Location: Basildon area, South Essex (office-based, five days a week)
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Salary: Up to £90,000 depending on experience
Package: Performance-related bonus, share options for the right person, pension scheme and 22 days' holiday plus bank holidays
Hours: 40 hours a week, full time, permanent
The Opportunity
Pursuit is partnering with a well-established specialist services business in the building compliance and property services sector. It delivers assessment, installation, maintenance, remedial and certification work for residential, commercial and property-sector clients across London, Essex and the South East.
The business has a strong reputation, a loyal client base and real momentum. It now needs an experienced commercial and operational leader to turn that momentum into structured, profitable and scalable growth. This is a senior, high-impact appointment. You'll report directly to an entrepreneurial Board and take full day-to-day responsibility for how the business performs, grows and runs.
The Board sets the vision. You'll make it happen.
The Role
You'll lead the business across sales, operations, finance, people and systems. You'll turn the Board's objectives into clear plans, measurable targets and visible results. The aim is to build a business that is well managed, commercially disciplined and able to run without the directors' routine involvement.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial growth and sales
- Own revenue targets and build a disciplined, measurable sales pipeline
- Improve conversion at every stage, from enquiry through quotation to order
- Grow repeat and recurring business with existing clients
- Open up new clients, sectors and routes to market, and reduce reliance on a small number of clients or one-off projects
- Make sure major opportunities are actively managed and followed through
Profitability and financial performance
- Take responsibility for gross margin, EBITDA and performance against budget xgikmsk
- Make sure work is priced correctly and expected margins are understood before work is committed
- Improve visibility of job-by-job profitability, and use it to shape pricing and operational decisions
- Identify and fix margin leakage, overspend and rework
- Control overheads, and make sure any new spending or headcount is commercially justified
- Work closely with the finance function so that decisions rest on reliable numbers
Operations and delivery
- Keep clear oversight of live jobs, workload, capacity and priorities
- Make sure work is planned, resourced and scheduled well, and delivered to standard, on programme and wi...
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