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Lancashire enterprise IT specialist recruits as busy yr sparks progress

Smart IT from Kirkham, an Odoo partner, is adding four key positions to its headquarters.

Joch Robinson, Adrian Rigby and Lee Garner have all joined the functional advisory team at headquarters and Caroline Salazar-Atherton joins as a help desk analyst.

The new hires represent a 17 percent increase in the number of employees across the UK operations with the aim of filling another six positions by the end of the year.

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Kirkham’s Smart IT has expanded its team in response to increased demand. Pictured are Caroline Salazar-Atherton, Joch Robinson and Lee Garner

Despite the pandemic and global recession, Smart IT said 2020 had proven to be a strong trading year for its UK and North American operations and 2021 would continue on the same growth path.

Speaker Barry Bullen said, “We are committed to triple growth in five years and we are on the right track. 2021 promises to be another successful year for Smart IT.

“We continued to expand dynamically throughout 2020 and 2021 and gained new business. Today more than ever, companies understand how the decision for a cloud-based and modular ERP approach can increase the operational efficiency of their company with considerable flexibility. ”

He said the company’s success over the past 12 months sparked a recruiting campaign.

Joch Robinson, Senior Functional Consultant, was previously Implementation Manager at Fulfillmentcrowd. He was hired to gain best practice ERP implementation experience from a leading ERP provider on a number of extensive projects.

Adrian Rigby, functional consultant with more than 25 years of ERP experience, has expertise in delivering large scale implementations in FMCG retail, warehousing and e-commerce.

Lee Garner, Assistant Functional Consultant, is experienced in planning, developing and implementing proprietary software products and offers customer training.

Caroline Salazar-Atherton, Help Desk Analyst, has extensive experience in first and second level technical support and customer support.

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