Managing Director
High-Growth SME | East Midlands (On-Site)
The Opportunity
We are exclusively retained to appoint a Managing Director on behalf of a high-performing, privately-owned UK business.
This is a pivotal, board-level appointment offering full responsibility for the day-to-day leadership, performance, and scalability of a fast-growing organisation with revenues in excess of £80m.
The business has experienced significant growth in recent years and now requires a proven leader to:
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership
Candidate Profile
We are seeking a proven Managing Director or CEO with a track record of delivering results within a growing SME environment.
Essential Experience
Package
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High-Growth SME | East Midlands (On-Site)
The Opportunity
We are exclusively retained to appoint a Managing Director on behalf of a high-performing, privately-owned UK business.
This is a pivotal, board-level appointment offering full responsibility for the day-to-day leadership, performance, and scalability of a fast-growing organisation with revenues in excess of £80m.
The business has experienced significant growth in recent years and now requires a proven leader to:
- Strengthen operational infrastructure
- Embed scalable processes and systems
- Drive profitability and performance
- Lead the next phase of its development
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership
- Oversee and optimise the performance of all core business functions
- Ensure operational efficiency, service delivery, and cost control is evidenced
- Lead a multi-site, operationally complex business
- Full accountability for financial performance and P&L delivery
- Implement robust KPI frameworks and reporting structures
- Identify risks and drive proactive solutions
- Execute the CEO’s strategic growth plans
- Support continued expansion, including potential acquisitions
- Ensure operational readiness for further scale
- Lead and develop an established senior leadership team
- Drive accountability, alignment, and performance standards
- Build capability and succession across the organisation
- Maintain a culture centred on ownership, trust, and delivery
Candidate Profile
We are seeking a proven Managing Director or CEO with a track record of delivering results within a growing SME environment.
Essential Experience
- Demonstrable success operating at MD / CEO level
- Experience within £80m+ turnover businesses within the SME business sector
- Background in:
- B2B distribution, logistics, FMCG, or product-led sectors
- Strong track record of:
- Driving growth
- Improving operational performance
- Scaling businesses
- Hands-on and operationally credible
- Commercially astute and results-focused
- Decisive, with the ability to operate at pace
- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with execution
- Values-driven with a low ego, high accountability mindset
- Strong communicator who builds trust quickly
- Resilient, grounded, and adaptable
- Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Entrepreneurial and growth-focused
- Strong leadership team already in place
- Business at a stage of transition from rapid growth to operational maturity
- Opportunity to make a visible and lasting impact
Package
- c£200,000 salary + car allowance, bonus and LTIPs
- True Managing Director role with real accountability
- Opportunity to lead a high-growth, scaling business
- Work directly with a dynamic and ambitious CEO
- Shape systems, processes, and long-term strategy
- Play a key role in the next stage of the organisation’s evolution
Cherry Professional are recruiting for this opportunity on behalf of our client. Please view our Privacy Policy on our website to understand how your data will be used if you apply for this role.