Richard Balshaw has returned to Toyota GB to tackle the brand new position of director of technique, enterprise transformation and folks.

For the previous 5 years Balshaw had been on secondment to Toyota Monetary Providers (UK) as improvement and mobility companies director and to KiNTO, the UK arm of Toyota’s worldwide mobility companies enterprise, as group vice chairman.

Balshaw joined Toyota (GB) in 1994 as an after gross sales space supervisor and went on to carry normal supervisor positions in lean operations, after gross sales and fleet and remarketing earlier than promotion to gross sales director in 2009.

He was subsequently director of Lexus GB, then director, Toyota GB buyer companies. 

He stated: “Having gained useful expertise in my work with TFS and KiNTO in the course of the previous 5 years, I’m trying ahead to creating a enterprise transformation technique to make sure Toyota (GB) and the broader Toyota group of corporations are finest positioned to maximise the alternatives that can come because the motor trade goes by means of a interval of unprecedented change and improvement.

“Our individuals can be a vital a part of that success and I’m dedicated to offering a place of job the place people can thrive and groups wish to come collectively and collaborate.”

He’ll work alongside Toyota GB’s new president and managing director Scott Thompson (pictured proper) to optimise the corporate’s future because the UK’s automobile markets grow to be more and more electrical automobile led.

Thompson, who took over the publish from Agustin Martin on January 1, was beforehand vice chairman, mobility, at KINTO, and previous to that headed Lexus in Australia, his residence nation. 

Final month Toyota revealed extra EVs that can increase its present vary, which is dominated by hybrids, to make sure it follows the UK’s ambitions and adheres with the ZEV Mandate.