Ford’s managing director Lisa Brankin has taken on the extra position of chairing its UK operations.

She succeeds Tim Slatter who has been promoted to a world US-based Ford position as lead UK government overseeing all amenities and funding and persevering with to run the UK and Irish gross sales and companies enterprise.

“I sit up for constructing on Tim’s sterling efforts creating and selling Ford’s UK expertise and industrial footprint to draw additional funding and development momentum behind the all-electric future for the corporate, its workers and sellers,” mentioned Brankin, who will proceed to be primarily based on Ford’s Dunton Campus.

Ford’s Dunton and Halewood centres develop and manufacture electrical powertrains for its automobile and van ranges. The Dagenham property is strategically sited on the Thames Estuary for the import and export of automobiles and parts, together with engines to Turkey and different abroad prospects.

Dunton can be the worldwide residence of the Transit model and European lead location for the Ford Professional industrial car enterprise unit. Following the launch of the E-Transit final yr, the medium E-Transit Customized and compact E-Transit Courier have been introduced – additionally obtainable as people-carrying Tourneo variations.

The brand new Ford Kuga plug-in electrical car is due subsequent yr, in addition to the Ford Explorer and Ford Puma electrical automobiles, to be adopted by a medium sport crossover.

With a complete UK workforce numbering over 6,000 workers, Ford of Britain and Eire’s different workers are situated at its Daventry Elements Distribution Centre; Sensible Mobility Lab in East London; Southampton Transport Operations; and British and Irish gross sales headquarters in Dunton, Essex, and Cork.

Brankin has been MD of the Ford of Britain & Eire gross sales firm since November 2020. Earlier than she held a wide range of UK director positions, together with main the passenger car, gross sales and advertising and marketing areas. She joined Ford in 1990 as a graduate trainee.