Hill Laboratories Ethos Right For New Division Manager

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24 July 2012

Hill Laboratories Ethos Right For New Division Manager

Creating the right chemistry to grow leaders is the best part of the job for Hill Laboratories’ new food and bioanalytical division manager.

David Havard was promoted to the role recently after more than 25 years working in laboratories including United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Hill Laboratories’ ethos to improve, encourage and grow staff is an element of the role David particularly enjoys.

“It’s great to come to work knowing you can actually make a difference by developing staff and making positive changes to the way we work,” he said.

David worked at GSK in the UK for eight years after beginning his career at Pentagon Chemicals in Cumbria straight from secondary school.

He studied for a chemistry degree on the job, allowing him to practice what he was learning in the workplace.

“It was great to be able to study chemistry for the right reasons and being able to relate to it in a practical sense,” he said.

David’s move to New Zealand, and to Hill Laboratories, was somewhat serendipitous.
“I did some cold calling before we came over for a holiday in 2007 and there were no jobs. The day before we left, I got a call from Hills saying a position had become available. The rest is history.”

Hill Laboratories is New Zealand’s leading analytical testing laboratory, providing tests and technical support to customers throughout the world.

The company is 100 percent New Zealand owned, grown from small beginnings in the 1980s into the country’s largest independent analytical laboratory.

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