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Meet our Commercial and Business Development Lead – Sue Stevens

Meet our Commercial and Business Development Lead – Sue Stevens

Sue Stevens

With a career spanning continents and industries, Sue brings a wealth of experience, business insight, and a passion for building strong customer relationships. From family business beginnings to leading our subsea asset integrity software commercial team, Sue’s career journey is full of growth.

Learn more about her in the Q&A below.

Can you tell us more about your impressive career path?

After graduating from RGIT in Aberdeen, I joined a Drilling Contractor and worked in both Aberdeen and London. Then I joined our family business, which developed the hardware and software for monitoring systems for rotating machinery, in a Business Development role. 

This gave me a great grounding into the workings and pressures of a privately owned high-tech company which has stayed with me. I’m very proud of what our parents built from nothing, and of how enterprising and advanced what we were doing was.

I also lived in Switzerland for a couple of years when the family business was sold to a company in Fribourg. I want to say my ski-ing improved but sadly not. This was a great experience from both a work and a personal perspective. Going back to have fondue in Gruyere in Wintertime remains firmly on my ‘to-do’ list.

I remained in the Condition Monitoring/Reliability business for many years, before joining ix3 in 2019, who became Aize, and transitioned to Elementz when the new Company was formed earlier this year.

I feel fortunate to have had a career that has taken me around the world, allowing me to work with exceptional companies and super people from whom I’ve learned so much (and I’m still learning).

What do you find most fulfilling about your role at Elementz?

Being part of a small dynamic Team again and seeing the tangible results of what we’re all doing is great.

When I look back at the Companies I’ve worked for, the highest performing Teams have always been where all the arrows were pointing in the same direction – no faff, no politics, everyone working towards a common goal and doing the very best they can. That’s what we have in Elementz, with lots of laughs along the way.

Now that we’re six months post-rebrand, how do you feel about the evolution of Elementz? And what’s been the most exciting part of the journey so far?

I’m Commercial/Business Development and customer-focused, so I love that our Customers have come with us on our journey as Elementz, that we have so many great Customer relationships—many of which we’ve had for a long time—and, of course, that we’ve had a great first year.

It’s a great start but we’re not resting on our laurels – there’s a lot planned to keep us moving ahead, making it an interesting and very dynamic place to be.

How do you balance your personal passions with your leadership role at Elementz?

I’d love to say I do something exciting and glamorous outside of work, but I don’t!

Of course, spending time with my partner, family, and friends is hugely important. When I’m not with them, you’ll most likely find me in my very scruffy gear out in the garden. I enjoy comparing notes with customers and colleagues regarding how our gardening efforts are going—whether it’s growing potatoes, carrots, or whatever else we’ve planted!

So, not exactly life in the fast lane, but good for the soul (I think)!

If you had to pick a theme song that would play every time you enter a room, what would it be and why?

I love a wide range of music, but I think it would have to be an upbeat tune that lifts my spirits and makes me feel good, as I hope it would have the same effect on everyone else in the room.

So, not focussing too much on the lyrics, but just how upbeat the tune is – for me it would be ‘Build me up Buttercup’ by the Foundations or ‘It’s Getting Better’ by Cass Elliot.

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