General Manager – Critical Infrastructure

About The OrganisationOur 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

• Lead the transition to a fully standalone operating model building the commercial infrastructure, internal capability and governance required to operate with independence and accountability Drive commercial growth by expanding the customer base, deepening strategic partnerships and increasing utilisation of a high quality, capacity-rich asset base 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?
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