Question about management position

Irishkid

Hello,

I have a small company of around 30 people and am in the process of restructuring it to cope with the fast growth we have had, we went from 2 to 30 in a couple of years. Essentially we have split the staff into 6 different knowledge groups and all perform services in those areas varying from engineering to lab testing. I would like each of the groups to report to one individual whoh will do the following:

Meet weekly with each group for a status update
Experienced Project Manager themselves
Experienced with Kpi's
Have visibility on all ongoing projects/contracts, potentially 13 two or three year projects
Quarterly and yearly review with all group leads
Raise issues with senior mgr when problems are identified
Ensure each group is working to the max capacity.

My question is what is the name of the role of that person, is it operations manager (we don't have a production line so I am not sure on that one), technical manager? Any opinions greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Oh and if this is you and you feel like relocating to Barcelona for 45k let me know.

Kinetic^

General/Office Manager? I wouldn't get too hung up on names tbh.

tickingalong

It depends what the other titles the team members have as you will want to designate seniority. If the term 'manager' has not been used for any of the team members, you should keep it simple with something like 'Manager, Environmental Analysis'. This will also allow future scope to designate Senior Managers, Director etc. as the company continues to grow!

HellFireClub

You need to do up an organisational chart to put some structure on who will be reporting to who and to make sure that the whole thing hooks up together in a way that makes sense for delegating and decision making purposes and shows clear lines of command and responsibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_chart

Eoin

Programme Manager perhaps, though I think that implies that all the projects are being run as part of one programme, rather than being independent.

Operations manager could be appropriate - often used in IT as well, so it doesn't need to related to a production line.

Senior project manager might sum it up as well.

Kinetic^ wrote: »

General/Office Manager? I wouldn't get too hung up on names tbh.

Office manager sounds more like someone who runs the office administration (reception, stationery and all that sort of stuff). General manager is often another term for MD, so that doesn't sound right either.

If you're recruiting, then you do need to think about names as that's what people will be responding to when they apply.

aspasp1

business manager