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General Manager

Ref: 645135

Canterbury, UK

£55,000 | £400 per day

  • Permanent / Contract
  • Operations Transformation
  • Logistics And Manufacturing Leadership
  • Immediately Available

About the candidate

This candidate is a hands-on operations and transformation leader with over 20 years’ experience across logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution and home delivery. They have led large-scale UK operations, including national delivery networks, high-volume production environments and multi-site logistics functions, with a strong track record of improving profitability, compliance and operational performance.

More recently, they have founded and led technology-led businesses, adding experience in product leadership, distributed team management, programme delivery, stakeholder engagement and governance. They are now looking to return to a traditional operational or transformation leadership role where they can combine strategic thinking with practical, frontline delivery.

What makes them great?

  • Commercial turnaround experience: Successfully transformed a loss-making national home delivery operation into an annual profit centre worth around £1m+, through structural change, cost control and operational discipline.
  • Large-scale delivery capability: Has overseen UK-wide logistics activity supporting 80,000+ deliveries per week, as well as direct-to-consumer operations delivering 9,000 boxes per week.” The 80,000 is end, the 9000 was the start, one journey, not separate achievements.
  • Proven people and process leadership: Managed teams of up to 130 warehouse operatives and led high-volume manufacturing of around 500,000 units per week, improving stability, safety and compliance standards.

Areas of expertise

  • Operational Leadership: Experienced in leading logistics, manufacturing, distribution and home delivery operations across large teams, multiple shifts and complex service models.
  • Transformation & Continuous Improvement: Strong background in restructuring operations, implementing systems, improving processes and turning underperforming functions into scalable, compliant operations.
  • Systems, Compliance & Change: High level of IT competency with experience delivering SAP-driven traceability, production tracking, voice-picking technology, automation and governance-led change.