General Manager — Multi-Company Platform

Location: Ireland | Sector: Technical & Safety-Critical Systems

The Opportunity

A well-established, acquisitive European group is seeking a General Manager to lead one of its Irish platforms — a multi-company business with significant scale and ambitious growth plans.

This is a senior leadership role with full commercial accountability: leading a group of experienced Managing Directors as one team, owning the multi-company P&L, and driving the platform to its next stage of growth.

The Role

Reporting to the Chief Operations Officer, you will:

• Lead several established trading companies as a single, high-performing platform
• Own commercial performance, forecasting, margin discipline and capital allocation
• Drive adoption of a single digital operating platform across every business
• Standardise processes, pricing discipline and service delivery
• Lead the sales strategy, with a particular focus on growing recurring revenue
• Identify, evaluate and integrate acquisition opportunities
• Champion a best-in-class safety, quality and workplace culture

About You

This is not a role for someone who manages from a spreadsheet. You earn followership from experienced operators rather than asserting it. You read situations and people quickly, run the business on a small set of clear numbers, and set a higher bar for yourself than for anyone else.

You will bring:

• 5+ years in a regulated, safety-critical or technical systems sector
• 5+ years leading a multi-site or group structure at GM or equivalent level
• Demonstrable P&L ownership at scale
• Strong technical aptitude and command of regulation and standards
• A track record of building and holding to account a senior leadership team
• M&A integration and major-account management experience
• Excellent communication skills — written, with clients, and in front of a workforce

A degree in business or engineering, a lean/operational excellence background, and experience driving a digital operating platform across multiple businesses would all be advantageous.

Why This Role

You will join a group whose standard is simple: to be the best — the best workplace, the best processes, the best people. Excellence attracts excellence, and this role carries that standard for an entire platform.

Interested? Apply in confidence or get in touch for a confidential conversation.