Managing Director

Craggwood Associates Ltd; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Craggwood Associates Ltd. seeks a proven Managing Director/General Manager to lead a high-value precision-engineered equipment business from its West Midlands base. You will shape strategy, oversee product development, and drive growth across global markets.

The role requires strong commercial leadership, a track record in B2B technical equipment, and the ability to develop a high-performance management team to deliver ambitious objectives.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in a customer-facing MD/GM role.
• Experience leading a B2B technical product environment and services.
• Experience building and developing a Management Team to raise competence.
• Degree in Engineering, Electronics, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry or other STEM field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the business profitably and sustainably.
• Translate market trends into actionable strategy.
• Develop and empower a high-performing Management Team.
• Drive international growth and maintain a strong global customer base.

Skills

Commercial leadership

Strategic planning

International experience

Management team development

Education

STEM degree

Job description

High-Value Precision-Engineered Equipment

West Midlands office base

• Are you frustrated by the lack of scope, scale, autonomy or prospects in your current MD/GM role?
• Are you looking to further grow a successful and market-leading technical business that develops, builds and sells all its own products globally?

Our Client is an integral part of a highly successful UK listed Group of Companies. The Group prides itself on giving the MDs of its many separate market-leading businesses an extraordinary combination of operational autonomy, mentoring and financial support. In return it expects them to lead and improve their businesses with exceptional skill and vision, and deliver progressive growth, by continually creating great new products and improving sales around the world.

The Company

• Well established and highly respected Designer, Manufacturer & Supplier of innovative, market leading, high-value precision-engineered instrumentation & systems.
• Additionally, a provider of high-quality in-house contract services.
• Very profitable, high margin, SME.
• Excellent & expanding global customer base of major Industrial/Manufacturing organisations.
• Significant growth opportunities.

Your experience

• A proven customer-facing Managing Director/General Manager or equivalent.
• Commercial leadership experience in a B2B technical product environment (eg. materials testing equipment, scientific instrumentation, precision-engineered capital equipment etc,) supplying industrial customers.
• Ideally, experience of operating in an Organisation with a service offering.
• Degree qualified in an Engineering, Electronics, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, or other STEM discipline.
• Proven experience of managing & developing a Management Team to continually raise competence and aspirations across the business.
• Strong commercial awareness and, preferably, international experience.

Your Style and Skills

• Outwards looking, market driven – you enjoy understanding market trends and direction and are able to map strategy onto this.
• Confident and keen to take personal responsibility for leading and growing the business consistently and profitably.
• Intellectually strong and able to distil complex problems into simple solutions - but yet pragmatic, determined and practical enough to ensure that the resulting actions are enacted and delivered with pace.
• Financially literate and astute – and able to identify and manage the changing balance between control and investment as necessary.
• Inclusive, open and fair, but with a determination that you and your team deliver to your commitments.
• A passion to continually improve every aspect of a business.

This is an outstanding opportunity to take an already successful Business, and your career, to the next level, then grow further within a highly regarded listed Group. Having spent many years in the recruitment industry, this Group is one of the ones I get most excited about working with each time. Honesty, integrity and fairness are the values that they live by, coupled with a culture that supports the personal and professional development of their staff. Every candidate that I place here always reports the same thing back when I follow up with them: "what a great bunch of people to work for".