With over 20 years’ experience in HR, Isobel Wallington joins the Group as its first dedicated HR Manager bringing extensive insight and knowledge across the full spectrum of personnel and related functions.
With a solid track record in manufacturing, she worked for Cummins Inc for nine years where she developed novel strategies and functionality across HR to drive unprecedented organisational productivity and growth along with leading three successful HR start-up programmes across UK, USA and Canada.
Joining Linear Group as HR Manager in early 2021, Isobel is responsible for the proactive operational management of all aspects of HR across the business. In this role she is focused on effective organisational development, training, employee engagement, performance management and employment law matters.
Alongside Isobel, IT expert Andrew MacLeod has joined the team from RedMosquito, the full spectrum managed IT services provider, as the Group’s inaugural IT Manager. No stranger to Linear Group, he provide expert technical and strategic support in overseeing the outsourced management of the Group’s IT at RedMosquito.
Joining Linear Group in 2021, Andrew is responsible for enhancing and evolving all aspects of IT provision, infrastructure and support across the business. This means ensuring optimal delivery and leading the digital development to scale alongside business growth and needs. This includes improvements to software packages within the business, ongoing digital roadmap and cyber security and compliance.
Commenting on the new appointments, Stephen Holmes, CEO of Linear Group, said, “As we continued to expand our operations across the UK, we recognised the need to explore the evolution of our in-house capability, which led us to make this significant appointments. Both Isobel and Andrew bring expertise and insight to the key areas of HR and IT which will have a major impact on business performance, management and efficiency moving forward. I am delighted to welcome them both and can already see the hugely positive and beneficial impact they are having on these vital business areas.”