Lucy Cross

Lucy Cross, Business Development Manager for The Black Country Growth Hub. Focussed on relationship building, development and management. Supporting Black Country businesses to achieve their long term strategic goals through collaborative approaches.

My role is an integral part of a team delivering account management to businesses contacting the Growth Hub, offering a individual signposting service into relevant services across the region to help drive business growth.

I work closely with the Growth Hub’s partners to provide up to date information around business need, supporting local strategies to encourage inward investment and scale up of Black Country SME’s as a core focus.

I bring with me to role 9 years’ experience supporting start-up businesses, seeing the challenges faced for new businesses to grow and be successful, it is important to me we ensure the correct support and programmes are easily accessible as that business grows and develops, supporting the wider economy in the Black Country and making us the first choice for relocation.