General Manager

The ideal candidate for this General Manager role is a hands-on leader with a proven track record in selling technical products and solutions, ideally within manufacturing or distribution environments, with a strong product-oriented mindset. We have been supplying complete systems and component parts to dealers and installers across the UK for over three decades. Based in the Home Counties, you will thrive on developing relationships with customers and be familiar with a distribution model/environment but also improving and mentoring your staff.

BASIC SALARY: up to £100,000

• Bonus
• Car or car allowance
• Pension
• Insurances
• 25 days holiday

Office-based leadership role with occasional international travel. You could be based anywhere within 75 minutes of our office. Location will be discussed once an NDA is signed.

• Lead and develop the UK team to achieve realistic revenue and profit targets set by the wider group.
• Drive business generation and customer-facing activities, enjoying the sales cycle.
• Set sales objectives and strategies and help motivate the sales team as you see fit.
• Oversee all leadership elements for the business (Full P and L circa £10m t/o) including coaching and motivating.
• Work with and develop the team of direct reports and oversee the development of all indirect reports.
• Carry out regular market analysis to ensure awareness of competition and economic indicators impacting the business.
• Help drive into new market focus areas and maximize growth opportunities.
• Demonstrate operational excellence and manage inventory, logistics and assembly teams.
• Drive operational excellence through effective inventory management and leadership of logistics and assembly teams.

• Varied industry exposure with a keen focus on a technical product/solution; aptitude and interest to learn outweigh specific industry experience.
• Degree level education; sales and operational management experience at the right level is considered.
• Gravitas and presence to drive a sales strategy where you are the face of the business.
• Experience managing a multi-million-pound P and L.
• Genuine enthusiasm for the SME environment; a hands-on candidate who enjoys the many hats of an SME business.

As part of an international group, we are active in a variety of industries and have more than 50 entities across 15 countries. We operate globally but are locally anchored. Each company has its own identity but is part of that bigger picture. We owe our success to a heightened level of cooperation with our customers, our search for sustainable solutions and continuous i