Having studied Business Management with Communications at the University of Birmingham, my first appointment was with a local family owned business in Shrewsbury. It was a great opportunity to really cut my teeth and jump into the real world of work, starting as the Group Communications Executive I was exposed to the whole business and learnt from the ground up.

I guess it’s when you are not looking that something comes along and that’s what happened to me. I’d been in my role for a year when an opportunity for a 12 month secondment with One Stop (a subsidiary of Tesco) was advertised internally. I had the sponsorship from my manager who was really supportive and thought it would be a great opportunity to stretch myself and step up into a management role within my field of expertise - I applied.

So here I am six months later, I moved back to Shropshire and work flexibly between here and our offices in Walsall. I’ve taken all the knowledge and experience gained at Tesco with me, learnt and developed a whole new set of skills and really immerged myself and got under the skin of the convenience market.