Managing Director

Managing Director

Blakemore Wholesale, Cash & Carry,

Wolverhampton

Excellent package 

Role description

Blakemore Wholesale is looking for a Managing Director to run its Cash & Carry Division. The Managing Director will be responsible for growing both sales and profit through the leadership team.

You will be accountable for the following:
• Development and implementation of strategies to drive sales, profitability and customer loyalty.
• Exploring and developing both new and existing market segments
• To ensure high operational standards to develop cash & carries of excellence, improving the customer experience.
• Management of cross functional and divisional relationships to encourage the development of collaborative working to drive efficiencies and improve group performance
• Ensure class leading technology is utilised to its maximum competitive advantage.
• To drive staff engagement within the division though effective leadership
• To further develop the retail stores group to drive loyalty and profitable sales
• CAPEX requests
• Stockholding levels in accordance with group targets
• Full P&L accountability for the Cash & Carry business

Who we're looking for

The Managing Director will be an exceptional leader. He or she will have the strategic capability to both visualise best practice, then implement across the organisation. We are looking for an established player within the cash & carry market. It is essential that you have board level experience in the cash & carry, retail, food service, or wholesale industry.

You will be able to demonstrate the following core competencies:
• Achiever who has real drive to deliver results
• Has the ability to understand the commercial issues that face AF Blakemore's entrepreneurial customer base
• High levels of commercial acumen and highly numerate
• Exceptional communications skills
• Highly organised and analytical
• A realist with a pragmatic attitude and feet firmly on the ground.
• A creative thinker who can come up with innovative strategies and solutions

About AF Blakemore

AF Blakemore is one of the biggest and most successful family owned enterprises in the UK. The company is divided into 8 Divisions, each of which has its own Board of Directors.

The Blakemore Wholesale Division operates 14 cash and carry sites across the UK. Blakemore Wholesale is the largest member of the Landmark Group and currently 3rd in size in the cash and carry market in the UK.

The business is keen to maintain its strong ethical heritage that comes from being a family owned organisation. As such the business is run along the principles of 'the Blakemore Way' to ensure the behaviour of the business both internally and externally is consistent between staff, suppliers, customers and the family.


Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

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