Chief Commercial Officer / Managing Director

Managing Director / Chief Commercial Officer

Sector: Consumer Brands – Accessories & Lifestyle Apparel
Location: South East UK (Hybrid)

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity to join two founder-led, fast-growing consumer brands operating in the accessories and lifestyle clothing space. Both businesses are at a pivotal growth stage and require a senior commercial leader to drive scale, profitability, and digital acceleration.

This is a hands-on, entrepreneurial role, working closely with the founders of each business and playing a central role in shaping the next phase of growth.

The Role

The Managing Director / Chief Commercial Officer will have responsibility for commercial strategy and execution across both businesses, with a particular focus on digital, trading performance, and operational effectiveness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own and deliver the commercial and trading strategy across both brands

• Drive revenue growth, margin optimisation, and profitability

• Lead and develop e-commerce and digital trading performance

• Build and scale a shared digital and commercial capability across the two businesses

• Work closely with founders on strategic planning, budgeting, and execution

• Translate brand vision into commercially effective routes to market

• Ensure strong operational cadence, forecasting, and performance management

• Act as a senior, visible leader across both organisations

Candidate Profile

This role will suit a commercially driven leader who is ready to step into a broader MD / CCO remit.

Likely background:

• Currently operating as a Commercial Director, Trading Director, E-commerce Director, Sales Director, or No.2 MD

• Experience within consumer brands, ideally accessories, fashion, lifestyle, or adjacent categories

• Strong understanding of digital, e-commerce, and omnichannel trading

• Proven ability to commercialise brands online

• Entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and comfortable in SME environments

• Confident working alongside founders and influencing at board level

• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and operationally strong

• Ambitious and motivated by autonomy and growth opportunity

Experience within high-quality, design-led consumer brands is highly advantageous.

Why Apply

• Rare opportunity to operate at MD / CCO level across two growing brands

• Significant autonomy and influence

• Direct exposure to founders and strategic decision-making

• Opportunity to build and shape a scalable digital and commercial platform

• Ideal step-up role for a high-potential commercial leader