General Manager

Ready to take full ownership and transform a manufacturing operation? This General Manager role offers the chance to lead a business with significant commercial and operational potential. You'll have autonomy to shape culture, drive operational improvements, and build a proactive commercial strategy - all backed by ambitious owners. With a strong foundation, loyal customer base, and recent investment in production capacity, you'll be the catalyst for genuine change and growth. If you're looking for a role where you can make a real impact, influence the future direction, and progress into broader leadership as the group expands, this is your opportunity.

Reporting to the CEO, you will be responsible for:

• Introducing accountability, performance standards and structured ways of working
• Identifying and implementing efficiency improvements
• Increasing output and capacity utilisation, reviewing workflows and supporting automation
• Improving operational controls, reporting and reducing key-person dependencies
• Developing stronger relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners
• Building proactive sales activity and commercial planning, exploring growth and diversification opportunities
• Helping shape the long-term future of the business and supporting integration into a wider group structure

What you will need:

• Proven leadership experience, ideally as a General Manager or similar (Operations Manager, Site Manager, Plant Manager)
• Strong people management skills and stakeholder management ability
• Commercial mindset with experience driving change and improving performance
• Ability to challenge existing ways of working and build accountability and structure
• Experience in manufacturing, operational improvement or multi-site/acquisitive business environments highly desirable
• Manufacturing, packaging or production sector experience is a bonus, but leadership, commercial acumen and change management capability are most important

What you will get:

• Significant autonomy and ownership to shape culture, operations and growth strategy
• Genuine opportunity to progress into regional or group leadership as the business expands
• Backing from acquisitive and ambitious owners

If you would like to find out more about this role, please apply with your CV or LinkedIn PDF. We look forward to hearing from you!

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