General Manager UK/Ireland

UNILIN; Ireland; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fringe benefits

Career opportunities

Challenging overseas assignments

Job summary

Unilin Insulation seeks a General Manager to own a high-impact UK & Ireland business with 230M turnover, 450+ staff, and four sites. You will sit on the Executive Committee and lead growth, operational excellence, and people leadership across functions.

You will travel regularly across the UK and Ireland, shaping strategy, driving efficiency, and delivering measurable expansion while maintaining Zero Harm and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in business, engineering or relevant discipline.
• At least 10 years of senior leadership experience in industrial environments.
• Board-level comfort and strong financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Own full P&L responsibility for UK & Ireland business.
• Set and execute regional commercial and operational strategy.
• Lead four production sites with focus on efficiency, quality, safety, and innovation.
• Translate divisional strategy into ambitious goals across functions.
• Drive innovation and CAPEX decisions to stay competitive.
• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team.
• Maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor market dynamics and product trends to stay agile.

Skills

Senior leadership

P&L management

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Commercial leadership

Education

Degree in business or engineering

Job description

Unilin Insulation is looking for a General Manager who is ready to own a significant, high-impact business with 230 million in turnover, 450+ people, and four production sites across two countries. This is not a maintenance role. It's a mandate to grow, innovate, and lead a market-leading insulation business to its next chapter. You'll sit on the Executive Committee and shape the future of the division alongside a motivated leadership team that values bold thinking, operational excellence, and genuine people leadership.
If you're a commercially sharp, hands-on executive who thrives in complex environments and gets energy from building things.

• Owning full P&L responsibility for the UK & Ireland business, including budget definition and delivery across all functional areas.
• Setting and executing the regional commercial and operational strategy with a sharp focus on market leadership in Ireland and accelerating growth in the UK.
• Leading four production sites with a relentless focus on efficiency, quality, safety, and innovation, embedding a Zero Harm culture across the organization.
• Translating divisional strategy into ambitious, operational goals across sales, marketing, finance, HR, customer service, and technical teams.
• Driving the innovation and sustainability pipeline, including CAPEX investment decisions to keep the business technologically competitive.
• Building and developing a high-performing leadership team, fostering cross-functional collaboration across UK, Ireland, and the wider Unilin organization.
• Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners: clients, industry associations, and business partners.
• Staying closely connected to market dynamics, competitor movements, and product trends to keep the business agile and ahead.
• You will report directly to the President. #LI-MD1

WHO ARE YOU?

• You hold a degree in business, engineering or relevant discipline and are comfortable operating at board level. You bring at least 10 years of senior leadership experience in an industrial or construction-related environment, ideally with multi-site, multi-country accountability.
• You have a proven track record of developing and executing strategic business plans that deliver real, measurable growth.
• You're willing and able to travel regularly across the UK and Ireland as part of the role.
• You are a natural commercial leader with strong financial acumen, and you understand the numbers, you drive the margin. You can make smart decisions under pressure.
• You lead by example: you're direct, transparent, and credible. People follow you because you inspire them. You are a people person and coach, challenge, and develop teams, and you create cultures where ownership, drive, and collaboration thrive.
• You're operationally grounded and understand manufacturing environments and know how to achieve excellence in cost, quality, and safety without sacrificing one for the other.
• You can adapt to complexity and ambiguity, and you bring calm, pragmatic leadership when environments shift fast.

What can you expect?

Unilin is a fast-growing, profitable and bustling group that is active internationally. Innovation is our driving force. Investing in people, technology and sustainable entrepreneurship is characteristic of our culture.

Unilin thrives thanks to a team of colleagues that pride themselves on professionalism and entrepreneurship.

In exchange for your expertise, creativity and dynamism, Unilin offers an attractive salary supplemented with fringe benefits, career opportunities, challenges abroad and a wide range of training options.

Who are we?

Unilin is a worldwide leader in interior design and construction materials. Our floors, (decorative) panels, insulation solutions and technologies can be found in the homes and workplaces of millions of people and public spaces around the world.
Our team of 8600 passionate employees across 105 locations in multiple countries aims to improve people's quality of life by launching new innovations and constantly pushing boundaries. Our commitment to excellence and extensive know-how enable us to make beautiful, sustainable products of the highest quality. And our efforts are rewarded: together we realised a €3.1 billion turnover in 2022. We are also proud to be a part of Mohawk Industries, the global market leader in flooring with a $11.6 billion turnover and 41,000 employees.