Nick Laird

Chief Commercial Officer

Areas of responsibility

Nick joined Ceridian in August 2010 and is responsible for Ceridian’s commercial strategy, marketing & sales and pre-sales support teams within the UK and International divisions.

“My role is to help lead the growth and reputation of our company. We have implemented some really innovative, breakthrough solutions for clients which add huge value to their management teams and their businesses. We look to help our customers by understanding the challenges they have and helping them define the changes they want to make. We then help them to identify and solidify the value they get from making those changes. Our blue-chip existing customers and our talented colleagues allow us the experience and capability to build solutions that deliver value for our customers over the long term”

Background

Nick is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and has leadership experience across industries. He started his career at Ford Motor Company in finance, sales and then marketing roles; moving on to be operations and commercial director with Cellular Operations, a telecommunications business that he helped grow and sell to Vodafone. More recently Nick was a director of TMM, a private equity company. A graduate of Oxford University, where he studied engineering, Nick also undertook an MBA at INSEAD business school in France.