Managing Director

Ref: BBBH: 515962

London

£180,000

• Permanent
• Available Immediately

About the candidate

This candidate has a wealth of experience in FMCG brands and is a highly accomplished Managing Director who combines exceptional performance with a profound sense of purpose and unwavering optimism. They have a proven track record of increasing the size of businesses using strategies coupled with financial plans for delivering excellent results. They are a very high calibre Managing Director with an impressive background.

Some of their strengths include but not limited to; Growing FMCG brands, continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, improving ROI, stakeholder engagement, and more.

What makes them great?

• Skilled networker with contacts all over the food industry from investors to start ups and retailers
• Can focus in on strategic imperatives using principles like 4DX and move a team to action
• Can influence key stakeholders using reasoned plans and sound business logic removing emotion from the equation
• Business growth using fully costed strategies
• Superb operations pedigree including operational excellence, safety, engineering, supply chain and manufacturing
• Identifying signals in the market and funnelling these down to practical future opportunities, threats, and risks to the company

Areas of expertise

• In their last position this candidate managed businesses across 2 geographies with a combined revenue of £200m encompassing full P&L responsibility and strategic direction
• Doubled the size of the business in Europe form £15m turnover to £30m via NPD, EPD and targeting new customers
• Consultancy for 5 different companies ranging from £1m investment to £100m
• Project Director for £28.5m new factory building. Launched new drink lines, processing, filling, robot palletisers, formulation, and sterilised equipment, employed and trained 50 new staff in 12 months
• Created and led profit from the core sessions where the team could identify profitable and unprofitable product lines which resulted in an increase in profitability £1m p.a