Managing Director

Are you ambitious and driven by success? Do you have a great work ethic and are motivated by exceeding targets? Can you bring a unique set of skills to a business?

If yes, we have an exciting career opportunity at a leading multi-million-pound distributor of steel products based in Cornwall. This forward-thinking company takes a diverse outlook on their recruiting process and think its business critical that they recruit the best people who share their vision, because they recognise their employees are their greatest assets.

The company that we are recruiting for requires a highly motivated Managing Director who will ideally come from a distribution/engineering background that has an entrepreneurial spirit and is looking to dictate their own career path within a company that will help them realise their full potential within this fast paced, challenging and dynamic business.

Skills required from the successful candidate:

* Strong communication skills

* Will be required to measure all areas of the service centres activities by working with and through all members of staff from the sales team to warehouse staff

* Implement and measure strategies to urgently return any underperforming areas to required levels of performance

* Leadership abilities

* Will have autonomy over the service centre and will lead, develop and motivate a competent local team and inspire high performance through strong, consistent leadership.

* Ability to identify new business opportunities

* Take a detailed interest in all key customers and targets, ensuring proactive customer contacts are of a high standard and are adequately recorded on the companies CRM system

* Set and work to an agreed sales plan with the sales team whilst implementing measurements and targets for ongoing levels of proactive customer contact by monitoring activity and shaping strategy

* Continually develop the customer base to provide long term growth

* Strong organisational skills

* Have a secure knowledge of finance and be able to implement changes to the service centre where required

* Implement procedures into the company for all aspects of stock control and management

* Commercially aware

* Having a broad knowledge of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in standard and special grades and forms is an advantage but not essential

* Monitor the key components of the service centre''s return on investment on a monthly basis and identify areas for improvement

* Key Words

* The ideal candidate would be a natural leader, confident, self-starter, a team player, proactive, have honesty and integrity, be influential, accurate, a creative thinker, a good negotiator and will be ambitious.

Examples of your day-to-day role:

You would have autonomy over the depot and will report directly to the Chairman carrying out daily duties which include:

* Managing the day-to-day operations of the service centre

* Recruiting and mentoring staff

* Playing an active part of the sales team as and when required

* Maximising growth and profitability of the service centre by analysing turnover and profitability

* Ensuring that high levels of service are maintained by all members of staff

* Hitting monthly/yearly individual and team targets

* Holding team meetings

* Managing a customer base and developing plans to increase business

* Managing stock levels

* Monitoring health and safety withing the service centre

* Negotiating with suppliers

* Liaise with customers to make sure they are satisfied with the service centres performance