Executive MD, Print & Packaging: Drive Strategy

  • Harrison Scott Associates
  • Feb 28, 2026
Full time Manufacturing

Job Description

Job Overview

Salary: £90,000 to £120,000 per annum (depending on experience)

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to:

Contact
  • Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -
  • Head of Print recruitment - Neil Pearson -
  • Head Paper recruitment - Gary Young -

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies - Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

Opportunity

Outstanding opportunity to join a company that has continually invested in technology to place them at the forefront of the printing world. They have shown innovation and embraced the need to adapt to an ever changing market.

Responsibilities

Steering the company to the most profitable direction while implementing vision, mission and long-term goals will require a strategist and a leader. Strategies will ensure the company is constantly moving towards fulfilling objectives both short and long term, and that it does not diverge from strategic guidelines set out by the board.

Forward thinking is at the heart of what this print pioneer does, so exhibiting this personality trait is paramount. You will have shown true innovation in previous senior managerial roles and will continue to do so throughout your tenure, improving processes through the implementation of lean manufacturing methods. These skills will have been honed through a career of working up the ranks in production/operations roles. It is inevitable that when there are so many variables to consider in an industry like print, everything doesn't always go to plan. Most of the time you can count on there being some deviation from the original blueprint, so as managing director you must adapt to changes and make quick operational adjustments when required. Solutions to any problems will not always be obvious and straightforward, but you will show you have the capacity to think outside the box to formulate new methodologies - these are the exact qualities our client is looking for to be their next Managing Director.

Qualifications

For confidentiality reasons, we can't give a precise location in this ad, however we will reveal this information to any candidate whose experience is in line with what our client is looking for. The client will only consider candidates from the print or packaging sectors who have experience in the last 5 years of managing a company with a minimum of 50 staff.

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We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx).

Being the largest recruitment company in print, packaging and paper we receive new vacancies on a daily basis. The software we use to "skill match" can "read" a word document but not a PDF. You will be considered for many more positions if your CV is in word format.

The following section is OPTIONAL however if you have the time it would help tremendously in us matching you to over 300 positions (the average number we have at any one time).