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title: "Our Latest Recruit: Emily Burton – Account Manger"
date: 2024-12-31
published: 2014-08-04
author: "Grant Whiteside"
categories:
  - name: "Strategy"
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  - name: "account manager"
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  - name: "emily burton"
    url: "/en-gb/tag/emily-burton.md"
  - name: "recruit"
    url: "/en-gb/tag/recruit.md"
lang: en-gb
---

# Our Latest Recruit: Emily Burton – Account Manger

**How are you? Welcome to Ambergreen. You’ve been brought onboard as an Account Manager. As the latest recruit, could you tell me a little about yourself and why the change to Ambergreen?**

I’m very well thank you.

Previously, I have been working for a number of companies in the software and financial services industries. The decision to start at Ambergreen was an easy one knowing that I would be working with a great team and that I would be able to work closely with a wide range of clients to understand their goals and develop plans for how we can help achieve and surpass their objectives.

**Rumour has it that your first job in Edinburgh involved dressing up as a water melon, would you care to explain how we got from water melon to Account Manager at Ambergreen?**

Yes! Flyering on the Royal Mile in the rain dressed as a watermelon sounds pretty miserable, but it was actually a really fun role – I got to speak to loads of different people, from performers to tourists and other people dressed as fruit. In my Account Manager role, I have to be an effective communicator – who would have thought that this skill could have developed during my time dressed as a melon! I never thought that job would have been so valuable to my career later on in life!

**How can you help the clients reach their goals this year?**

I think by listening to and understanding our clients’ business objectives – both in the long and short term. This is key to help develop a strategy with our technical team that really focuses on how our clients want to grow or drive revenue.

**What do you do out of hours when you’re not being an Account Manager?**

When I’m not being an Account Manager, I tend to either be down the local DIY store or in my flat trying to give it a fresh lick of paint. I love interior design and enjoy trips to odds and ends shops looking for things that I can adapt with my own style. I also love cycling, making clothes and I am trying to understand how to use an SLR camera to its full capability!

**Any words of wisdom?**

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something