Currently in its first year, we at SME News are thrilled to host the Managing Director of the Year Awards 2022! Focusing on those at the forefront of businesses, we seek to shine a light on those who have shown true excellence in leadership, commitment, and determination more than ever over the past 12 months across the UK.
NOMINATE NOWCurrently in its first year, we at SME News are thrilled to host the Managing Director of the Year Awards 2022! Focusing on those at the forefront of businesses, we seek to shine a light on those who have shown true excellence in leadership, commitment, and determination more than ever over the past 12 months across the UK.
After an uneasy couple of years, especially for those at the forefront the way businesses are run has changed and adapted to current times, proving the strength and versatility of UK Managing Directors, whether it be to accommodate the shift to working remotely to keeping their teams and clients safe with the everchanging rules and regulations.
SME News seek to celebrate and reward the momentous contributions leaders make to the social, environmental, and economic prosperity in their business across the nation.
We at SME News recognise now to be the most crucial time to take part in our Managing Director of the Year Awards 2022, being the perfect way to showcase managing directors who have kept businesses afloat, changed company dynamics for the better and have even bigger goals for 2022.
Notifying stakeholders of your participation in our programme indicates that your business is garnering the attention of third parties, and that word of your expertise and customer service are creating a buzz within competitive sectors.
As always, our programme is open to all managing directors within the UK, regardless of how long they have been in the position and size of business they direct.
Our awards are based on merit alone, rather than the number of votes received for each individual.
Our process works to ensure that we reward managing directors based on their excellence in the industry, the commitment to their clients and their dedication to services.
If you are, or know of a managing director deserving of recognition, then please feel free to nominate via the form or reach out to the programme coordinator, Jazmin, directly for further details!
For further details on our methodology and process, please find our FAQs on the Managing Director of the Year 2022 Awards page.
Key Dates
Entries Open:
Monday 29th November 2021
Entries Closed:
Monday 14th March 2022
Winners Announced:
May 2022
Awards Coordinator
Jazmin is both creative and dedicated in her role as Awards Co-ordinator for SME News. Jazmin works hard to ensure a great customer journey for her clients and is committed to supporting award winners and nominees in gaining the best exposure for their efforts and their business.
Our Methodology
Researching nominees
The SME News team work ardently to identify market leaders, innovators and enterprising start-ups, driving many of the nominations themselves.
We also encourage external nominations via the SME News subscribers, online visitors, social media followers, clients and wider circulation.
Nominating parties are invited to put forward either third-party businesses whom they hold in high regard, or their own organisation.
Shortlisting nominees
All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination. Should any firm or individual rather decline at this point, they are simply taken out of the running.
Those formally accepting are given the opportunity to submit additional materials in support of their nomination. Although there is no obligation to complete and supply material, we have found that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as much as our research team do.
Evaluating and judging
Our dedicated research team will assess all information presented to them.
The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or the nominee themselves.
The research team casts their final judgment, based on various criteria including: client dedication, innovation, business growth, longevity, online reputation, customer feedback and business performance.
The lucky winners
Once winners are determined, they are personally notified before any public announcement is made, allowing time for any communications throughout the wider business and the coordination of marketing strategies.
Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner; however, all who take part are encouraged to come back next year.
Once the press embargo is lifted, details of our SME award winners will be made public via the website, award winners’ magazine and subscriber newsletter.
Making the most of your win
We are prepared to offer a range of promotional packages and items to SME award winners, which vary from inclusion in the free-of-charge winners’ directory, to trophies, content in our magazine and on our website.
We encourage all winners to publicly announce their win independently. Announcements via company websites, social media, via publicly released press releases, and through local and national press are all great ways of maximising the exposure which can be gained from such an amazing achievement. If you have need of further advice, on how to gain maximum exposure from your win, please feel free to get in touch. We are happy to assist our clients with their needs.
FAQsOur Winners
Our featured winners are included in our celebratory awards magazine, published online and circulated to the circulation of SME News. All winners are included in our winners directory. Once a year's winners have been announced the full list of winners for that year will be available to view by clicking on the equivalent button displayed below.
It is the first year this award has run. Winners will be displayed here after the official announcement, so come back and see them soon!
Testimonials
Our Awards Team
Jane Henderson - Director
Jane is one of three directors at AI Global Media, the publishing house behind SME News. Jane is committed to ensuring that each winner of an SME News award not only has a great experience but also gains maximum value for their win.
Jeremy Roe - Head of Research
Jeremy is dedicated to his research team and to the readers, nominees and award winners of SME News. Jeremy's diligent approach is carried across to this team members ensuring quality in the research carried out on behalf of SME News.
Martyn Walters – SME News Lead Researcher
Martyn joined the business in 2015 and rapidly became an integral part of the research team. Martyn has a keen interest in understanding businesses from those just starting out to those that have cemented their place in their market for decades or more. He also understands that an award win such as one of SME News’ can be a powerful marketing tool for small businesses making it key for the research team to select those most fitting and most worthy of one of these highly sought-after awards.
Steven Simpson - SME News Awards Team Leader
Steven came to the group in 2015 and has since proven to be a most respected, conscientious and valued team member. Steven oversees a number of SME News' key awards programmes ensuring that all nominees and winners receive a great experience from the team and that our winners are supported in gaining maximum exposure from such an amazing achievement.
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