Training provider Premier Global has appointed Victoria Branch as its new global marketing manager.

Branch joins Premier from public access leisure provider Leisure Connection, where she spent the past two and a half years.

She started in her new role on 22 February and has been tasked with marketing the entire Premier Global portfolio, including its Premier Training International arm and the awarding body ActiveIQ.

At Premier, Branch will report to sales and marketing director Mark Botha, who also joined Premier from Leisure Connection in October 2009.

Branch says: "I'm looking forward to joining a growing company, and to the challenge of integrating its marketing across the digital and social networking platforms."

Premier Training International was founded in 1992 by Norman and Jane Basson under its original name of Premier Fitness Instructor Training.