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

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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 be responsible for the management of the Company’s overall supply chain and all the day-to-day activities associated with the installation, commissioning and maintenance work that it does for its customers. This includes managing: an established, loyal and motivated team of some 20 staff, who work at the Company’s own site and away at the remote customer sites; and, the Company’s vehicles and specialist equipment. The General Manager will work closely with the existing Managing Director, as he steps back from the management of Operations to focus on the customer-facing Commercial side of the business, to ensure that standards of effectiveness, efficiency, quality and safety are all maintained throughout the period of transition. The Company does not operate in a complex manufacturing environment but it does do assembly and fabrication work on its own site, as well as the extensive and quite complex work on customer sites; the maintenance of appropriate safety standards is essential. The General Manager will assume the role of championing a safety and quality culture in which every member of staff recognises their own role and responsibility for ensuring that Health & Safety best practice is followed, while maintaining the high quality standards for which the Company is known.

The successful candidate will already have gained experience of operations management within a B2B customer focused organisation. This may have been within a manufacturing environment such as: automotive, pharmaceutical, Food Manufacturing or FMCG. Equally applicants may have gained experience within a fabrication or assembly operation, most importantly they will have experience of working within a quality driven customer focused business. Previous experience of installation work or commissioning of new equipment and managing field based teams would be a distinct advantage.

If you feel that you share our passion and enthusiasm for providing customers with high quality, premium equipment combined with a service to meet their requirements and exceed their expectations then in the first instance email your CV to Woodlands Recruitment Solutions or for further details call Kieron Madden on M:07787 408844.