Managing Director

The Managing Director will provide strong operational leadership and commercial oversight across the business. The role is responsible for ensuring effective management, sustainable growth, and full alignment with the Group’s strategic objectives, while maintaining strong local execution and a visible market presence.

The company operates within a highly decentralized model, fostering autonomy, accountability, and long-term thinking.

• The Managing Director will unify the organization, modernize processes and strengthen the commercial structure. Acting as a business owner, will drive improvements in commercial performance, organizational efficiency, and leadership effectiveness.
• Lead the sales, customer service, and procurement teams.
• Manage clients from different channels, including the DIY channel, and suppliers from Europe, China, the Far East, Saudi Arabia, among others.
• Set commercial strategy, sales targets, and customer service standards following group criteria.
• Optimize local processes, ensuring efficiency and high performance.
• Align objectives and reporting with group leadership at headquarters.
• Support the integration and harmonization of operational practices across the entities.
• Lead, motivate, and develop local employees in commercial and customer service functions.
• Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and customer-focused culture.
• Support succession planning and talent development locally.
• Maintain and strengthen relationships with key clients, suppliers, and partners.
• Drive growth in sales and customer satisfaction.
• Represent the company in the Spanish market, industry forums, and trade events.

• The ideal candidate would be a hands-on.
• Entrepreneurial General Manager with a strong commercial, sales-driven mindset.
• Capable of leading from the front in a relatively small, operationally intensive environment.
• Excellent people leadership and team management skillsA strategic thinker with the ability to execute operational plans effectively
• Ability to work closely with centralized corporate functions

• Proven senior leadership experience (+10 years) managing mid-sized companies or sales departments. 
• Experience leading commercial and customer-facing teams, with full P&L responsibility
• Previous experience in medium-sized companies, with the ability to make decisions independently, build teams, and execute change pragmatically
• Proven ability to drive growth, improve margins, optimize logistics and procurement, and increase productivity in a B2B environment

Preferably Sales & Leadership education. Engineering background is also interesting.