General Manager
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General Manager
Location: Cheltenham
Salary: Competitive Salary, Plus Car Allowance, Bonus & Bens
Type: Permanent, On Site
Job Details
Are you ready to take the next step in your career and lead a dynamic, growth-oriented business? This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking company as a General Manager, with a focus on driving sales, business growth and performance to meet the corporate objectives and targets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a highly skilled team within the delivery of engineered products across a range of sectors, fostering performance, accountability, and a collaborative culture.
- Drive and deliver against strategic growth plans to achieve sustainable revenue while increasing in sales and margin improvement.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities, engaging proactively with key accounts while expanding services and products to meet customer demands.
- Oversee all operational activities focused on reducing waste, increasing performance and delivering long-term financial stability through effective systems, processes and procedures.
- Manage all profit and loss activities, customer and supplier relations, productivity demands and daily leadership of an SME within a low to medium volume niche engineering environment.
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience with a track record of driving business growth and profitability ideally within an SME.
- Strong commercial and business acumen having the ability to create, develop and execute strategic plans.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with customers, suppliers, and internal teams.
- Experience in supplier development and negotiation, particularly within a manufacturing and/or engineering related industry, fostering long-term partnerships.
- A results-driven mindset with the ability to inspire and motivate a team towards achieving common goals.
This role plays a pivotal part in the company's vision to innovate new products while achieving sustained growth over the next 2 - 3 years. Your CV will be forwarded to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. Contact: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] or phone [contact hidden]. Job Ref: 71127.