General Manager

The Company

The Vernon Fox group is a rapidly growing services and support organisation, encompassing a variety of businesses including warehousing and logistics, storage, goods procurement and retail, physical and online auction sales, direct sales, bricks & mortar retail and other specialist services for third-party clients.

Our aim is to create a best in class operation placing innovation at the heart of what we do, finding and developing synergies between our activities and discovering ways to reduce wastage in processes and products. We constantly seek to offer exceptional service to our clients and customers.

The Role

We are looking for a General Manager to oversee all staff and operations at our Bristol location. This location is the hub of our storage operations, a site from which we service one of our major clients, and one of our key auction sales locations.

As General Manager your responsibilities will include managing people and premises, developing and maintaining policies and strategy, and establishing new client and customer relationships and building new opportunities.

To be successful in this role, you should be a thoughtful leader and a confident decision-maker, helping our people develop and be productive, while ensuring our operation is protected, clients and customers receive a high level of service, and operational costs are kept under control.

Ultimately, you’ll help our company grow and thrive as a key member of our management team, working on innovative solutions to develop greater cohesion between our sites and activities, and also to achieve our wider goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations
• Maintain and develop relationships with our key clients, suppliers and customers
• Manage and refine existing policies and processes and define new ones
• Ensure employees work productively and develop professionally
• Evaluate and improve operations and performance, including financial performance
• Prepare regular reports for senior management
• Explore and develop new relationships and establish business with new clients
• Provide solutions to issues (eg. storage problems, employee conflicts, loss of business to competitors)
• Ensure staff adhere to health and safety regulations

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as a General Manager or similar executive role
• Previous experience of developing staff and client relationships
• Strong analytical ability
• Excellent communication skills
• Outstanding organizational and leadership skills
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Knowledge of business process and functions (warehousing, operations, procurement, finance, HR, customer service etc.)
• Experience in planning and budgeting

Further Details

Interviews to be held in Bristol in week commencing 20th February, with immediate start available.

The successful applicant will be expected to pass a DBS (CRB) check.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bristol: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 14/02/2023
Expected start date: 01/03/2023