High-Value Precision-Engineered Equipment
West Midlands office base
- Are you frustrated by the lack of scope, scale, autonomy or prospects in your current MD/GM role?
- 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, high-value precision-engineered instrumentation & systems.
- Additionally, a provider of high-quality in-house contract services.
- Very profitable, high margin, SME.
- Excellent & expanding global customer base of major Industrial/Manufacturing organisations.
- Significant growth opportunities.
Your experience
- A proven customer-facing Managing Director/General Manager or equivalent.
- Commercial leadership experience in a B2B technical product environment (eg. materials testing equipment, scientific instrumentation, precision-engineered capital equipment etc,) supplying industrial customers.
- Ideally, experience of operating in an Organisation with a service offering.
- 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.
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".
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Managing Director employer: Craggwood Associates Ltd
As a General Manager at this well-established, privately-owned organisation in Swindon, you will be part of a dynamic team that values agility and quality in its operations. The company offers a supportive work culture with significant autonomy, allowing you to lead and innovate while benefiting from excellent growth opportunities and a competitive compensation package. Join a market leader in B2B consumables where your leadership can make a meaningful impact on both the business and its long-standing client relationships.
