take up the new role from 1 September, reporting to David Morgan, executive managing director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wates.co.uk\/services\/property-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wates Property Services<\/a> (WPS).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement forms part of a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/wates-organisational-changes\/79691\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes at the Wates Group<\/a>, which were launched last month as it restructures its operations to focus on the opportunities that lie ahead in its key markets.<\/p>\n<p>The restructure saw former Smartspace MD, Helen Bunch, take over the leadership of the Group\u2019s successful residential business and saw Smartspace become part of the WPS business.<\/p>\n<p>Camp joined Wates in 2002 as a project surveyor, having spent the previous six years at the specialist shop-fitting contractor, Plaza Interiors.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining Wates, he has held a number of positions within the business. In his most recent role as Smartspace\u2019s commercial director, he led a national team of 65 surveyors with great success.<\/p>\n<h3>Making best use of estates<\/h3>\n<p>Scott Camp, said:\u00a0\u201cThese are challenging times for our industry, but I believe Smartspace is uniquely positioned to find opportunities as customers review how they use their premises in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/offsite-construction-growth\/79331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post-pandemic environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmartspace has the flexibility to adapt and respond quickly to changing circumstances, and recent appointments to help Government departments reopen their premises on a Covid-secure basis have demonstrated how our teams can be trusted to work under pressure and in critical environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work across an enormous range of sectors right across the UK and are actively discussing with many of our customers how we can help them upgrade and make best use of their estates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to leading the business through this next, exciting stage of our development and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Morgan, executive MD, Wates Property Services, said: \u201cThe addition of Wates Smartspace to the WPS portfolio is a great boost to our business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Scott at the helm, I am confident that Smartspace will be able to take advantage of the synergies of being part of a wider organisation and build on our established relationships \u2013 particularly in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScott brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this role and I look forward to welcoming him to the senior management team.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wates has appointed Scott Camp as the new managing director of its \u00a3145m specialist fit-out and refurbishment division, Wates Smartspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[54592,882,276,661,592,1755],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-coronavirus","8":"tag-employment","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-hr","11":"tag-skills","12":"tag-wates"},"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>Wates appoints new MD to its Smartspace division<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wates has appointed Scott Camp as the new managing director of its \u00a3145m specialist fit-out and refurbishment division, Wates Smartspace\" \/>\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\/wates-appoints-new-md\/80915\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wates appoints new MD to its Smartspace division\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wates has appointed Scott Camp as the new managing director of its \u00a3145m specialist fit-out and refurbishment division, Wates Smartspace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/wates-appoints-new-md\/80915\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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