City Plumbing, part of Highbourne Group, has appointed Liz Taylor as its new chief commercial officer.

Joining the senior leadership team, she will be instrumental in driving momentum across all its branch-managed channels, including its leading renewables business.

City Plumbing recently opened a new branch in Bristol with bathroom showroom and renewables area.

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Liz Taylor joins Highbourne Group with more than 20 years of commercial experience, bringing a retail perspective, joining the company from Morrisons where she was commercial director.

Prior to joining Morrisons, Taylor spent over eight years at Marks & Spencer and nine years at Asda.

Throughout that time, she has built up experience in strategic supply base planning; managing complex and high turnover categories to deliver commercial and operational benefits through customer-focused and data-led decision making.

Reporting into Taylor will be commercial director Dominic Sarkar; managing director of The Bathroom Showroom Steve Smith; and managing director of Renewables, Electrical and Site Temp. Hemal Morjaria.

While Liz Taylor will report directly to Highborne Group’s CEO, Dave Evans.

Dave Evans said: “Within a challenging market backdrop, across the Highbourne Group, we continue to make great progress on our core strategic initiatives whilst taking market share across all sectors.

“Liz joining our leadership team will add further impetus to this momentum, and I look forward to working with her and utilising her fabulous commercial experience and skills.”

Liz Taylor commented on her new role: “I’m looking forward to joining the Highbourne Group and being part of an organisation with a clear strategy in place, working towards some ambitious goals.

“I’m delighted to be a part of the team that will strengthen Highbourne Group’s offering, and using the experience I’ve gained over the years, meet the complex and ever-changing requirements of its vast customer portfolio.”