General Manager
Recruiter: Jonathan Lee Recruitment
Location: Cheltenham
Salary: Competitive salary + package
Application date: 14th Apr 2026
Are you ready to take the next step in your career and lead a dynamic, growth-oriented business? This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking company as a General Manager, with a focus on driving sales, business growth and performance to meet the corporate objectives and targets. As an innovative organisation working within a niche market sector, this role offers the chance to make a significant impact while working alongside a high-performing team. If you’re passionate about driving business success and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and solutions provision, this could be the perfect role for you.
As a General Manager you will:
• Lead and develop a highly skilled team within the delivery of engineered products across a range of sectors, fostering performance, accountability, and a collaborative culture.
• Drive and deliver against strategic growth plans to achieve sustainable revenue while increasing in sales and margin improvement.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, engaging proactively with key accounts while expanding services and products to meet customer demands.
• Oversee all operational activities focused on reducing waste, increasing performance and delivering long-term financial stability through effective systems, processes and procedures.
• Manage all profit and loss activities, customer and supplier relations, productivity demands and daily leadership of an SME within a low to medium volume niche engineering environment.
The General Manager will bring:
• Proven leadership experience with a track record of driving business growth and profitability ideally within an SME.
• Strong commercial and business acumen having the ability to create, develop and execute strategic plans.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with customers, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Experience in supplier development and negotiation, particularly within a manufacturing and/or engineering related industry, fostering long-term partnerships.
• A results-driven mindset with the ability to inspire and motivate a team towards achieving common goals.
This role plays a pivotal part in the company’s vision to innovate new products while achieving sustained growth over the next 2 – 3 years by leveraging strong supplier relationships, developing strategic partnerships, and driving operational excellence, with the General Manager key to contributing to the company’s long-term success.