Managing Director

Our client:

• Ambitious, highly successful food procurement organisation that supports the education, healthcare and contract catering sectors with added value procurement services
• Fantastic values led culture with on a focus on honesty, integrity and teamwork
• Recruiting a Managing Director to develop and drive the next phase of growth whilst focused on sales and profit growth, ensuring quality and customer objectives are delivered.
• This Managing Director role is ideal for forward thinking, inspirational leader, who has a passion for working within the food service industry delivering ambitious growth
• Home based role, ideally based centrally or South

The role:

• The successful Managing Director will be a key member of the leadership team responsible for driving and delivering the vision, mission and values of the company
• In the role the Managing Director will be responsible for the business objectives, operation and financial plan, KPI’s and SLA’s
• Leading a sales and procurement team the Managing Director will inspire, lead and motivate the team to exceed expectations, deliver financial KPI’s and high levels of customer satisfaction.
• The Managing Director will develop and deliver a growth strategy across organic, retention, acquisition and diversification.
• The Managing Director will report results to the shareholders across performance, operational and legislative performance.
• Leading the efficient and effective development of operational policies, procedures and systems, the Managing Director will ensure the company has the correct management structure and organisational design to deliver objectives.
• The Managing Director will embrace and inspire a culture of team work, integrity and honesty.

Ideal candidate:

• You will currently be working as a leader within a procurement or foodservice focused organisation, ideally with a sales, people and operations background. This could be within contract catering, delivered foodservice wholesale or an outsourced procurement consultancy.
• It is essential that you can demonstrate a proven track of leading company operations at board level with full accountability for performance.
• For the Managing Director role you will be an inspirational leader and be proven in delivering results through coaching and developing to create high performing teams.
• You will have excellent financial awareness and will have been involved in negotiating large complex contracts.
• You will be an innovator, with the ability to identify opportunities and grow the business.
• Having excellent communication skills you will be highly personable and be able to build rapport with internal and external stakeholders.
• As Managing Director you will thrive in a fast paced, value led culture which has to constantly adapt to changing priorities and market conditions

Benefits & details:

• Salary up to £120k plus car allowance, bonus and excellent benefits
• Values led culture
• Role is home based with travel across England - ideally live either central or South.

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