09 May 2025
City Plumbing, part of Highbourne Group, has appointed Liz Taylor as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Joining the senior leadership team, Liz will be instrumental in driving the strong positive momentum City Plumbing has built across all its branch-managed channels, including its leading Renewables business.
Liz joins Highbourne Group with more than 20 years of commercial experience, bringing a retail perspective to the merchanting industry from her different roles including, most recently, Commercial Director at Morrisons.
Prior to joining Morrisons, Liz spent over eight years at Marks & Spencer and nine years at Asda. Throughout that time, Liz has built up extensive experience in strategic supply base planning; managing complex and high turnover categories to deliver significant commercial and operational benefits through customer-focused and data-led decision making.
Liz will report directly to Highborne Group’s CEO, Dave Evans. Reporting into Liz will be Dominic Sarkar, Commercial Director; Steve Smith, Managing Director of The Bathroom Showroom; and Hemal Morjaria, Managing Director of Renewables, Electrical and Site Temp.
Dave Evans said: “Within a challenging market backdrop, across the Highbourne Group, we continue to make great progress on our core strategic initiatives whilst taking market share across all sectors. Liz joining our leadership team will add further impetus to this momentum, and I look forward to working with her and utilising her fabulous commercial experience and skills.”
Liz Taylor said: “I’m looking forward to joining the Highbourne Group and being part of an organisation with a clear strategy in place, working towards some ambitious goals.
“I’m delighted to be a part of the team that will strengthen Highbourne Group’s offering, and using the experience I’ve gained over the years, meet the complex and ever-changing requirements of its vast customer portfolio.”
