Area Manager - South

Description

• Participate in emergency cover rotation. Requires being on call for a week at a time including over a weekend or bank holiday every few months.
• Manage and take responsibility for area branches, including other departments, working in conjunction with the Senior Management team to devise and implement strategy and tactics to manage the branches, maximise sales and profit opportunities with both new, potential, and existing customers.
• Business development at an operational level. To lead and guide the development of internal structure in support of growth. This may include expansion, recruitment, management of resources and preparation of business plans as required.
• Direct Operational Leads and teams to ensure best practice, efficient and effective delivery safely and to time, cost and quality. Effectively coordinating and report on the activities of each branch team to maximise the efficiency of the branches, ensuring operational standards, key performance indicators and budgets are established, met and achieved.
• To manage Operations and Business Development giving a full 360 relationship between Sales and Operations.
• Oversee effective Project Management in each branch focusing on: Quoting, planning and delivering projects to time, cost and quality utilising the company wide resources to best effect to satisfy the customer and company business needs.
• Writing reports and analysing relevant business data, including spend trends, to enable effective forward planning. Must satisfy the KPI requirements of the contract or framework.
• Be responsible for the compliance of all legal and Health and Safety requirements across the business to ensure a safe working environment. In conjunction with the SHEQ Manager ensure that all Company policies and procedures for ISO9001, ISO14001 are implemented.
• Encourage and develop relationships with all stakeholder groups.
• Overall area leadership of strategic objectives and develop the profit centers to make the maximum contributions to financial success.
• Responsible for various sites, their assets and safe systems of work.
• Promote business wide objectives and support business development.
• Responsible for all elements of P&L for the area branches, including all financial and operational reporting. Monitor job costings and implement financial controls where needed. Understanding the reasons for profits and losses.
• To act as the Senior Key Account Manager and point of contact with clients, providing an escalation point for all major contracts for the relevant area.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years industry experience at a senior level.
• Current valid driving licence.
• Project management trained with experience in project management, planning, and coordination, including the use of current PM tools e.g. Microsoft Office/Project, GANNT charts etc.
• Previous experience of water/engineering equipment and water industry/environmental experience desired.
• Commercially astute with excellent business acumen.
• A broad knowledge of the wastewater industry is important along with the ability to guide the business in technological developments.
• Excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills and customer service skills.
• Confined spaces to City and Guilds - preferred.
• Excellent MS Office computer skills.
• DSE Eye Tests
• Experience and knowledge of managing NEC 3 Contracts.
• A proven people manager with several years of experience delivering time critical projects.
• Ability to prioritise own workload and other direct reports work in a systematic and organised manner to complete work within set deadlines.
• SMSTS – Site safety management desirable.
• Engineering qualified to Degree/HND or equivalent or qualified by experience.
• IOSH safety qualification as a minimum. Knowledge of Health & Safety issues in connection with the construction industry.
• Senior level sales experience in the wastewater industry in a Key Account Manager role or similar, where the customer experience is front and center of the business’s outputs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive secondary benefits
• This is a dynamic, ever evolving role that will require regular working outside of core hours to suit the business needs.
• Significant contribution to your pension plan
• Regular traveling which will require overnight stays at potentially short notice to cover evolving business needs.
• Minimum of 23 days holiday per annum + Bank Holidays
• Mental Health First Aiders & Support programmes
• Competitive Salaries
• Highly competitive salary package
• Excellent opportunities to develop and progress with a global organization
• Annual Discretionary bonus
• Flu Vaccines
• 2 x Annual salary Life Cover

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance