Area Director

Area Director - Southeast (Essex & Suffolk)

Home-based role with extensive regional travel. Full-time, Monday-Friday (40 hours per week). Competitive salary. Closing date: 27th April (subject to change).

How You'll Make a Difference

As Area Director, you'll work closely with the Regional Director and Area Support Manager, providing strategic, operational, and commercial leadership across your area. Your focus will be on delivering exceptional clinical quality and client care while developing sustainable, high-performing teams.

You'll collaborate with Central Support functions to embed the company values - We Care, We Dare, We Share - and play a key role in recruiting, developing, and retaining outstanding veterinary talent.

This leadership role is for someone who enjoys variety, influence, and impact, and who thrives on building strong relationships across multiple sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Ambassador of our values and responsible for embedding our company culture.
• Mobilise the UK strategy within an area through facilitating best practice sharing, growing effective communication channels between practices, and supporting the rollout of VCOs and other initiatives.
• Oversee the operational and commercial performance of practices within your area.
• Attract, retain, and engage staff across the area.
• Work closely with Area Support Manager, demonstrating an aligned approach to area priorities, performance, and improvements.
• Line manage Clinical Directors.
• Support future network planning and growth initiatives by providing strategic information and input as necessary.
• Must hold full and valid driving licence.

You Might Be a Great Fit If

You'll be a confident, emotionally intelligent leader with a passion for people and performance. You'll bring:

• At least 5 years of leadership experience, with proven coaching and mentoring skills, and a desire to develop our people.
• Proven ability to maximise clinical and financial performance of individuals and teams.
• A keen understanding of key Financial & Clinical KPIs and the ability to identify actions to improve performance across individuals and teams.
• Strong people skills (engaging, educating, motivating, inspiring) to ensure you can bring together diverse teams across multiple sites.
• A leader who can collaborate with their team and peers, able to lean into High Challenge & High Support.
• A trailblazer with a well-developed set of demonstrable emotional intelligence skills, recognising who needs what and when.
• Vision to lead for the future, someone agile, resilient, dynamic, and results-driven to deliver excellence.
• An influencer who listens well, is authentic & trustworthy while not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• An exceptional communicator, who can deliver the key strategic vision with a strong emphasis on the 'why' and the 'what'.

Additional Requirements

• Full and valid UK driving licence.
• Willingness to travel extensively across Essex, Suffolk and the wider Southeast.
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

How We'll Support You

At IVC Evidensia, we're committed to supporting you in a senior executive leadership role. You'll benefit from:

• Overall leadership of a region with the autonomy to shape strategy, culture, and performance.
• Senior-level influence across operations, client experience, and business outcomes.
• Opportunities to lead large-scale change and drive long-term organisational impact.
• Ongoing learning and development to support executive and leadership growth.
• A collaborative, values-led culture focused on care, community, and continuous improvement.

What We Offer

• Work-life balance.
• 6.8 weeks annual leave including bank holidays.
• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced family leave and pay across maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy.
• Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy.
• Retail discounts and cashback offers.
• Reduced-cost veterinary care for your own pets.
• Car allowance of £475 per month or a company car.

IVC Evidensia UK

IVC Evidensia, The Chocolate Factory, Keynsham, BS31 2AU, United Kingdom

We are committed to diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging. We are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are open to hearing from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

Any questions before applying?

Speak to Megan Dawson from our recruitment team who would be happy to help you with any questions you have before applying for this role.