A fantastic opportunity has come up for a General Manager to work with a fast-growing packaging company with over 20 years of experience in the packaging machinery and consumers industry. My client offers environmentally friendly packaging to a wide range of services into markets such as food service, supermarkets, industrial and fresh produce.

General Manager
Sector: Packaging & Machinery
Location: Peterborough & Gainsborough
Package: Attractive salary (circa £100k) plus bonus/OTE (up to £16,000 – 20,000k)
25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays 4% pension, hybrid car which can be discussed, flexible salary, free parking, 20% bonus.

The General Manager
Reporting to the Managing Director you will have responsibility including full P&L autonomy but also be expected to help focus the sales effort. You will assume full control of a c£15-30 million turnover site which carries 30-40 staff spanning sales/service, warehousing, purchasing & logistics. Already a profitable site that runs efficiently, you shall leverage all of your leadership and management expertise to build on this success and meet with commercial targets. There is also an extra part to the role as there has been a recent acquisition and this position will now require someone to look after a 2nd site.

Key Responsibilities
• Agree & implement a business plan for the site/region in conjunction with the Managing Director
• Exercising full site P&L control, making commercial decisions & balancing the needs for revenue and profit
• Work in conjunction with the sales team to & actively engage with key customers
• Maximize both sales and profit responsibly by being aware of the profit implications of selling stock products as opposed to non-stock products
• Partner with the National Accounts team, identifying potential new opportunities for business within the site’s territory
• Deal with health & safety issues and manage warehouse process leaning on lean manufacturing processes.
• Provide incentives to staff and maintain KPI’s.
• Encourage and maintain excellent levels of customer service at all times
• Work within the Company’s Policies

Essential
• Experience of managing a similar size/shape operation (single site or more)
• Full P&L responsibility for the operation
• Developing and nurturing current & new employees.
• Have strong commercial acumen.
• Experience of managing a site that houses sales/purchasing as well as logistics
• Demonstrable experience of sales management as well as key account customer involvement

Please note that whilst direct packaging sector experience isn’t essential (although always advantageous), we would prefer candidates to come from a similar or affiliated background.

If you are interested in the position, please can you contact (url removed) or alternatively ring (phone number removed) for more information. “SER-IN”