Business Unit Director in Dewsbury

The Opportunity: Business Unit Director – Forkway

Contract: Permanent

Location: Forkway / Dewsbury

Forkway is one of the UK’s leading materials handling solutions providers, employing around 100 people across three Handling Centres and several strategic service centres. With over 60 years in business, Forkway has built its reputation by truly listening to customers, understanding their specific needs, and delivering flexible, committed support. This approach has earned us an outstanding reputation for customer service. Forkway is proud to be part of the Briggs Equipment Group — a leading provider of asset management and maintenance solutions across the UK and Ireland. As part of this wider group, we benefit from the strength, resources, and expertise of a major industry leader while maintaining the personal, customer-focused approach that defines Forkway.

If you don’t feel you meet every part of the role criteria outlined below, please don’t let that discourage you from applying. We value potential, passion, and a willingness to grow.

The Impact You Will Have

• Support and deploy the company’s SHEQ strategies and its ever-improving focus of keeping our people safe.
• Foster and drive a company culture of innovation, collaboration and in line with Briggs’ values through effective leadership that results in the business being a supplier and employer of choice.
• Lead the company’s financial management, including optimal resource allocation, Capex, cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Oversee and support critical business decisions on resource allocation, strategic planning, and operational improvements which result in enhanced customer service, reduced cost and increased job satisfaction.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key clients, customers, partners, and industry stakeholders to drive retention and satisfaction resulting in revenue and profit growth in all revenue streams.
• Define and deploy the business strategy ensuring alignment of objectives throughout the organisation to deliver profitable growth in line with Group expectations as cost effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Oversee the recruitment and development of the business management team so that the business attracts, retains, develops and motivates the required number and skilled personnel to fulfil business needs.
• Through leadership and mentoring manage the business units senior leadership and departmental heads to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• Deploy effective asset management procedures to maximize the value of assets throughout their useful lives.
• Ensuring regulatory compliance with all relevant laws and corporate governance practices and company policies.

What Will Help You To Excel In This Role

• Extensive experience of a safety ethos across all areas of operation.
• Significant experience of leading an engineering services based business plus the implementation of strategic and tactical growth plans.
• Significant evidence of leadership skills.
• Extensive experience of persuasion and ability to challenge and communicate at all levels.
• Extensive customer orientation skills with the ability to establish and maintain strong partnerships with customers by gaining their trust and respect and to translate commercial requirements into a practical application within finance practices.
• Demonstrable communication, presentation and IT skills.

What You Can Expect From Us

• Negotiable base salary.
• 15‑20% Bonus based on experience.
• Company Vehicle.
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions up to 6%.
• Bupa Healthcare.
• High street discounts.

What’s Next

If you are interested in joining the Briggs Group then please click on the apply now button and a member of the team will be in touch. Not sure if this is the right role for you? Please feel free to visit the careers page on our website and send us your CV speculatively for a member of the team to review. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the interview process, then please contact a member of the Recruitment team and inform them prior to attending so we can ensure these are met.