Rachel Beeken from Gist Limited, has been named Young Manager of the Year at the CILT (UK) Annual Awards for Excellence 2011.

Rachel, now general manager at one of Gist's largest operations, scooped the prestigious award by demonstrating the ambition, professional drive and outstanding people skills that has delivered excellence in personal, employee, team, business and customer satisfaction.

Rachel Beeken from Gist Limited, has been named Young Manager of the Year at the CILT(UK)'s Annual Awards for Excellence 2011.

Rachel, now general manager at one of Gist's largest operations, scooped the prestigious award by demonstrating the ambition, professional drive and outstanding people skills that has delivered excellence in personal, employee, team, business and customer satisfaction.

During her fast-paced career at Gist, Rachel has been instrumental in customer account growth, has introduced a range of improved employee programmes, revised work processes and created structured training programmes for her teams that showed a demonstrable improvement in performance.

Gist was also named winner of Development of People category, giving recognition to its industry-leading people programmes that includes delivering NVQs, driver CPCs and the use of people panels to support robust development and succession planning.

Rachel Beeken, general manager, Gist said: "I am absolutely thrilled to be named CILT's Young Manager of the Year. The logistics industry offers so much, great teams of people, a dynamic and fast-moving environment, and great career opportunities, it is a fantastic choice for anyone wanting to start or further their career."

Martin Gwynn, chief executive, Gist said: "Since Rachel joined Gist on the graduate programme, her professional demeanour, high standards and enthusiasm for herself and her team to succeed has shown her to be an excellent leader. Congratulations to Rachel for this outstanding achievement.

Gist's people programme is key to our business success. Delivering excellence to our customers relies on our high standards and skilled workforce. We are proud of our people and through them, proud to deliver service excellence to our customers."