ACS reorganises commercial team

Will Nelson has been promoted to head of supplier relations, taking charge of recruitment and retention across all of supplier memberships, supported by Katie Noice as supplier relations manager, and Csaba Balla as supplier relations executive focusing particularly on club membership.

Sarah C Johnson has been promoted to head of retail membership, including her current events brief, supported by Viki Neaves as events executive.

ACS chief executive, James Lowman, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to be giving more responsibility to the excellent commercial team that has developed in recent years.

“Will, Sarah, Katie, Csaba and Viki have been instrumental in delivering a fantastic package of benefits to retailers and suppliers, and we are very excited about building on this as we get back to running face-to-face as well as online events in 2021.”

The new roles and responsibilities become formalised on 1 March 2021.

Current commercial director, Paul Chamberlain, will leave his post on 31 March 2021. Lowman added: “Paul has been an enormous part of our success since he joined us in 2006, and it is appropriate that part of his lasting contribution to ACS will be the development of this excellent team that will help shape the future of the organisation and the sector.”