Consortium Professional Recruitment
Operations Director
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Operations Director
Managing Director Designate
East Yorkshire | Circa £120,000 - £130,000 + Performance Bonus + Executive Benefits
The Harland Partnership and Consortium Professional Recruitment have been exclusively retained to identify an exceptional Operations Director to join a highly successful engineering and manufacturing business as part of its long-term leadership succession strategy.
This appointment has been created as part of a carefully considered long-term leadership succession strategy, with the successful Operations Director expected to develop into the Managing Director role through a planned transition.
Initially assuming responsibility for Engineering, Manufacturing and Purchasing, the successful individual will work alongside an experienced executive leadership team, progressively broadening their contribution across commercial performance, organisational strategy and business leadership.
With revenues approaching £80 million, approximately 500 employees and ambitious growth plans that will see the business exceed £100 million turnover and beyond, this is an opportunity to influence not only operational performance, but the future direction of the organisation itself.
The Appointment
Reporting into the senior leadership team, the Operations Director will provide strategic leadership across a complex, engineering-led manufacturing environment where customer responsiveness, engineering excellence and operational performance are fundamental to continued success. Beyond the day-to-day leadership of Engineering, Manufacturing and Purchasing, this appointment will play a key role in shaping the future capability of the business through operational improvement, organisational development, strategic planning and leadership succession.
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The successful individual will work closely with colleagues across Finance, Commercial and Group leadership, developing a broad understanding of the business whilst preparing for a future transition into the Managing Director role. This is not a turnaround appointment.
The business has strong foundations, an experienced leadership team and clear ambitions for sustainable growth. The opportunity is to build upon that success whilst helping shape the next phase of the organisation's evolution.
About You
We are seeking an experienced Operations Director, Manufacturing Director, or General Manager with a successful track record within complex engineering or manufacturing environments.
You will demonstrate:
- Significant experience leading engineering and manufacturing operations.
- Strong commercial awareness and strategic judgement.
- The ability to influence across multiple business functions.
- Experience developing high-performing operational teams.
- A collaborative, pragmatic and highly visible leadership style.
- The ambition and capability to progress beyond functional leadership into broader executive responsibility.
Experience gained within specialist manufacturing, engineered products, capital equipment, defence, aerospace, rail, automotive or similarly complex manufacturing environments will be highly advantageous.
Most importantly, you will possess the leadership capability, commercial perspective and personal ambition to develop into the future Managing Director of a successful manufacturing business.
Why Join?
This is a business with an established market position, an outstanding reputation and clear long-term ambitions.
Supported by international ownership whilst retaining significant local autonomy, the organisation combines the agility of an entrepreneurial manufacturing business with the investment and stability of a larger group. The successful Operations Director will join at an important point in the company's evolution, with the opportunity to influence future operational strategy, leadership capability and long-term business performance whilst preparing to assume overall leadership of the organisation.
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Appointments offering this combination of operational leadership, strategic influence and planned succession are exceptionally uncommon.
Package
- Circa £120,000 - 130,000 Base Salary
- Performance Related Bonus
- Executive Benefits Package
- Private Healthcare
- Pension
Confidential Executive Search
This appointment is being managed exclusively by The Harland Partnership, Executive Search, in partnership with Consortium Professional Recruitment, on a retained and confidential basis. All applications and enquiries will be handled with complete discretion. Further information regarding the business will be shared with suitably qualified individuals following an initial confidential discussion.
Consortium Professional Recruitment Ltd are a professional level recruitment consultancy specialising in the delivery of high relevance recruitment services on behalf of our clients across the UK. We regularly receive large responses to our advertising which can make providing individual feedback to every applicant challenging. If you haven’t received a reply from us within 14 days of your application, we regret to say your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. We have a policy of retaining your details for future vacancies unless you request otherwise. To learn more about our services, please visit consortiumrecruitment.co.uk
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