{"id":4101711,"url":"https://alion.io/job/geminor-managing-director-geminor-uk","title":"Managing Director, Geminor UK","company":{"id":4430104,"name":"Geminor","domain":"geminor.no","url":"https://alion.io/company/geminor","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"HiBob","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Newcastle under Lyme, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T09:39:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T10:56:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":52,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":52},"description":"About GeminorGeminor is a leading European waste management company, founded in 2004 in Norway and now operating across Europe through a network of treatment hubs and offices in 9 countries. We help waste producers and offtakers maximise the value of their resources through market-driven solutions spanning recycling, energy recovery, processing, transport and logistics. Built on Nordic principles of long-term thinking, transparency and precision, Geminor is a leading trading and resource management company in Europe - delivering sustainable and competitive recycling and recovery services. The UK is one of our most important markets, and our UK team of 22 plays a central role in the Group's continued growth. Our UK office is based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, with a dedicated operational hub in Hull. For more information, please visit https://www.geminor.no/\nAbout the Role\nGeminor is seeking an experienced and commercially driven Managing Director to lead our operations in the UK. The Managing Director is the overall leader of Geminor UK operations, holding full commercial and operational responsibility and ensuring that the national business delivers profitable and sustainable growth, operates with high quality and efficiency, complies with all regulatory requirements, and maintains strong customer and partner relationships. \nThe Managing Director sets the strategy and direction, manages performance, develops the organisation, and ensures that local activities support and strengthen the Group's overall value chain. To succeed in this role, you will balance commercial drive with operational discipline, long-term strategy with daily execution, and local autonomy with Group collaboration.\nYou will manage an experienced team operating at the intersection of market opportunity, customer needs, regulatory requirements, and operational capability - translating these factors into sustainable business outcomes. The role works closely with Sales, Operations, Finance, QHSE, HR, and other Group functions to ensure coordinated planning and execution. Strong financial results and competitive market positions are secured through structured budgeting, KPI follow-up, customer development, operational oversight, and risk management.\nKey Responsibilities\nCountry P&L and Commercial PerformanceTake full ownership of the country P&L and overall financial performance.\nDeliver agreed revenue, margin, profitability, budget, and growth targets.\nEstablish clear performance priorities and ensure consistent follow-up against KPIs and agreed strategies.\nIdentify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity, capacity utilisation, and overall business performance.\nLeadership, Organisation and Capability\nLead, motivate, and develop a high-performing organisation.\nEstablish clear goals, responsibilities, accountabilities, and performance expectations.\nBuild the organisational capability required to support sustainable growth.\nDevelop a strong culture of collaboration, accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and customer focus.\nEnsure the organisation has the right structure, resources, and capacity to meet current and future business needs.\nCommercial Development and Growth\nDevelop and execute the country's commercial strategy in line with Group objectives.\nStrengthen Geminor’s market position and expand the customer and partner base.\nIdentify, develop, and secure new business opportunities.\nBuild and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key customers, suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders.\nTranslate market developments and customer needs into commercially attractive and operationally viable solutions.\nOperational Excellence, Quality and Compliance\nEnsure safe, efficient, reliable, and high-quality operations across the country.\nMaintain full compliance with applicable legislation, permits, regulations, contractual requirements, and Geminor's internal standards.\nWork closely with QHSE and operational teams to maintain strong safety, quality, and environmental performance.\nDrive continuous improvement across processes, systems, cost efficiency, and operational performance.\nEnsure high standards of execution against contract deliverables, drive continuous optimisation of supply chains, and leverage market capacity to maximise efficiency and value.\nGroup Collaboration and Value Creation\nWork closely with Group functions including Sales, Operations, Finance, QHSE, HR, IT, and other specialist teams.\nCollaborate proactively with fellow Managing Directors across Geminor’s other European markets, sharing best practice and aligning on common opportunities and challenges to strengthen the Group’s collective performance.\nEnsure effective alignment between local market requirements and Group strategy, priorities, and capabilities.\nIdentify opportunities to optimise the wider value chain, including margins, capacity utilisation, resources, and cross-country collaboration.\nContribute actively to the development and execution of Group-wide initiatives.\nRisk Management\nIdentify, assess, and proactively manage commercial, financial, regulatory, contractual, and operational risks.\nEnsure robust governance and decision-making across contracts, tenders, investments, and operational activities.\nBalance commercial opportunity with appropriate risk management and long-term value creation.\nWhat We Are Looking For\nWe are looking for an accomplished senior leader who combines strong commercial drive with operational credibility and has the judgement to make sound decisions in a complex and changing environment.You will ideally bring:\nProven senior leadership experience in a Managing Director, Country Manager, General Manager, or comparable role, with responsibility for a country, business unit, or significant P&L.\nA strong track record of delivering profitable, sustainable growth, including budgeting, forecasting, margin management, and KPI-driven performance follow-up.\nExperience leading commercial and operational teams within a regulated, industrial, logistics, or asset-intensive environment, with a solid understanding of QHSE and compliance requirements.\nA relevant Bachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent experience.\nStrong people leadership skills, with experience building and developing high-performing teams and organisations.\nStrong personal drive, with the ability to enable, sustain and motivate high performance across the team over time\nExcellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across a matrixed, international group structure.\nCommercial acumen combined with strong operational discipline and sound, structured decision-making.\nFluent written and spoken English; full UK working rights.\nWillingness to travel within the UK and occasionally within Europe as required.\nExperience within the waste management, logistics, sustainability or circular economy sector is considered a plus. \nWhat We Offer\nA senior leadership role with real ownership, autonomy, and visible impact on the business.\nThe opportunity to lead the UK organisation within a growing, international waste-to-resources group.\nA collaborative Group environment with strong support from sales, operations, finance, QHSE, and HR.\nCompetitive compensation and benefits package.\nThe opportunity to lead within, and help sustain, a culture built on our values - genuine, encourage, momentum, and integrity.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7432,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Waste Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T21:52:23Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":32,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.701,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":51,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/geminor-managing-director-geminor-uk","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/geminor-managing-director-geminor-uk.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T17:06:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34214,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4430104},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4430104"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgeminor-managing-director-geminor-uk"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgeminor-managing-director-geminor-uk"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgeminor-managing-director-geminor-uk"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/geminor-managing-director-geminor-uk\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgeminor-managing-director-geminor-uk"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4101711}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"geminor.no","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4101711},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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