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Area Operations Manager

Depot Network

Midlands / Yorkshire / North West

£45K - £50K basic plus excellent bonus and package

Our client is a highly recognisable, market leading, house hold name providing a multi-disciplinary support and product service offering to a very wide reaching client base. The business has an excellent reputation for customer service, product development, commercial integrity and an over-arching people first philosophy. The business has a turnover of c£120 million, is profitable, and is poised for growth. In order for the business to meet its long term growth objectives, it has identified the need to enhance their capability and competence and increase accordingly at the Area Operations Manager level.

The Role

Reporting to the Regional Operations Director you will be tasked to ensure the delivery of the annual budget, people, customer and business process objectives of a region. This could comprise of up to ten depots.

You must be able to effectively balance short-term operational priorities with longer-term strategic objectives, whilst creating a consistent Best in Class approach across all depot activities, to ensure the delivery of strategic objectives in line with company values. Effective people management and the ability to influence are critical to this role.

The role is focused on cost management, customer service, asset management and utilisation (people and vehicles) as well as ensuring all agreed policies (Audit, H&S, HR, Quality) and corporate procedures are adhered to and appropriate actions taken to address non-compliance.

Experience

The ideal candidate for this role would be a Senior Depot / Branch / Area / Operations Manager with demonstrable success in line management, most likely running either a very large successful single branch looking for progression, or running a multi - depot operation but needing a fresh challenge.

The successful candidate will be highly data driven, understand the need for customer consistency and experience and to that end applications are welcomed from the retail, tool hire, vehicle hire, parcel delivery, logistics and distribution sectors, where candidates can effectively demonstrate excellent leadership, customer service and people skills and the ability to run highly profitable branch networks.

The ability to adapt and react to changing circumstances, and work in a time critical environment, whilst leading and influencing change, is a pre-requisite. The skill to recognise and develop the individual training needs of Depot Managers and meet those needs through a range of coaching activities will also ensure success.

Design Manager

Commercial Design and Build

South West based

£45K plus benefits

Our client is one of the UKs leading commercial design and build specialists. With over 20 years experience, the business is synonymous for producing quality and bespoke interiors from both its London and South West base. The business has built a phenomenal reputation for exceeding its clients expectations and to that end boasts a very high degree of repeat client work from some of the worlds most instantly recognisable brands. With a team of dedicated, highly talented and focused leaders the business culture is fast paced and vibrant and does not suffer from the politics and bureaucracy of other organisations. A need has arisen to recruit an experienced Design Manager to join the business in a senior capacity who has the ability and desire to be part of helping shape the future success of the organisation.

The Role
This is a key role within the business where you will become the hub between sales, projects and installation to ensure client satisfaction is achieved. The role will call for a lot of client facing activity, supporting the bid teams on new and existing enquiries and given the high activity and work load, you will also be responsible for providing the leadership, management, mentoring and training of a small department of 6 designers, allocating resource as appropriate to meet internal and external client demand. You must have the ability to manage multiple projects, prioritising and planning as appropriate to ensure timely delivery as well as the ability to work in a highly pressurised environment. We are ideally looking for an individual who has extensive previous experience within the commercial design and build arena, where experience has been gained within an environment renowned for quality and innovation.

The Candidate
We are looking for an individual who is looking for a career and not a job. The opportunity to join the leadership team is realistic and the potential to be a key part of delivering the business strategy is within your remit. As an individual you need to be charismatic, possess great leadership qualities and have the ability to inspire individuals around you as well as an inherent ability to see the wood from the trees. It is expected that you will have already managed or be managing a team of designers, be fully familiar with CAD, Sketch-up and In-Design software packages in addition to having great presence and presentation skills. We are not looking for a political player nor do we want an individual who does not see the benefit of integrating with other functions and, as such, are themselves an insular individual.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing and thriving business. This may suit an individual looking to get out of the London rat race who still wishes to get the scale, quality and variety of work in a far more collegiate environment.

Project Manager

£50,000

South East

Manufacturing/ NPD

My client is a well established international business floated on the UK stock market, due to a planned strengthening of its NPD - NPI function an opportunity has arisen to hire a proven project manager to sit within this function.

It will be the project managers responsibility to manage the flow of all projects that run through this function ensuring that product development process is managed effectively, and it complies with the project framework, all appropriate project documents are created and all stage gates are passed, before progressing to the next stage of the project.

You will manage all project communications, track progress, report key issues/ risks and support the project lead with managing milestones.

A back ground within manufacturing environment is highly advantageous as is international experience and working within an environment which includes using sub contract suppliers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team of experts. You will have the exposure to a broad range of projects and an environment which encourages empowerment.

To find out more please forward your CV to terry.ellis@burnscarlton.com

Project Manager

£45,000

M4 Corridor/ Middlesex

My Client is a FTSE 250 organisation which has changed its strategy away from a value proposition to one which focuses on quality and value add.

As a result they have invested heavily in building their product development and product innovation function, which has lead to the hiring of several high calibre subject matter experts.

With the new product pipeline growing at a rapid rate a professional project manager is sought to bring a robust approach to project management in order to ensure that recognised process is adopted using technologies such as Prince 2 or MSP

Experience of new product development or white goods would be advantageous (but not essential) it is more important that you have an optimistic outlook and possess a can-do-attitude with demonstrable track record for effective project management.

Project Manager - Product Development

South East

£45,000

White Goods

My Client listed on the FTSE 250 is currently developing its product development capability and as a result needs to hire an experienced Project Manager to help ensure that projects are delivered internationally on time and in budget.
The role has several key deliverables.

• Management of matrix cross departmental project teams.


• Create project plans with cross functional teams ensuring deliverables and documented, resources allocated and timelines established.


• Ensure project milestones are reached, that decision gate documents are provided and signed off by the product board and that the online portal is up to date including RAID register.


• Ultimately ensure that product projects are progressing to plan and not escalate risk issues and dependences to Product Innovation and Steering Committee.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well known progressive group, Product Innovation and NPD employs a small but very able/ motivated high caliber team, if appointed you can look forward to a broad based challenging career orientated role with a business committed to people development.

In the first instance please forward your CV to Terry Ellis

Quality Manager - Clean Room

Pan European

Belgium/ Holland/ France/ Germany

60,000¬

My Client listed on the London stock markets are planning to expand its Pan- European Clean Room Service.

A newly appointed General Manager employed to lead the expansion seeks to make the key strategic hire of a Quality Manager.

Reporting directly to the GM, you will be the first Pan European quality lead in this space and will be tasked with establishing standardized processes and procedures across currently six plants.

As with all clean room environments total integrity is required to ensure that no contamination occurs.

You will operate in a matrix environment so you will need excellent communication and relationship building skills.

Multi lingual skills are also necessary as your role will cover sites in Belgium, Holland, France and Germany.

This well established FTSE listed business is committed to people development so an interesting career opportunity will await the appointed individual.