General Manager

Quarsh; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global firm in Birmingham is seeking a General Manager to enhance its leadership team. The role demands strong commercial acumen, excellent leadership skills, and experience in a manufacturing environment. You will drive performance improvements while balancing customer needs and commercial objectives. With a focus on people and safety, the ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering growth and managing operational systems effectively. This challenging role is positioned in one of their flagship operations, requiring a commitment to excellence.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role within a manufacturing or processing environment.
• Successful track record in delivering profitable growth in a demanding business environment.
• Ability to work seamlessly between strategic discussions and operational details.

Responsibilities

• Drive and motivate the leadership team for performance improvements.
• Balance customer needs with commercial objectives.
• Support team decisions and ensure safety and career development.

Skills

Strong commercial acumen

Excellent leadership credentials

Experience in building high-performing teams

Influencing skills

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent

Job description

Our client is a global leader in its field, with a keen focus on sustainability. The Midlands site is one of its flagship operations, with a long and strong track record in providing services to a range of customers, including some of the biggest brands in food, healthcare and hospitality. With a strong management team in place, it now seeks to strengthen its leadership team with the appointment of a General Manager.

This is a business in which hard work, humility and resilience are not only valued but essential. You will be driven and motivated, able to work at pace, while possessing the confidence to ask for support and consensus when you need it. You'll have the ability to move seamlessly between Board meetings, in which you're analysing and discussing your P&L to the nth degree, and the operational shop floor, where you'll be discussing maintenance schedules for capital equipment. You're used to being across the detail without getting involved in every little thing, supporting your team to make the right decisions. People matter to you, both in terms of their safety and their career development.

You should be able to demonstrate sound commercial acumen and a successful track record in an equivalent position within a similar industry. You will have experience in a manufacturing or processing environment and should be very comfortable with operational systems and processes, including effective logistics. You will have consistently delivered profitable growth in a demanding business environment.

In particular, we are looking for:

• Strong commercial acumen, able to balance customer needs against commercial objectives
• Solid experience at the strategic level
• Excellent leadership credentials, capable of leading varied teams to deliver strong results
• Experienced in building highly performing teams
• An influencer, able to work effectively with people at all levels across an organisation

You should be qualified to degree level or equivalent and will demonstrate experience of driving performance in a similar role, where high customer service levels are essential to ensure continued success.