Site Director West London - West London

West London
London

If you think you can take a 35M B-Corp armed with a very significant brand and a strong manufacturing site team from ‘good’ to ‘holy crap’, this might be for you.

If you’ve already got all the answers; if you consider yourself ‘a great leader’ already; if, when things don’t go right, you’re not ready to step forward and take ownership – then it probably isn’t.

The Role 

You’re taking a good thing and making it better.
You’ll have a profitable site.
A fantastic brand.
A flat structure above you.
A great manufacturing site.
Very little bureaucracy* and a genuinely brilliant reputation as a place to work.

The vision is for the site to become somewhere that customers, staff and stakeholders – come in and are a little bit taken aback about how good this place is.

What it isn’t

A site in crisis.
Finished.

Must haves

High quality food manufacturing experience, running a smaller site or a part of a larger site.

Rapid progression in your career to date.

A curiosity as to how any given action will impact the wider business and stakeholders, not just the task at hand.

Why it’s worth 120k+ 

There could not be a more significant and impactful time to join a business. Bar none. You’ll make big calls. You’ll make them quickly. You’ll follow through. You’ll end up with a site which you’ve built, a project you’ve owned, and you’ll be rewarded for that.

Can’t haves

If something goes wrong and you blame other people, instead of saying ‘sorry’ and putting together a fix.

The business values people who can think expansively, both horizontally (how does this impact the wider business?) and vertically (where can we take this, if we really go for it?).

So, take the opposite of that.

Only looking at what is six inches in front of your face, or only doing damage control, never stopping to dream or create.

That’s kind of a can’t have.

What to do? 

Well, if it isn’t for you – either go back to work / family / whatever else it is you’re not doing now, OR, forward this to someone who you think is brilliant at their job.

If it IS for you? 

Send me a copy of your CV, clicking the button or emailing me. If you email, let me know where you saw the job (so we can figure out where we get the most ROI for our ad spend). Also, put together a three line intro as to why you think you’re right. Not a full cover letter. Not something written by AI. Doesn’t need to be pretty.

Final thing 

If you’re at a higher salary bracket but you love the sound of it, let me know and I’ll see if there’s something we can do.

If you don’t hear anything, it’s a no.

We physically can’t get back to all applicants for this type of job without forgoing the rest of our business, I’m genuinely sorry.

*Once I spoke to an interim who was at a blue-chip manufacturer WHO WILL NOT BE NAMED (unless you ring me up and we speak and in that case maybe?), who was asking for a metal table with a hole in it so that they could decant spices from sacks without them going all over the floor. This had to fit into the TPM plan which had to be signed off by about five directors, a VP and some kind of steering committee. It solved a clear and genuine problem. The interim was there for six months and by the time she had left the table purchase had still not been signed off.

Now flip that. There is governance here but if you have a good idea, it can be talked through and if it makes sense, signed off really very quickly. That was my point with the long rambling story.