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Managing Director

Employer
McBride Sport
Location
Greater Manchester (GB)
Salary
To attract the best
Closing date
3 Jun 2019

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Sector
Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Operations, Sales, Strategy, Project / Programme Management
Position/Level
Managing Director, Director
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English

Job Details

About The Business

Brewster McBride: Search and Selection are working in partnership with Boxes and Packaging (Manchester) as they look to recruit a Managing Director from the corrugated packaging sector to run their Bredbury and Bolton manufacturing sites.

Boxes and Packaging operate from 12 different locations across the country and offers the UK’s largest independent national sheet plant network, supplying a full range of customers with the design and manufacture of bespoke corrugated packaging solutions and in-house printing, along with a range of ancillary packaging products. 

About The Role:

This role will have overall responsibility for the running of day to day operations across 2 sites, with a combined turnover of £8m. Managing the Sales, Operations and Finance teams you will take the lead in implementing the 5 year strategic plan, driving a culture of continuous improvement, commercial and operational excellence.

You will establish, manage and monitor standards, processes, communications, training and systems to ensure all aspects of the company’s operations are aligned to the budgeted objectives of the business. Key responsibilities of this role include:

  • Implementing the Northern Regions five year strategic plan., managing major change projects throughout the programme
  • Developing and maintaining a customer focused business culture
  • Holding regular meetings with the senior management team to review all aspects of operational performance, reporting findings to the Regional Director on a monthly basis
  • Working closely with the sales representatives to drive the sales strategy and sales performance
  • Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with major customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.
  • Representing the company in negotiations with customers, suppliers and other key contacts

More About You :

To be successful in this role it is essential that you demonstrate significant experience of working with corrugated packaging in a Senior Management or Board Level position. You will be a natural leader who has delivered operational and cultural change projects, and who demonstrates strong commercial acumen. The site plans to receive significant investment as part of the 5 year plan so will need a person with significant change management experience.

If you are a Senior Commercial or Operations manager looking to take your first MD position, or a current MD looking for a new challenge in the corrugated sector this could be the ideal opportunity.

                                                                                                                                             

Brewster McBride are working in exclusive partnership with Boxes and Packaging and all third party or direct applications will be forward on the Brewster McBride to be included in the recruitment process

 

Company

Our executive search process starts by gaining a detailed understanding of the unique characteristics, medium and long term goals of each client, the specific leadership roles and competencies needed to meet those goals, and the culture of the organisation. Focusing on these underlying qualities allows us to take a broader, more creative approach to identifying potential candidates which is a key requirement of search exercises in the modern market. Our consulting team draws on its high-level professional networks, industry knowledge and internal research resources to give it a broad reach in identifying potential candidates.

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