General Manager (Automotive)

Location: Swindon, England, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global is a B2B information and technology group with over 4,000 employees across 26 countries, providing data, software, and digital solutions to professional communities, including the automotive aftermarket.

What you will do

• Own UK revenue, profit, cash discipline, budgeting, forecasting, planning, and overall business performance.
• Set and execute the UK strategy, translating priorities into investment choices, measurable outcomes, and a rigorous operating cadence.
• Drive sustainable growth through acquisition, retention, renewals, cross-sell, upsell, strategic accounts, partnerships, and complex negotiations.
• Lead the UK senior leadership team, develop organisational capability, and build a high-performance, accountable culture.
• Improve operational efficiency, governance, productivity, margin, risk management, compliance, and execution quality.
• Connect UK priorities with international product, technology, marketing, finance, HR, and operational teams while coordinating portfolio and multi-country opportunities.

Requirements

• Proven success as a General Manager, Managing Director, Business Unit Director, or in a comparable senior leadership role with full P&L accountability.
• Strong track record of profitable revenue growth in B2B software, SaaS, data, information services, automotive, or a closely related sector.
• Experience leading multifunctional teams and senior leaders, including accountability, capability, engagement, and succession development.
• Commercial leadership experience covering coordinated go-to-market strategy, recurring-revenue growth, strategic accounts, and complex negotiations.
• Strong financial and business-management capability across budgeting, forecasting, investment choices, margin, and performance improvement.
• Experience leading business change, transformation, or scaling while maintaining delivery and customer confidence.
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining visible, hands-on, and close to customers, people, and execution priorities.
• Executive-level communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills within a matrix or international organisation.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of the automotive aftermarket, workshop technology, technical data, parts, diagnostics, fleets, dealer systems, or related digital solutions.
• Experience leading a subscription, software, or data business serving enterprise, network, and independent customers.
• Exposure to product-led growth, portfolio integration, cross-border account development, or multi-brand go-to-market models.
• Experience strengthening operating discipline and culture in a business with significant growth ambitions.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, customer-focused, collaborative, inclusive, and impact-oriented culture.
• 25 days of annual leave, increasing to 30, plus the employee’s birthday off and a holiday buying scheme.
• Group personal pension plan, retirement planning advice, life assurance, health cash plan, and enhanced family-friendly leave.
• Employee assistance programme with counselling, wellbeing resources, menopause support, and employee recognition.
• Mortgage advice, season ticket loan, retail and gym discounts, eyecare vouchers, cycle-to-work scheme, and referral scheme.

Hiring process

• Applicants are asked to complete equal-opportunities questions as part of the application; participation is optional and the information is collected anonymously for monitoring.