MITIE, the strategic outsourcing and energy services company, has teamed up with Cranfield School of Management, a world leader in management development and research, to provide its most promising senior operational managers with strategic business education. 

The FTSE250 company will launch the first Executive Development Programme at Cranfield this week, with an initial pilot of 24 senior managers. 

The development programme will target MITIE‟s most promising senior managers who have not previously received formal, post graduate business education. Approximately 100 people in total are expected to complete the programme between now and March 2013. 

The programme will be structured around two 2-day workshops with several „virtual‟ modules in between, running over a period of up to six months. The virtual modules will be a mixture of individual and team based projects. 

The programme will assist candidates in broadening their facilities management „mindset‟ and encourage wider awareness of collaborative business opportunities amongst senior management. The three principal areas that will be covered are account development and retention, margin development and leadership. 

Cranfield‟s Centre for Customised Executive Development has tailored this programme specifically to MITIE‟s needs, and will providing in-depth feedback to each individual candidate.

Katherine Thomas, HR Director for MITIE Group PLC, said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Cranfield on this programme We are confident that it will offer a key group of people across MITIE the opportunity to further their development, with the support of a globally renowned business school."

Bill Wilson, Executive Development Director in Cranfield‟s Centre for Customised Executive Development said: “We are delighted to be partnering with MITIE on this important development initiative. As MITIE continue to grow their business they have a requirement to grow the capability of their leaders. This programme will enhance their ability to delivery their current business objectives as well as prepare them for their future expanded roles.”

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Notes for editors

What is MITIE?
We’re the strategic outsourcing company. What does that mean in practice? We manage facilities, properties and assets for our clients across the UK and beyond.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy
+ Facilities and project management
+ Service delivery

Our strategic input can add value at the highest level by helping clients to manage their assets, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and reduce their carbon emissions. We work with a vast number of clients in every industry across both the public and private sectors and deliver the broadest range of services that can be found in one place: from integrated facilities management to engineering maintenance to lifecycle energy management and much more.

There’s a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We’re a big company with big ambitions – a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 61,000 people, revenues in excess of £1.9bn, and a reputation for being the best.

Visit us at www.mitie.com