Dicksons welcomes three new board members

Scottish dealer group Dicksons has named three new board members as it looks to strengthen its leadership team.

Linda MacPhee, Douglas Laird and Jamie Dunlop have joined the company’s board from existing roles withing the business.

Fraser Bryce, Managing Director of Dicksons of Inverness, said: “It is vitally important for Dicksons to plan for the future, to ensure our team members and customers’ needs always come first.

“Our existing directors have successfully navigated the business through significant growth and change over the last 30 years, and it is now time to strengthen the board with three exceptional individuals.”

MacPhee joins the board as group aftersales director. She started her automotive career as an apprentice service advisor and then worked as a workshop controller before being headhunted by Dicksons where she “transformed” the group’s workshop control and was subsequently promoted to service manager.

She was named group aftersales manager three years later.

Laird joined Dicksons as group parts manager, after spending 23 years working in the franchised parts field. He “embraced and developed” MG, Nissan, Kia and Suzuki parts sales and added Peugeot, Citroen, Vauxhall and DS to Dickson’s franchised parts partnerships. He is now group parts director.

Dunlop takes the role of finance director, having held the position as financial controller at Dicksons since 2017. He has worked in accountancy for 20 years and looks after the core responsibilities of the business’s financial planning and coordinates all budgeting, financial reporting, exploring and executing expansion opportunities.

Dicksons, which has been in Inverness since 1972, employs around 70 people at its Telford Retail Park base.

The business opened an MG Showroom in Inverness, last year.

Dicksons sales director Jim Mackenzie has notched up 25 years of service with the Inverness-based dealer group and believes the move to electric cars will be the industry’s most significant chapter.