Managing Director in Truro

Help Build the Future of Eggs. This isn't just another Managing Director role. It's a chance to help build one of the UK's most distinctive and exciting food businesses. At St Ewe, we've spent years challenging convention, pushing boundaries, and proving that eggs can be so much more than a commodity. Today, we're a multi-award-winning, family-run B Corp business supplying major retailers, foodservice partners, and chefs across the UK. But we're only just getting started.

Our Purpose We strive to crack open the power and potential of every egg.

Our 2030 Mission To build the UK's most distinctive and trusted egg brand, known for exceptional quality, strong farming partnerships and leading the future of eggs. £150m+ sales.

We're looking for an exceptional Managing Director to help lead the next chapter of our journey. Not a corporate caretaker. Not someone looking for a comfortable final role. We're looking for a builder. A leader who thrives on growth, loves developing people and can scale a business without losing what makes it special.

You'll thrive here if you:

• Love building and growing businesses
• Lead with humility, courage, and authenticity
• Are as passionate about people as you are about performance
• Believe business can be a force for good
• Want to leave a lasting legacy, not simply manage the status quo

Our Values Bold. Nurturing. Positive. Transparent. These aren't words on a wall. They shape every decision we make — from how we support our people and farmers to how we care for our hens, customers, and communities. As a certified B Corp, we're committed to building a business that delivers for people, planet, and profit.

If you're ready to help build one of the UK's most loved and trusted food brands, we'd love to hear from you. Being transparent is especially important to us. We believe in being open and honest from the outset - including about the standards we uphold. As part of this, we don’t allow poultry ownership at home for members of our team. It’s an important step in protecting the health and welfare of our hens, as well as maintaining the integrity of the farms we work with.

We’re committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone can thrive, bring their whole self to work, and feel valued for who they are. We know that different perspectives make us stronger - and that’s something we actively encourage as we continue to grow.

If you’re looking for a place where you can make a genuine impact, be part of a supportive team, and grow your career in a business that’s going places, we’d love to hear from you.

What does success look like?

• Provide clear strategic and operational leadership across the business, translating the long-term vision into executable plans, KPIs and outcomes that deliver sustainable, profitable growth.
• Lead the next phase of operational maturity for the business, strengthening systems, processes and infrastructure so that St Ewe can scale sustainably while protecting margins, service levels and brand integrity.
• Partner with the CEO and Board to shape and refresh the strategic plan, ensuring decisions are Bold, data-led and aligned to St Ewe’s family values, B Corp commitments and growth ambitions.
• Lead with Transparency, ensuring colleagues, producers and key partners have clear visibility of priorities, performance and change, and that accountability for delivery is understood at every level.
• Nurture a high-performance, people-first culture that empowers teams, invests in development and protects the unique feel of a growing, family-run, values-led and fun business.
• Champion Positivity, especially during periods of intense growth and change, building resilience, enthusing and celebrating success and ensuring St Ewe remains a great place to work.
• Oversee all operations and business activities, ensuring they are safe, efficient, innovative and aligned with our mission to be leaders of innovation and warriors of welfare.
• Maintain clear oversight of business performance through strong use of financial insight, dashboards and data, ensuring the leadership team has visibility of commercial performance, sales trends and operational priorities.
• Safeguard and grow profitability by controlling costs, driving efficiency, optimising pricing and mix, and identifying new revenue streams across retail, foodservice and liquid egg and farming opportunities.
• Lead continuous improvement and transformation projects that enhance service, scalability and sustainability while protecting the St Ewe brand and customer experience.
• Oversee major capital investment programmes and operational expansion projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget and aligned with the long-term strategy of the business.
• Ensure exceptional, consistent service to all producers and customers, including national retailers, foodservice partners and independent hospitality and bakery/manufacturing clients.
• Maintain deep understanding of the egg and wider food markets, customer trends and regulatory landscape, using insights to inform innovation, diversification and risk management.
• Own strategic risk management across the business, including supply, welfare, compliance, reputation, financial resilience and major change programmes.
• Ensure robust governance, with timely, transparent reporting and recommendations to the CEO and Board, and adherence to all legal, food safety, environmental and certification standards.
• Build and sustain long-term relationships with farmers, customers, family members, regulators, local authorities, industry bodies and community partners, acting as a visible ambassador for St Ewe.
• Maintain strong and visible relationships with St Ewe’s farmer network, ensuring producers feel supported, heard and aligned with the company’s long-term strategy.
• Support the evolution of St Ewe into a broader group structure through strategic partnerships, collaborations and potential future acquisitions.

Leadership and Culture

• Model St Ewe’s Bold, Transparent, Nurturing and Positive values in all leadership behaviours, decisions and communications.
• Create a culture of psychological safety and honest challenge where feedback is encouraged, difficult issues are surfaced early and decisions are explained clearly.
• Mentor, coach and develop the Executive and wider leadership teams, ensuring strong succession pipelines and opportunities for people to grow their careers within St Ewe.
• Protect the family-business ethos as the company scales, ensuring people, flock and planet remain at the heart of decision making.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration that operations, commercial, finance, agriculture, technical, people and marketing teams work together seamlessly to serve producers and customers.
• Act as an integrator across the leadership team, ensuring alignment between operational, commercial, agricultural, technical, marketing, people and finance functions so that the organisation moves forward cohesively.
• Be a visible, hands-on leader who enjoys being close to the operational heartbeat of the business, from farms and producers through to customers and retail partners.

Person Specification

• Proven track record as a Managing Director or senior executive in a high-growth, multi-stakeholder business, ideally within food, FMCG or agriculture.
• Experience leading complex operations and supply chains, with exposure to major UK retailers and/or foodservice customers.
• Demonstrated ability to set and deliver strategy, underpinned by strong skills in planning, forecasting, commercial decision-making, project management and risk management.
• Experience building and sustaining a values-led culture within a scaling or founder- / family-led business.
• Strong financial literacy, including interpreting P&L, balance sheet and cashflow, evaluating investments and managing for long-term value.
• Familiarity with corporate governance, food safety and welfare standards, sustainability frameworks (including B Corp) and relevant UK/EU regulation.
• Desirable: Experience of mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships or joint ventures, including evaluation, negotiation and post-deal integration.
• Experience overseeing major capital investment or operational expansion projects would be advantageous.

Personal Requirements

• Deep alignment with St Ewe’s mission to be leaders of innovation and warriors of welfare, and genuine care for British farming, welfare, food quality and nutrition.
• Naturally values-led leader who is courageous (Bold), open and honest (Transparent), empathetic towards people and welfare-centric (Nurturing) and solutions-focused (Positive).
• Empathy with and understanding of the agricultural community and rural economies.
• High energy, resilience and the ability to operate at pace with multiple, often competing priorities.
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, able to engage confidently with colleagues at all levels, farmers, customers, media and external stakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong sense of commerciality, curiosity and appetite for innovation, underpinned by disciplined execution and attention to detail.
• The role suits a commercially minded “intrapreneur” – someone who combines entrepreneurial energy with the discipline required to scale a complex operational business and a great sense of humour!
• Analytical, data-driven approach combined with sound judgement and a practical, hands-on style suited to a growing, family-run, values-led business.

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance (Family cover)
• Simply Health Cash Back plan
• 33 Days annual leave
• Bonus scheme
• 3x salary life assurance
• Free eggs!
• Team days