Accountant of the Year

An award to recognise the best young accountant in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate how you are technically and commercially the best young accountant within the Greater Manchester region. Describe your role and functional area of expertise within your organisation. From an external perspective, describe how you serve your clients’ requirements through the development of pragmatic and commercial solutions to meet your clients’ business needs; and how you have developed your own personal eminence within the Greater Manchester professional community.

Banker of the Year

An award to recognise the best young banker in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate how you are technically and commercially the best banker within the Greater Manchester region. Recognise your role within your organisation and externally to both service clients’ requirements and meet business needs, along with growing both your personal reputation and your firm/company's presence within the Greater Manchester community.

Business Development Professional of the Year

An award to recognise the best young business development professional in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate your ability to provide attributable value to your organisation as well as developing lead generation opportunities and describe how you contribute to developing your organisation and your own profile in the Greater Manchester region. Describe your role, within your organisation and externally, in both servicing client requirements and meeting business needs.

Corporate Financier of the Year

An award to recognise the best young corporate financier in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate your ability to provide attributable value to your organisation as well as developing lead generation opportunities and how you contribute to developing your organisation and your own profile in the Greater Manchester region. Describe your role, both within your organisation and externally, in servicing client requirements and meeting business needs.

Digital, Media or Creative Professional of the Year

An award to recognise the best young digital, media or creative professional in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate how you are technically and commercially the best digital, media or creative professional within the Greater Manchester region. Recognise your role, both within your organisation and externally, in servicing client requirements and meeting business needs, along with growing both your personal reputation and your firm/company's presence within the Greater Manchester community.

Entrepreneur of the Year

An award to recognise the most entrepreneurial individual within the Greater Manchester region this year. Demonstrate your role within your organisation (if applicable) and also externally in both servicing client requirements and meeting business needs, along with growing both your personal reputation and your firm/company's presence within the Greater Manchester community.

Lawyer of the Year

An award to recognise the best young lawyer in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate how you are technically and commercially the best lawyer within the Greater Manchester region. Recognise your role within your organisation and externally in both servicing client requirements and meeting business needs, along with growing both your personal reputation and your firm/company's presence within the Greater Manchester community.

Mentor of the Year

This category is aimed at an outstanding individual who has mentored and supported a colleague or colleagues (mentee) in a less senior position to themselves in order to help them develop both personally and professionally.

Nomiations can be made by the mentee, mentor and or another third party

Property Professional of the Year

An award to recognise the best young property professional in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate how you are technically and commercially the best young property professional within the Greater Manchester region. Describe your role, both within your organisation and externally, in servicing client requirements and meeting business needs, along with growing both your personal reputation and your firm/company's presence within the Greater Manchester professional community.

Talent and Recruitment Professional of the Year

An award to recognise the best young HR, talent or search professional in the Greater Manchester region. Demonstrate how you are technically and commercially the best young HR/Talent or search professional within the Greater Manchester region.

Manchester Champion

This category is aimed at an outstanding individual who has volunteered in the local community or with a Manchester-based charity to help to create real improvements for the City of Manchester or its inhabitants. 

The Chairman's Rising Star Award

This award will be judged by Tim Grogan, Director of deloitte and future pro.manchester Chairman; Paul McGlone, future pro.manchester Vice Chairman and Nicola Quayle, KPMG and pro-manchester Chairman. The winner of this award will be chosen from a shortlist made up of the winners from the individual professionals’ categories. This award will be given to an individual who has proven their potential to be a future leader.