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Baachu Talk FM Podcast
A Podcast For Facilities & Workplace Service Professionals
Episode 8: Jeremy Campbell, Executive Director, Marketing and Business Development, EMCOR Group
Baachu Talk FM is a new show produced by Baachu Rain and hosted by Baskar Sundaram where top FM leaders discuss their work journeys to success. My podcast brings fascinating conversations with some of the most experienced insightful facilities services people in the world straight to listeners all over the world!
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Today's Guest is Jeremy Campbell
Jeremy has over 25 years of professional experience FM and Hospitality, working both client side and service provider side across the hospitality, utilities, defence, and energy sectors. He started his FM journey back in the early 1990’s and have held various management roles during that time working with companies like Norweb, North West Water, United Utilities and Vertex.
In 2007, Jeremy joined EMCOR UK as a Key Account Director to lead their aerospace and defence business delivering integrated facilities services in highly complex manufacturing, production and R&D environments supporting mission critical products. In 2014 as Operations Director, he led UK Utilities Solutions and transformation services in electrical distribution, water and waste water services, before joining the EMCOR UK Board in 2017.
Jeremy is a founder of EMCOR UK’s Key Account Management programme, Lean Learning Academy, and was the lead director for our Collaborative Business Relationship Management strategy, resulting in EMCOR UK becoming one of the first six companies anywhere in the world, and the first FM company to achieve IS044001. Additionally, he supports special interest groups in social value and sustainability, and UK Charity Water Aid.
As an Executive Director, Jeremy leads EMCOR UK’s marketing, brand development and customer solutions activities. He is also a part of the management board with the Institute of Collaborative Working (ICW) and am a regular contributor and speaker at industry events.
In 2007, Jeremy joined EMCOR UK as a Key Account Director to lead their aerospace and defence business delivering integrated facilities services in highly complex manufacturing, production and R&D environments supporting mission critical products. In 2014 as Operations Director, he led UK Utilities Solutions and transformation services in electrical distribution, water and waste water services, before joining the EMCOR UK Board in 2017.
Jeremy is a founder of EMCOR UK’s Key Account Management programme, Lean Learning Academy, and was the lead director for our Collaborative Business Relationship Management strategy, resulting in EMCOR UK becoming one of the first six companies anywhere in the world, and the first FM company to achieve IS044001. Additionally, he supports special interest groups in social value and sustainability, and UK Charity Water Aid.
As an Executive Director, Jeremy leads EMCOR UK’s marketing, brand development and customer solutions activities. He is also a part of the management board with the Institute of Collaborative Working (ICW) and am a regular contributor and speaker at industry events.
In this episode, we’ll discuss Jeremy’s
- Childhood in a small village in West England and beginning of a working career since the age of 13.
- Transition from a remote village to a life in bigger cities like Lancaster.
- Gradual entry into the FM Industry
- Record collection, love for music, especially Death Metal. cooking and memorable kitchen failures.
- Perception of the FM industry and the myths associated with it.
- People influential in his life.
Few random questions
- If you could eat only three food for the rest of your lives, what would you eat?
- If your life story was made a movie, which actor do you want him to play and what would be the name of the movie?
- If you are inviting three special guest, say from history, who’d you invite and what would you cook?
- Do you have a memorable kitchen failure?
- If we play a song every time you enter a room, what would be that song?
- If you are playing hide and seek right now, where would you seek?
- What was the last thing you watched in TV and was there a reason behind choosing it?
- Do you have a favourite conspiracy theory?
- Would you rather time travel to the past or to the future?
- What do you prefer? milk before cereal or cereal before milk?
- Have you ever sent a message to the wrong person?
Key Nuggets
- I am inspired by the American writer Tom Peters. His works prove that with hard work, good work ethic, determination and curiosity you can achieve whatever you want to be.
- Be proactive with your career. Take it seriously, but don’t take life too seriously.
- You should network, but network with drive and find intelligent conversations. Be yourself and then you will have a successful and healthy life.
- Back then, not everybody went to universities, they didn’t necessarily have the funds for that. I kind of always educated myself throughout my entire career.
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