General Manager – Director Designate c£50,000 + Bonus South Midlands

Our client is seeking to appoint a General Manager with the proven ability to operate at director level and clear potential to become their next Managing Director. The successful candidate will, as General Manager, assume immediate responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Company’s operations, while they learn about the business and prepare for transition into the role of Operations Director. Given a satisfactory demonstration of performance by the applicant, our client hopes that this transition would be completed within one year. As part of their longer-term succession planning, our client intends that the new Operations Director will become their next Managing Director – with full operational and commercial responsibility, and accountable directly to the shareholders – on retirement of the current post holder in two or three years. The Company has been operating successfully and profitably for over 30 years and is in an extended period of business growth. They are well-known in their industry for the high quality of both the products and the related installation, commissioning and maintenance services that they supply to their customers. Equally, they are well known for the manner in which they have established and maintained long-term relationships with those customers. These relationships provide the Company with an excellent opportunity to further extend the period of growth as customers invest in both new-build facilities and equipment replacement programmes. The General Manager will...

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