Managing Director

Direct message the job poster from Craggwood Associates Ltd Supplying Materials Researchers/Surface Scientists globally c.£120k Basic + Substantial Bonus Potential + Share Options North West England office base.

Are you frustrated by the lack of scope, scale, autonomy or prospects in your current MD/GM role? Or, are you an outstanding Commercial/Sales & Marketing Director obviously ready for your first MD position? Are you looking to further grow a successful and market-leading technical business that develops, builds and sells all its own products globally?

Our Client is an integral part of a highly successful UK listed Group of Companies. The Group prides itself on giving the MDs of its many separate market-leading businesses an extraordinary combination of operational autonomy, mentoring and financial support. In return it expects them to lead and improve their businesses with exceptional skill and vision, and deliver progressive growth, by continually creating great new products and improving sales around the world.

The Company

• Well established and highly respected Designer, Manufacturer & Supplier of innovative, market leading, scientific instruments, systems and accessories.
• Very profitable, high margin, SME.
• Excellent & expanding global customer base: Industrial Laboratories, Research Institutes, Academia and OEMs.
• Significant growth opportunities.

Your experience

• Either a proven customer-facing Managing Director/General Manager or a Commercial/Sales & Marketing Director looking for their first MD role.
• Commercial leadership experience in a B2B technical product environment (eg. materials testing equipment, scientific instrumentation, precision engineering etc,) supplying industrial laboratories, academic/research institutions and, preferably, OEMs.
• Degree qualified in an Engineering, Electronics, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, or other STEM discipline.
• Proven experience of managing & developing a Management Team to continually raise competence and aspirations across the business.
• Strong commercial awareness and, preferably, international experience.

Your Style and Skills

• Outwards looking, market driven – you enjoy understanding market trends and direction and are able to map strategy onto this.
• Confident and keen to take personal responsibility for leading and growing the business consistently and profitably.
• Intellectually strong and able to distil complex problems into simple solutions - but yet pragmatic, determined and practical enough to ensure that the resulting actions are enacted and delivered with pace.
• Financially literate and astute – and able to identify and manage the changing balance between control and investment as necessary.
• Inclusive, open and fair, but with a determination that you and your team deliver to your commitments.
• A passion to continually improve every aspect of a business.

Good motorway links mean that the offices are commutable from most locations in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire. This is an outstanding opportunity to take an already successful Business, and your career, to the next level, then grow further within a highly regarded listed Group.

Having spent many years in the recruitment industry, this Group is one of the ones I get most excited about working with each time. Honesty, integrity and fairness are the values that they live by, coupled with a culture that supports the personal and professional development of their staff. Every candidate that I place here always reports the same thing back when I follow up with them: “what a great bunch of people to work for”.

How to apply

To apply, please forward full CV to David Rawlins at Craggwood Associates Ltd via: dr@craggwoodassociates.co.uk Telephone: 07903 288820.