CEO of Lucy Controls - Oxford, United Kingdom - Lucy Group

Lucy Group

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Oxford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Internal Job Title
:
CEO of Lucy Controls

Business
:
Lucy Group

Location
:
Oxford
Job Reference Number
:3286

Role Overview & Purpose
A pivotal role with a clear mandate to drive significant growth across Lucy Controls businesses.

Lucy Group is focused on growing its Lucy Controls businesses (comprising Lucy Zodion, Lawson Fuses and Flashnet) both in the UK and internationally.

The CEO of Lucy Controls is required to enable and drive these businesses to deliver the significant global growth forecast in electrical and digital infrastructure.

You will be front and centre for Controls strategy, driving overall performance, enabling the right culture, generating enthusiasm and relentless determination across the businesses.

Your objective is to position the overall vision and strategy to enable the Controls businesses to meet the demands for growth.

You will inspire employees and act as a role model for the sorts of behaviours required to embed change, striking the right balance between shortterm improvement and long-term value.

The role should deliver the overall development of the Controls businesses to achieve combined annual revenues of over £60m by the end of the 5-year medium term plan.

To achieve this, the Managing Director will need to:

Position the overall strategic direction of the Lucy Controls businesses and organisation;
Drive the development of the businesses to achieve their strategic plans, having regard to growth opportunities, greater business intelligence, increased productivity and achieving target revenues;
Improve overall performance to deliver objectives, increase efficiencies and achieve sustainable profitability in all the businesses;
Identify and exploit industry trends, market intelligence and customer relationship development to achieve growth opportunities;
Ensure the businesses are structured, resourced and governed to deliver and exceed their business plans and priorities.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated leader with significant senior leadership capability, focused on meeting strategic targets. As a new role, this will require a seasoned people manager with significant prior experience of business growth and transformation.

Role Context
Lucy Controls is a key area of Lucy Group's future growth strategy. Lucy Group is a highly successful, diversified international Group with a strategy for delivering long-term sustainable growth.

Within Lucy Group, Lucy Controls comprises the following:
All of the businesses have domestic and international sales.

Role Dimensions
The role will report directly to an Executive Director of Lucy Group. The role will also work with and report regularly to the Group's Board and Executive Directors.

The role will have the following direct reports:

Managing Director, Lucy Zodion
CEO, Flashnet
General Manager, Lawson Fuses

In addition, the Group will consider appropriate additional direct reports once the role is in position including finance, marketing and business analytics.

The role will work closely with the senior leadership teams of Lucy Zodion, Flashnet and Lawson Fuses to drive the implementation of their activities in accordance with the strategic goals.

The role will also work closely with the Group's service lines to review and enhance the businesses' performance, governance and approach within the Group's overall governance and strategy.

The role will also need to work with the leadership team of Lucy Electric to align strategy and operations as required and ensure dissemination of opportunities and learnings across the Group.

Key Accountabilities of the Role

Analyse and evolve the strategy for Lucy Controls within Lucy Group's overall strategy
Working with the individual business' leadership teams and Group's Executive Directors to enhance and deliver the businesses' strategies (within the context of the Group's overall strategy). This will involve fully identifying and articulating the priorities and opportunities to maximise the businesses' strategic success.

This will include:

Reviewing and critiquing the businesses' strategic market forecasts and recognizing key market trends to inform and evolve strategies;
With Group guidance, setting the context for and then reviewing the mediumterm plans and annual business plans/budgets for each of the businesses.
Working with the businesses' leadership teams and Group service lines to ensure the businesses are structured and resourced to deliver and exceed their strategic plans.
Setting and reviewing business priorities building on the businesses' strategic aims and the identified Group priorities, reviewing and agreeing the annual priorities for each of the businesses. In line with the Group's performance excellence programme, to ensure these business priorities are cascaded down through the businesses to clear and measurable personal obje