Managing Director - Future Fit Group

Future Fit Group are seeking an experienced, commercially minded Managing Director to oversee three of the Groups established businesses: Future Fit Training, Future Fit For Business and Biomechanics Education. As Managing Director, you will lead the companies through their next phase of sustainable growth, taking full responsibility for margin, profitability, operational performance, and long-term organisational health. You'll bring a balanced approach: confident in delivering strong financial outcomes and operational excellence, while also being measured, and people centred in the way you lead change.

This is a pivotal role for a strategic leader who combines sound commercial judgement with the ability to inspire, coach and unite teams behind a shared vision.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Shape, refine, and deliver the organisations long-term strategies, with a strong focus on profitable growth and operational sustainability.
• Use market insight to identify opportunities and manage risk, ensuring each organisation maintains competitiveness and stability.
• Lead change with a steady hand, guiding teams through transformation in a way that is structured, inclusive, and supportive rather than radical or disruptive.

Operational & Commercial Excellence

• Take full accountability for P&L, financial performance, margin optimisation, and budget management.
• Ensure high quality delivery across all services, maintaining compliance, consistency, and an excellent learner experience.
• Drive continuous improvement across teaching, learning, operations and support functions, focusing on efficiency and measurable performance outcomes.
• Oversee B2B and B2C commercial strategies, including sales, marketing, product positioning, and new revenue opportunities.

Stakeholder & Partnership Management

• Build and maintain productive relationships with regulators, funding bodies, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Represent the Group externally with credibility and professionalism, strengthening the organisation's reputation and market standing.

People Leadership & Culture

• Lead with a coaching mindset, developing senior leaders, encouraging accountability, and fostering a high performance culture.
• Create an environment where people feel engaged, supported, and confident in the organisation's direction.
• Ensure strong succession planning and capability development across the leadership team.
• Promote diversity, equity and inclusion as core principles in organisational practice and decision making.

Experience & Attributes

Essential:

• Proven senior leadership experience at Managing Director or equivalent level, ideally within education, training, or workforce development.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with a track record of delivering profitable, margin focused growth.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and complex operations across both B2B and B2C environments.
• Skilled at leading change in a calm, structured and engaging way, and able to bring people on the journey.
• Highly credible communicator with exceptional negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and presentation skills.
• Ability to interpret and utilise performance data to drive decision making.
• Positive, steady leadership style with the confidence to challenge constructively and the humility to listen.
• Willingness to travel nationally, with occasional international travel.

Desirable:

• Advanced qualifications or sector-specific knowledge; familiarity with digital learning trends; experience in government funded programmes; and a background in building strategic partnerships.

Why Join Us?

Future Fit Group is a values-led, ambitious, and fast-growing organisation committed to making every business in our Group a success. We balance the stability of decades of credibility and the energy of a business which continues to evolve. This is an opportunity to create long-term value, build strong organisational capability and build consistent, sustainable success.