Murray Coleman leaves Bovis Lend Lease UK

摘要

Murray Coleman, Bovis Lend Lease's UK chief executive, is to leave the contractor's UK operations and return to Australia in a shake-up of the firm's top management. It is understood that Coleman, who has been with the ￡1.4bn-turnover UK business for just over two years, is to leave his role imminently to take up a senior position at the contractor's parent firm, Lend Lease. He is expected to be replaced within weeks by Nick Pollard, the chief operating officer, who joined Bovis from Skanska last October. The move has emerged at the same time as signs that the economic downturn is hitting the contractor hard, particularly its UK South business, which is expected to make significant job cuts. The firm is believed to have put 200 staff on notice of redundancy, although sources close to the company stressed this number was required by a legal process and did not necessarily mean that all 200 would lose their jobs.