General Manager Operations

General Manager Operations Cambridgeshire | 85,000 to 95,000 plus bonus, company car and benefits | Defined route to Operations Director Most operations roles at this level arrive with the structure already built, the plan already written and somebody above you who owns both.

You inherit a machine and you are measured on keeping it running.

This is not one of those roles.

You are being asked to lead an operation that works well today, and to build the version of it that will carry a business through the most significant period of growth in its recent history.

The organisation A privately owned, multi-site logistics business with a long trading history and a deliberate position in the market.

It specialises in food and food ingredients, handling storage, distribution, container work, value added services and contract packing for clients who have stayed with it for decades rather than for contract terms.

It has grown steadily and profitably, it is conservatively financed, and it has never had any interest in winning work on price alone.

What it sells is precision and care.

Customers use it because their goods are handled properly, because problems are spotted before they become costs, and because the same people answer the phone year after year.

That is a genuine commercial position rather than a marketing line and protecting it while the business grows is a real part of this job.

The business now intends to double t...