Commercial Director

Parkinson Lee Executive Search are the retained partner to an industry leading manufacturing business based in the Midlands, in the appointment of a Commercial Director. Our client is part of a £75M t / o group of businesses owned by Private Equity.

Reporting to and working closely with the Group CEO and wider leadership team, you will be responsible for the P&L of a c£10 million turnover business and tasked with overseeing its commercial growth strategy.

The company is going through a period of transformation and is poised for significant expansion over the next 3 years through several routes, including new product launches, expanding export sales, and increasing new domestic sales channels.

This role would require someone to be onsite in the Midlands, ideally 4 days per week, with travel to their customer portfolio nationally and internationally (when required).

We are keen to identify individuals with Furniture, Textiles, Seating, Medical Products or Healthcare sector experience.

As the Commercial Director you will :

• Actively participate in driving double-digit annual sales growth whilst driving monthly performance of the businesses and being in complete control of cash and margins
• Drive the commercial output of the business across sales, marketing and customer account management to increase revenues and bottom line profit
• Working closely with the business leadership teams on short, medium and long-term strategy incorporating sales development and new product launches
• Be a role model to the Management Team actively developing and mentoring both as a group and on an individual basis
• Supporting the operations director to deliver improvements and efficiencies across the manufacturing site to improve efficiency and margins
• Strengthen systems, processes and controls where required and enforce daily disciplines into all areas of the business
• Install effective management of working capital, specifically cash collection and stock
• Ensure strategic alignment with the Group and maximise cost synergies
• Comply with Group reporting requirements

Parkinson Lee Executive Search are looking to speak with commercial business leaders with the following skills & experience :

In return our client is offering a £Six figure salary + benefits + equity