Managing Director

Role Overview & Purpose

This is a highly dynamic and transformative leadership opportunity, offering the chance to shape and lead two businesses in the electrical infrastructure sector. The role will inherit the strengths of two well-established UK-based businesses (TOFCO CPP and Lucy ZODION), while being tasked with driving growth, cultural alignment and technology innovation in a competitive and evolving market. The businesses primarily serve the UK and Middle East markets today, with the opportunity to further grow sales across these geographies as well as expanding into other international markets.

With the support of experienced teams, the role will have the scope to make a lasting impact on both heritage and new opportunities, and backed by the Lucy Group, a strong international technology group with a resilient growth strategy.

The role will be responsible for growth, achieving annual revenue targets and further strengthen profitability within the next 3 years.

To succeed in this role, the role will need to deliver across three fundamental areas:

• Strategic Growth – define and execute a clear vision for the future, positioning the businesses for suitable expansion and competitive advantage
• Transformation – Manage high performing businesses, aligning people, processes, and culture.
• Operational Excellence – establish efficient structures across all operations and ensure governance, compliance and risk management are firmly in place

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated leader with considerable senior leadership capability. This role will require a driven leader with substantial prior experience of business performance, growth and people management.

The appointment of a new leader to take forward two well-established businesses (Lucy ZODION and TOFCO) following the stepping down of the Managing Directors of both businesses. This leadership role is being established to bring fresh perspective and drive, building on the strong market expertise and operational foundation of both well established and respected organizations. The new leader will benefit from a transition period formally assuming leadership over both businesses in 2027, ensuring they have deep insight into the businesses while preparing to guide them into their next phase of growth.

This role is ideal for a leader ready to take already solid businesses to their next phase of development, product expansion, and operational maturity, while maintaining continuity, culture and momentum. The position reports to the CEO of Lucy Controls.

The leader will have full executive responsibility for leading all core functions of the businesses. This includes:

Provide strategic leadership, setting and executing a vision for growth, innovation, and operational excellence.

Build and lead high performing teams fostering collaboration across businesses.

Embed a forward-looking culture that balances continuity of established strengths with the adoption of new ideas and practices.

Enable commercial performance, further strengthen market positioning and support the commercial team to identify new opportunities for growth in the UK, the Middle East and other identified international markets.

Lead and optimize operations across manufacturing and supply chain to enable sustainable and cost-efficient scale.

Drive product innovation and roadmap alignment ensuring market fit, whilst developing new opportunities.

Ensure clear understanding of key market and customer segments which set the businesses apart.

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