Job Description
Managing Director – Small Manufacturing & Automotive Aftermarket Business \n About the Business \n We are a small, specialist manufacturing business supplying safety-related products into the automotive aftermarket. We operate with a compact team, a hands-on workshop environment, and close relationships with our customers. \n This is a real SME business - practical, fast-moving, and built on people doing things properly rather than layers of process.
\n We are looking for a hands-on Managing Director to take day-to-day responsibility for running and growing the business. \n This role suits someone who enjoys being close to the detail, improving how things work, and steadily building a business rather than maintaining the status quo. There will be an initial handover period working alongside the current interim Managing Director to ensure continuity and a smooth transition before full responsibility transfers.
\n Running the business day to day \n Improving operational efficiency across production, stock and delivery \n Making sound commercial decisions within tight budgets \n Using financial information and simple reporting to guide actions \n Using systems and dashboards to understand performance \n Being curious about automation and AI tools that can help reduce admin and improve: \n This role suits someone who enjoys making a business run better through smarter ways of working. \n This is a ...