Glendale is a family owned company, established in 1989 and delivering ‘green services’ throughout Great Britain. Glendale’s activities include grounds management, landscaping, countryside/estates management, horticulture and arboriculture.
Turnover in 2023 is expected to be £50m and we are proud of our reputation in being an award winning employer delivering award winning services.
Committed to the environment, Glendale is a carbon neutral business that seeks to improve the environment through our activities. We go above and beyond to ensure that the planet is not adversely affected by our business. Our activities include: ensuring local parks and open spaces are maintained to a high standard, tree safety is maintained by our arboricultural teams, mature trees are saved by our Civic Trees business and we ensure we meet the biodiversity net gain ambitions of our clients through our commitments to conservation and improvements. Glendale offers the full range of landscape services from one unique source.
Glendale currently delivers in excess of £12m p.a. of arboricultural services to clients across the UK and now seeks a General Manager to head up our successful territory covering South London.
The Opportunity
This is an outstanding career opportunity with a market leader to deliver strategically important contracts offering the full range of arboricultural services. Clients include Croydon, Bromley, Southwark & Wandsworth Councils as well as, housing, highways, woodland, estates and private landowners clients.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrable track record of managing arboricultural services and teams and be able to drive productivity whilst ensuring our teams provides a quality, safe service. You should have a strategic outlook to enable continuous improvement, identifying opportunities and efficiencies along the way.
This is a hands-on role involving monitoring the progress of contracts and taking quick and effective action to maintain both high productivity and client satisfaction. You will have full responsibility for the contract accounts and overseeing the progress of works to meet the needs of our clients and financial expectations.
