Meet the Maxim team – Ruth Anderson
Our newly appointed Events and Sustainability Manager, Ruth Anderson, explains what her role entails, what keeps her busy when she is not at work and gives us an insight into her previous roles before joining our team.
Please tell us about the role you play within the Maxim team
As Events and Sustainability Manager, my role is to create an engaging and inspiring program of community events and activities for our tenants and their guests to enjoy. With sustainability and community at the heart, I am working in partnership with all our tenants towards common goals, and finding new, innovative, and economically reductive ways to keep the park as green and as environmentally friendly as possible.
What roles have you held prior to joining the Maxim team?
I am an experienced Event & Project Manager with 10+ years’ in the industry, working with a range of private, corporate, and public sector clients.
I studied Events and Festival Management at Edinburgh Napier University. Here, I developed special interests in Community Engagement, Event Sustainability and promoting positive social/economic change to local areas.
I trained with National Museums of Scotland as an Event Co-ordinator in the earlier years before moving onto work with a plethora of organisations wearing many different hats.
What do you enjoy most about your role at Maxim?
So far, I am enjoying the variety of work the role has to offer. One minute I could be planning a Halloween inspired Drive in Cinema experience, to exploring ways to grow and develop organic vegetable plots around the park. The role offers so much more and I’m looking forward to meeting and working with all our tenants, particularly on sustainability issues.
What makes Maxim a special place to work?
The diversity of people who work at the park and the variety of industries on site, everyone is here, from; engineers, communications, medical, construction, insurance, environmental, catering & hospitality, the list goes on. The park itself is lovely to walk round, being able to leave your desk and go for a walk round the park or sitting by one of the many ponds or water features for lunch is a wonderful way to reenergize yourself and clear your head. Not only are the grounds lovely to look at, but you also feel you are in the middle of nature. It is hard to believe the M8 is just on the other side of the trees!
What has been your most memorable day whilst working at Maxim?
The Dakota Hotel here at Eurocentral recently organsied a fantastic networking event for everyone at the park. “Sustainable Hybrid Working in a Post-Pandemic World” centered around returning to work post Covid and it was interesting hearing everyone’s thoughts and stories on home vs office working. What role the office now offers in a post pandemic world.
Tell us about some of the facilities available to guests at Maxim?
Maxim really has a great little community at its heart, it offers a wide variety of facilities and amenities to suit all. Regis, Piece and Dakota offer fabulous meeting points for either business or social meetings with delicious menus catering to all.
There is a hair/beauty salon, and for the health conscious and fitness fanatics, Enduro Fit gym provides a fabulous space to keep fit, with state-of-the-art gym equipment and a host of weekly fitness classes. The Park grounds are gorgeous and large enough to walk, jog or run round, it also has an outdoor gym and putting green. You can hire bikes, ebikes, and there are plenty EV charge points located throughout the park.
What keeps you busy when you are not working at Maxim?
Lots of hobbies, upholstering and upcycling old, tired furniture. Road tripping around our stunning landscape, sightseeing and bagging the occasional Munro.
Tell us something about Maxim that we may not know?
There is an absconder fish who currently resides in the fountain pond outside the Papillion Nursery, his name is Nigel. If you are walking by that way, please stop and say hello, until we can return him to his family and former home.
