Managing Director

2 days ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Depot Connect International Full time

Depot Connect International (DCI) is a leading force in the Tank Container Services industry, providing a one-stop solution for essential services to meet the evolving needs of their customers worldwide. With a dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction, DCI is committed to delivering excellence across all its entities.


The UK Managing Director will have P&L responsibility for a multi-location depot network providing: cleaning, haulage, heating, maintenance and repair, testing, handling and storage services.


Specific objectives include:

  • Develop, implement and champion an effective roadmap to ensure DCI is an industry leader in SHEQ
  • Embed a new organisation structure and create a highly effective team enabling the UK to deliver its strategic growth objectives
  • Agree meaningful performance metrics for the business to be able to measure against and track progress
  • Quickly formulate and agree the short, medium and long term improvement strategy both at a macro and micro (depot) level with the leadership team
  • Develop and execute a capital budget enabling the business to modernise and improve against key metrics while ensuring effective payback of investment
  • Optimise the customer journey and create the organisational structure required to deliver this in conjunction with the commercial teams
  • Identify and achieve organic growth with existing and new customers across the sites
  • Collaborate positively with the wider European and Global teams sharing development and best practice opportunities
  • Help identify and integrate acquisition targets into the country structure


This is a transformation role and will require the individual to have existing experience of the tank container or closely related asset sector either as an operator or service provider. The individual will require experience in: developing strategy, delivering results, leading people and managing stakeholders at senior levels. Specifically this means we will be looking for an individual who can demonstrate:

  • Effective leadership of a Safety First culture
  • Successful leadership, particularly focussed on improving operational efficiencies to deliver improved service and margin
  • Strong commercial and people leadership experience, with the ability to understand how to positively impact individual P&L’s
  • Exceptional communication skills, executed through a “down-to-earth” style with energy and impact
  • Natural collaborator who is adept at building strong cross functional team relationships to achieve results
  • Customer centric in approach with a service driven mindset
  • Experience in building effective and aligned teams
  • The ability to understand and agility to provide a highly profitable world class service to a broad portfolio of customers with differing needs


What is on offer

  • A highly competitive base salary
  • Generous company bonus scheme and the opportunity to join a LTIP scheme
  • Company car / Allowance
  • Pension


Any third party CV's will be forwarded directly to The Whitehead Partnership who are working exclusively with Depot Connect International. No fees will be payable to any third party submissions.


Contact Details for The Whitehead Partnership:

email: awhitehead@whitehead-partnership.com



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