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Branch Manager – Ware If you’re a decisive, commercially minded leader who enjoys responsibility, autonomy, and a hands-on, client-facing role, this is a standout opportunity to run and grow a well-established branch. We are recruiting on behalf of our client, an established industrial engineering business with a long-standing reputation, for an experienced Branch Manager to take full ownership of their Hertfordshire operations, in Ware. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role where you’ll run the branch as your own business—driving performance, developing people, and ensuring contracts are delivered safely, profitably, and to the highest standard. The Role You’ll have overall accountability for branch performance, reporting directly to the Operations Director and working closely with them on strategy, operations, and growth. Your remit will span finance, operations, sales, people management, and future expansion. This is a hands-on role—no two days are the same. The right candidate will also be client-facing, promoting the business, building relationships, and driving sales while managing the branch team. Key Responsibilities • Full responsibility for branch operations, performance reporting, and future planning, • Ownership of monthly and annual P&L, ensuring margins are maintained, • Oversight of factory and field operations, ensuring labour and resources are correctly allocated, • Working closely with sales and project teams to deliver contracts efficiently and profitably, • Managing internal and external sales activity to secure the right contracts at the right price, • Ensuring appropriate plant, transport, and investment are in place, • Leading on health & safety, quality, and environmental standards, • Full HR responsibility including recruitment, training, development, and performance management, • Identifying and driving opportunities for growth and expansionWhat We’re Looking For, • Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Branch Manager, • Experience within engineering, steel, or industrial doors, • Strong people leadership skills with a proven ability to build, motivate, and manage teams, • Hands-on approach with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, varied role, • Client-facing skills with the confidence to promote the business and drive sales, • Commercially astute with solid financial and operational understanding, • Target-driven, eager, and motivated to grow the branch and the business, • Confident communicator, able to work effectively at all levels, • Strong customer relationship skills, • Full UK driving licenceWhat’s on Offer, • £65,000–£75,000 per annum, • Company car or car allowance, • Company pension, • Up to 25 days holiday per year, • Full support and backing from an experienced Operations Director

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future . We're driving one of the most exciting and ambitious transformations programmes to help us achieve our 2030 vision that Centrica will be a company with world-class talent delivering exceptional service, products and solutions to all our customers. To help lead this change, we're recruiting for a talented and experienced Group Transformation Management Office Director . Location: UK, Flexible As Director of TMO, you will: • Lead the Group Transformation Management Office, setting the standards, governance, and rhythm that underpin Centrica's transformation portfolio., • Provide strategic oversight of transformation initiatives across Group Functions and Business Units, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and value creation., • Shape and run senior governance forums, including enterprise-level transformation boards, enabling informed, timely decision-making., • Own the portfolio view of delivery, risk, and benefits, providing a single source of truth to senior leaders., • Lead enterprise-wide transformation reporting and benefits tracking, ensuring that value is realised, not just planned., • Act as a senior point of assurance and challenge for major programmes, intervening where delivery is off track., • Build and lead a high-performing TMO team, developing capability and embedding leading practice across the organisation. This is a senior role requiring credible enterprise-scale experience. Successful candidates will bring: • Extensive experience leading portfolio, programme, or transformation management offices in large, complex or regulated organisations., • A strong track record of overseeing large-scale transformation portfolios (typically £50m+ investment), delivering measurable financial, operational, and customer outcomes., • Experience operating confidently at Executive and Board level, providing assurance, insight, and challenge., • Deep understanding of governance, investment control, benefits realisation, and delivery assurance., • The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution in ambiguous, high-pressure environments., • Strong people leadership capability, with experience building and leading senior teams., • Exceptional communication and influencing skills, able to align diverse stakeholders behind common goals. Please apply with your CV and a short supporting statement outlining your relevant experience and motivation for the role.