Interim Commercial Director (part time role) – London based TOC
Background Veredus provide interim executive talent across the transport and infrastructure sector, including many of the UK train operating companies, Network Rail, DFT and the Rail Delivery Group. We recruit exceptional individuals across all functions, including HR, Finance, Operations, Engineering, Health and Safety, Procurement, Projects and Programme Management. The client Our client is a UK train operating company that is part of one of the largest providers of passenger transport in Europe with 60,000 employees delivering more than 2.2 billion passenger journeys every year. The brief Interim Commercial Director (part time role). The role required an experienced Commercial director with significant rail experience who was used to working at director level across commercial and customer experience. It was also a requirement that the candidate was happy to work on a part time 2/3 days a week basis as a job share. Interim operations Director (fixed term contract) the role required someone who had been an Operations Director in the past and was immediately available and with the added complication of being satisfied with a fixed term contract rather than either a day rate interim or permanent post. Interim Financial Controller – the requirement was immediate and again required experience of the rail sector and the confident and ability to manage and build a team. Our solution: In all instances we leaned heavily on our rail market expertise speaking and meeting with a wide range of established contacts and building new networks across the sector. In addition, we reached out (confidentially) on social media to draw attention to the roles. All three posts were successfully filled with the Commercial Director ultimately joining full time, the operations director being extended twice and the financial Controller delivering as required before a permanent hire was made.
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