Managing Director, Geminor UK

• Proven senior leadership experience in a Managing Director, Country Manager, General Manager, or comparable role, with responsibility for a country, business unit, or significant P&L.
• A strong track record of delivering profitable, sustainable growth, including budgeting, forecasting, margin management, and KPI-driven performance follow-up.
• Experience leading commercial and operational teams within a regulated, industrial, logistics, or asset-intensive environment, with a solid understanding of QHSE and compliance requirements.
• A relevant Bachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent experience.
• Strong people leadership skills, with experience building and developing high-performing teams and organisations.
• Strong personal drive, with the ability to enable, sustain and motivate high performance across the team over time.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across a matrixed, international group structure.
• Commercial acumen combined with strong operational discipline and sound, structured decision-making.
• Fluent written and spoken English; full UK working rights.
• Willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally within Europe as required.

Experience within the waste management, logistics, sustainability or circular economy sector is considered a plus.

Country P&L and Commercial Performance

• Take full ownership of the country P&L and overall financial performance.
• Deliver agreed revenue, margin, profitability, budget, and growth targets.
• Establish clear performance priorities and ensure consistent follow-up against KPIs and agreed strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity, capacity utilisation, and overall business performance.

Leadership, Organisation and Capability

• Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing organisation.
• Establish clear goals, responsibilities, accountabilities, and performance expectations.
• Build the organisational capability required to support sustainable growth.
• Develop a strong culture of collaboration, accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Ensure the organisation has the right structure, resources, and capacity to meet current and future business needs.

Commercial Development and Growth

• Develop and execute the country's commercial strategy in line with Group objectives.
• Strengthen Geminor’s market position and expand the customer and partner base.
• Identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key customers, suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Translate market developments and customer needs into commercially attractive and operationally viable solutions.

Operational Excellence, Quality and Compliance

• Ensure safe, efficient, reliable, and high-quality operations across the country.
• Maintain full compliance with applicable legislation, permits, regulations, contractual requirements, and Geminor's internal standards.
• Work closely with QHSE and operational teams to maintain strong safety, quality, and environmental performance.
• Drive continuous improvement across processes, systems, cost efficiency, and operational performance.
• Ensure high standards of execution against contract deliverables, drive continuous optimisation of supply chains, and leverage market capacity to maximise efficiency and value.

Group Collaboration and Value Creation

• Work closely with Group functions including Sales, Operations, Finance, QHSE, HR, IT, and other specialist teams.
• Collaborate proactively with fellow Managing Directors across Geminor’s other European markets, sharing best practice and aligning on common opportunities and challenges to strengthen the Group’s collective performance.
• Ensure effective alignment between local market requirements and Group strategy, priorities, and capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to optimise the wider value chain, including margins, capacity utilisation, resources, and cross-country collaboration.
• Contribute actively to the development and execution of Group-wide initiatives.

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and proactively manage commercial, financial, regulatory, contractual, and operational risks.
• Ensure robust governance and decision-making across contracts, tenders, investments, and operational activities.
• Balance commercial opportunity with appropriate risk management and long-term value creation.

Benefits

• A senior leadership role with real ownership, autonomy, and visible impact on the business.
• The opportunity to lead the UK organisation within a growing, international waste-to-resources group.
• A collaborative Group environment with strong support from sales, operations, finance, QHSE, and HR.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• The opportunity to lead within, and help sustain, a culture built on our values — genuine, encourage, momentum, and integrity.