About the Organisation:
Our client is a well-established infrastructure business with a strong market position, long-tenure customer relationships and a high-quality asset base generating consistent, recurring revenue. It serves a blue-chip customer base of leading New Zealand organisations with business-critical requirements and has a clear strategic mandate to grow.
About the Opportunity:
This is a newly created General Manager role with full P&L accountability for a business at a genuine inflection point. The GM will lead the transition to a fully standalone operating model while executing on a compelling growth strategy in a sector with strong structural demand. The business holds a differentiated market position with significant capacity for growth, the opportunity is to build the commercial relationships, organisational capability and operational rigour to capture it. This is a role for a leader who is energised by both the complexity of operating within a larger group and the freedom to build something genuinely compelling.
Key Responsibilities:
Deliver strong financial and operational performance, owning the P&L, ensuring asset reliability and resilience, and building a high-performing team with a clear culture of accountability
What You’ll Bring:
Senior leadership experience in infrastructure, utilities, telecommunications or a related asset intensive sector, with a record of commercial growth and leading organisations through change
Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management capability, comfortable operating within a larger organisational structure while maintaining the commercial edge and pace of an independent operator
A builder’s mindset, you translate strategy into execution, develop high performing teams and are energised by growing something significant from an already strong base
What’s on offer?
A high-profile executive role with genuine P&L accountability and the autonomy to shape strategy and culture of a business with real growth potential
Organisational backing and the resources to support ambitious growth, with the autonomy to lead and build without unnecessary constraint
A sector with strong structural tailwinds and a business with the assets, relationships and market position to capitalise on them, the foundations for a genuinely compelling growth story are already in place
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Brad Gatehouse a call on +64 276 11 3638 and quote Job ID: #18034 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.
At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.
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