New recruits join Chamber's international team

The Chamber 's international team has two new recruits, one of who has taken up a new role as international trade training manager.

Leah Quarmby (pictured) joins the Chamber after ten years working for another Chamber, where she began her term as an export documentation apprentice. After eight years, she was promoted to supervisor, before leaving for pastures new.

She said: “The role of International trade training manager appealed to me as I have always loved the training side of export.

“Whilst still keeping a hand in documentation I can really focus on some of my passions, I love liaising with our customers and finding out how we can help them, helping them get the best knowledge to add to their role in the ever changing international world is job satisfaction.

“Working with customers and being able to provide them with a service that helps them is my main goal. I want to dive in to my new role, challenge myself and get the best results possible for our customers and for the Chamber. ”

Before launching her career in international trade, Leah worked in retail and worked as the manager of a busy concession department at a high-street store.

The other new starter is Sarah Barton, who has joined the Chamber 's documentation team. Sarah started her working life as a trainee in an office and then moved to steel stockholder Righton Ltd, where she moved up the ladder into the sales team.

She spent 17 years at Righton, dealing with products exported to the Middle East for use in the shipbuilding industry.

After Righton, she worked as a purchasing administrator for Waterbury Bathroom Accessories, buying these items from China for use in new build and refurbished hotels and pubs.

She said: “With leaving the EU, I knew it would be a challenging and exciting time and I could bring some exporting knowledge to the documentation team, who I had previously dealt with as a customer. ”

Sarah is due to become certified in export documentation this Spring.

Chamber international director Mandy Haque said: “Despite Covid, it 's been a busy time for the documentation team, not least because of the demands of Brexit.

“Both and Sarah and Leah will be a big help in the coming months as we seek to both help businesses with the processing of their export documentation, be it issuing certificates or origin and carnets but also training them to be able to apply for the correct documents in the first place. ”