Group Managing Director - Innovative high-growth group - South West HQ

Group Managing Director - Innovative high-growth group - South West HQ

17 November, 2025

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Group Managing Director to lead two well-established and growing businesses operating at the forefront of specialist construction fit‑out/installation and manufacturing.

Reporting directly to the Owner/CEO, this role offers a unique opportunity to deliver the strategy, drive growth, and embed innovation across a diverse group.

The Group comprises a specialist manufacturing business producing innovative systems for use in controlled environments, serving high-growth sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceutical, amongst others. Alongside this, the construction division is a specialist installation and fit‑out contractor, delivering complex projects across similar markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategy execution and hold divisional leadership accountable for performance.
• Drive operational efficiency, automation, and digitalisation across the group.
• Ensure strong financial performance with full P&L accountability.
• Develop high-performing teams and succession plans.
• Expand market presence in critical sectors in the UK and overseas.
• Act as a visible ambassador with customers, partners, and stakeholders.

Candidate Profile

• Proven track record of growing businesses and delivering change as MD/Group MD.
• Strong organisational, financial, and commercial acumen. Intellectual capacity to quickly learn what you need to, supporting and challenging the leadership teams of the two businesses and helping them deliver the strategy.
• Experience as MD of a specialist installation and sub‑contracting is particularly useful – understanding the challenges and risks, operational and financial that come with such a business. Experience as MD of an innovative manufacturing business is also useful. We appreciate that we’re unlikely to find many with experience of both!
• Experience across a range of business sizes and ownership structures from SME to PE to large corporate. Experience of turnaround to growth to exit is especially useful.
• Comfortable with accountability, direct communication, and evidence-based decision making.
• Forward‑thinking, with enthusiasm for technology, automation, and innovation.
• Based within reasonable regular daily commuting distance of the South West UK or open to relocation. Living in or near Cardiff, Bath, Gloucester, or Swindon would be ideal.

The Offer

This is a senior leadership role within a well-financed, long‑established, privately owned group. It offers a competitive, significant six‑figure salary, performance‑related bonus, and a long‑term incentive scheme linked to business growth. The role provides the scope to make a significant impact in businesses poised for scale and innovation.