Managing Director

A highly motivated Managing Director/Country Manager, you'll enjoy all the commercial exposure a senior role can afford. Working closely with your internal stakeholders at all levels and across our group, your goal is to provide commercial insight to ensure our business stays market relevant. Maintaining key customer relationships and driving our people to ensure we continually increase our market share and stakeholder relationships.
 
BASIC SALARY: £130,000 - £150,000
 
BENEFITS:
· Annual bonus
· Company Car Allowance
· Contributory Pension
· Medical cover payment
· Life assurance
· 25 days holiday
 
LOCATION: Multi-site business - Head office in Hertfordshire
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Luton, Dunstable, Hemel Hempstead, Watford, High Wycombe, Reading, Slough, Birmingham, Watford, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Oxford, Leicester, Rugby, Northampton, Derby, Nottingham, Stevenage, Hatfield, St Albans
 
JOB DESCRIPTION:  Managing Director, Country Manager - Interiors, Retail
 
You'll look to partner with all levels of business, as well as staying close to our key customers and the industry in general, our competition and market development. As the Managing Director/Country Manager you should be a proven people manager as well as an inspirational leader, thriving off inspiring from shop floor to boardroom.
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
 
As the Managing Director/Country Manager, you will be involved in everything we do in terms of business development, account management, operational excellence, and business intelligence. You will oversee around £60million in turnover so experience of this size of operation would be very advantageous.

You will also:
· Collaborate with the senior leadership team and wider group in setting and delivering the company's objectives and targets.
· Help to lead and inspire the sales and wider operational teams, providing coaching and training to close skill gaps and foster a high-performance culture.
· Ensure accurate and efficient management of data for strategic decision-making and to drive growth.
· Report Directly to the region director and together with 4 key direct reports, (Sales, Operations, People & Culture and Finance) shape the strategy and its delivery for the UK.
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION:Managing Director, Country Manager - Interiors, Retail
 
To be successful in your application, you will already be a driven and experienced MD, Sales Director, VP Country Manager or General Manager, and you may now be looking for the next step of your career or a fresh challenge with an international group. Either way you will have:
· A proven track record of developing and growing businesses with circa £40-£100million turnover.
· Tenacity and drive in approaching and engaging with everyone, internally and externally.
· Influencing skills and a persuasive manner, the ability to get others to 'buy in' to you and your approach.
· A background in businesses that make and sell products / services. (Ideally this will be into retail, but all industry backgrounds will be considered, we want a great person, so industry experience will be contributory but not a specific criteria).
 
COMPANY:
 
We are one of the world's leading suppliers to major retailers. With an enviable reputation for quality and innovation, we truly partner with our clients and have done so for decades.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgment of your application.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: MT17689, Wallace Hind Selection