Territory

Scotland (needs to live within a commutable distance to Glasgow with a willingness to travel across the UK)

My client is a high-growth legionella compliance business. With a turnover of £50 million today they aspire to achieve £75 million in revenue within the next two years by acquisition and organic growth. They are truly in an exciting phase and will undoubtedly become the biggest water hygiene business in the UK & Ireland within that timeframe.

As a result of their ambitions and recent acquisitions made, they have created a brand-new position for a Regional Director for Scotland and at the same time to be responsible for the UK Healthcare Legionella Compliance/water hygiene business. This is a dual leadership role with operational and commercial responsibility for leading both the Scottish existing compliance and monitoring business regionally for the legionella testing to private and public sector clients and nationally to drive new sales and profit for the UK Healthcare vertical market segment.

Reporting into the UK Operational Managing Director, the Regional Director will have total autonomy and P&L responsibility for a 40-strong team delivering legionella testing and compliance services to local government, social housing, and local authorities across Scotland and to grow the UK-wide NHS Trusts and Healthcare accounts to increase operating profit, revenue and market share in both business areas.

As the Regional Director you will be living in a commutable distance to Glasgow and work from the office Monday to Friday to conduct weekly tea performance review meetings with the regions management team whereby financial data, sales activity and operations performance is analysed and opportunities for improvement/growth identified. You will also work with the Healthcare Account Manager to provide technical support and general commercial guidance to the Account Manager to prepare winning quotations for works of high complexity. The incoming Regional Director will be highly commercially astute, having held P&L responsibility for c£8-10 million + service business and will be able to present moth end financial data and regional performance in comparison to financial targets for revenue and EBITDA to the Board & investors on a monthly/quarterly basis.

The ideal candidate will have previously been or is currently a Regional Director, Divisional Director, General Manager or Business Unit Manager or equivalent for a competitive Legionella Testing/Water Hygiene Service provider, facilities management company OR has been a Compliance Director in Healthcare Water Hygiene. You must have held full P&L responsibility and leadership of a business for a minimum of 5 years with a demonstrable record of revenue and operating profit growth over a sustained period of time. My client is looking for an expert on Healthcare Water Hygiene Testing/Services, someone who has run a high growth Healthcare business unit for an outsourced FM delivery services company with a sound understanding of Healthcare Technical Monitoring M(HTMs) memorandums will be ideal. There is significant opportunity to grow and expand these services out, so someone who can demonstrate clear success in operational efficiencies, adding new revenue streams to create solid business growth strategies to achieve and exceed financial targets would be very favourable. Full clean driving licence, willingness to travel to win new business across the UK as and when required is essential.

Apply today by emailing your up to date word CV to Emma Howarth – MD Langton Howarth Ltd emma@langtonhowarth.com or call Emma right now in confidence to apply for the role 0113 243 3499.

Salary £60,000 – £70,000 base (DOE) + 16% bonus + co car or car allowance + 6% match pension contribution + family healthcare + DIS x3 2xCIC