Managing Director

Mears; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organization is seeking a Managing Director to lead its North Lanarkshire Enterprise Contract. You will drive strategic direction, operational performance, and commercial success. The role demands extensive senior leadership experience and strong relationship management abilities, along with a commitment to high-quality customer service and continuous improvement. Join a supportive senior leadership team dedicated to meaningful community impact.

Benefits

Attractive remuneration

Car allowance

Pension plan

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in senior leadership within repairs, maintenance, or housing.
• Ability to manage budgets and interpret P&L reports.
• Proven track record in achieving operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for North Lanarkshire Enterprise Contract.
• Ensure compliance with governance and legislative requirements.
• Build and motivate a high-performing management team.
• Drive the delivery of social value commitments.

Skills

Relationship management

Strategic leadership

Budget management

Operational excellence

Communication skills

Job description

Location: North Lanarkshire

Contract: Full time, permanent

Reporting to: Chief Operating Officer

Senior leadership role offering an attractive remuneration and benefits package, including pension & car allowance.

About the Role

Mears Group is seeking an exceptional senior leader to take responsibility for the strategic direction, operational performance and commercial success of our North Lanarkshire Enterprise Contract. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping a high performing, customer focused service across repairs, maintenance, compliance, investment works and social value delivery.

As Managing Director, you will bring strong strategic leadership, excellent relationship management and an ability to inspire teams to deliver outstanding services for our clients and communities. You will ensure that our operations are commercially sound, efficient and aligned to ongoing business growth.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the strategy and direction for the North Lanarkshire Enterprise Contract, ensuring alignment with Mears Group objectives and local business plans.
• Ensure the branch operates on strong commercial and professional principles, with continuous improvement embedded throughout service delivery.
• Review the external market environment and drive the evolution of services to maximise opportunities and maintain competitive advantage.
• Own forward looking budgets in partnership with the senior team and Central Finance.

Client and Stakeholder Relationships

• Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with North Lanarkshire Council and other key clients.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities through excellent client relationship management and thought leadership.
• Represent Mears through external networking, enhancing our reputation and visibility across the sector.

People Leadership

• Build, lead and motivate a high performing management team and wider workforce, maintaining strong relationships with employees and trade unions.
• Promote and live the company culture, ensuring clear communication throughout the branch and a positive working environment.
• Lead recruitment, selection, development and succession planning for the senior team, ensuring HR best practice is consistently applied.

Governance, Compliance and Operational Excellence

• Ensure full compliance with all governance, health and safety, environmental and legislative requirements.
• Maintain exceptional service delivery standards across repairs, maintenance, compliance and investment works, meeting all KPIs, SPIs and contractual obligations.
• Ensure credible and effective subcontractor management across all operational activity.
• Provide expert advice to the wider Mears leadership team on performance, procurement, supply chain and operational standards.
• Take overall responsibility for leading and driving the delivery of our social value commitments within the North Lanarkshire Enterprise Contract. This includes ensuring meaningful community impact, successful delivery of all agreed social value activities and the development and coordination of apprenticeship opportunities across the contract.

About You

We are looking for a confident and influential leader who can operate effectively across a wide range of stakeholders. You will bring extensive experience in a senior leadership role within a repairs, maintenance, housing or local authority related environment, along with strong commercial awareness and the ability to manage budgets, interpret P&L reports and drive financial performance.

You will have a proven ability to cultivate senior networks, influence decision making and represent the organisation externally. A track record of achieving operational excellence in a demanding and high-performance environment is essential, as are exceptional communication skills and the ability to galvanise teams through clear direction and strong relationship building.

Experience of working productively with trade unions is important, as is a genuine commitment to delivering high quality customer service and driving continuous improvement.

Measures of Success

Your performance will be assessed against:

• Financial metrics including net profit, budget expenditure, WIP and debt levels.
• Operational performance including client and internal KPIs and customer satisfaction.
• People performance including appraisals, retention, churn and sickness levels.
• Delivery of social value commitments including community activities and apprenticeship opportunities.

Why Join Mears

This is a highly influential leadership position where your work will directly shape service delivery, community outcomes and the long-term success of our North Lanarkshire operations. You will join a supportive and ambitious senior leadership team that is committed to delivering meaningful impact for our clients and the communities we serve.