the client is seeking a general manager with full P&L accountability to lead transformative growth in a fast-growing food business. While functional execution is driven by directors, the general manager maintains overall responsibility for business results, ensuring alignment across functions and accountability to agreed objectives. The role requires strong financial acumen and performance management, with a clear focus on driving profitable growth while safeguarding margins, cash flow, and capital efficiency across international markets.
key responsibilities include achieving annual revenue, gross margin, and EBITDA targets, improving operating margin and cash flow year over year, and supporting market share growth and customer satisfaction in priority markets. The role also provides leadership for strategic initiatives within approved financial parameters, including development and execution of a multi-year strategic plan, definition and alignment of enterprise-wide KPIs, and senior oversight of branded and private label sales to ensure commercial strategies support profitability and long-term value. Additional duties include guiding pricing architecture, commercial policies, portfolio strategy, market prioritisation, and capital allocation through disciplined analysis and risk assessment, as well as approving major commercial investments and market entry opportunities based on robust business cases.
the general manager will partner closely with finance to lead annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning, while driving financial discipline through cost control, productivity improvements, and capital efficiency. The role includes overseeing risk management frameworks, ensuring strong internal controls and governance standards, monitoring performance across key financial and return metrics, and providing executive oversight of supply chain, production, and logistics to ensure output meets commercial expectations. The successful applicant will be expected to lead and unify the management team, foster a culture of ownership and data-driven decision making, support senior talent retention and succession planning, and present clear, data-driven updates to executive stakeholders.