Business Head - UK

Our client, a technology and engineering services company serving the automotive industry, is looking for a senior leader to build and grow its business in the United Kingdom. You will run the local operations on your own. You will answer for revenue, margin, forecast, delivery and customer satisfaction.

You will build and deepen relationships with vehicle makers, tier-one suppliers and automotive technology partners in the UK. You will pursue new work in software-defined vehicles, electrical and electronic architecture, driver assistance, validation, vehicle engineering, cockpit systems, connected vehicles and electrification.

You will lead delivery for UK accounts. This covers escalations, programme health reviews and customer commitments. You will create a UK-focused, customer-facing model backed by large-scale engineering teams abroad. You will also share market insight on UK automotive technology priorities, competitors and sourcing trends.

You will act as a bridge between customer engineering leaders and the company's global delivery centres, sales, finance, legal and HR teams. Success means growing revenue and margin, expanding accounts, converting multi-year programmes, closing escalations and gaining senior access at customers.

We are looking for a leader with 20 or more years in automotive engineering, embedded systems or software-led engineering services. You have owned a P&L and led delivery or regional business. You can speak with technical directors, purchasing and programme leaders. You have turned strategic opportunities into multi-year business.