Laurie Wills

Account Manager - Covers Mendip and Wiltshire

Laurie joined SS&L in June 2018, after six years’ experience of working within the education and learning industry including apprenticeships, adult learning and employability lead projects. Laurie is part of the employment engagement team and works with business’s across Somerset to support apprenticeship recruitment and upskilling for employed staff.

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Dave West

Head of Employer Engagement

Dave joined SS&L in 2017 after almost 15 years managing the commercial team in the West Country for Global, the media group behind Classic FM, Heart and Capital. With an accomplished background in managing client relationships and leading sales teams, Dave works with employers to help develop and grow their businesses through apprenticeships and staff training. Dave also leads our marketing team.

Mark Woods

Account Manager - Multiply

Mark joined SS&L in November 2022 having previously gained over 10 years Account Management experience in the Financial Services sector.  This included over 7 years working as a qualified Financial Adviser and 4 years in a Business Development role for a Financial Product Provider.  During this time, Mark, has built a wealth of experience building and managing client relationships, in order, to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.

At SS&L Mark works with employers to help develop and upskill staff numeracy skills and confidence, in relation to the new government Multiply Project.

Philippa Bancroft

Recruitment Adviser

Philippa joined the SS&L Employer Engagement Team in September 2022 after working for five years in recruitment and onboarding on the HPC project. Before this, she spent more than 14 years working for an NHS Trust where she was responsible for providing and managing a comprehensive administration service for a countywide clinical team. She has a wealth of experience in a broad range of administrative and customer service duties and enjoys sharing her existing knowledge, as well as learning new skills.

Pratiksha Sardar

Account Manager

Laura Batcha

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Laura Davie

Account Manager

Laura joined SS&L in July 2022, she has returned to the teaching and learning environment where for 13 years she worked with apprentices, schools, colleges and employers. Her positive approach enabled her to build and promote an all-inclusive supportive approach for the learner and the employer.

For the past 3 years Laura has worked as a Business consultant, working across Somerset and Wiltshire creating growing and maintaining partnerships.

She is excited and motivated to be working as part of the Employer Engagement Team at SS&L.

Rob Odams

Recruitment Outreach Co-ordinator

Rob has previously worked at Bridgwater and Taunton College in their Business Development team focussing on Business Development, employer engagement and apprentice recruitment.

Prior to this he was a year 5/6 primary school teacher working at 3 local primary schools.

Previous job roles have been managing the Taunton and West Somerset Children Centres and working at the West of England School and College for young people with little or no sight.

Rob is a unit who loves rugby having been a player, coach and spectator he also has a weakness for Hot Chilli Sauce, Beer and Heavy Metal music.