Graham Coughlan says Mansfield Town's ambition was the main attraction for him to move to the League Two club.
Despite leading Bristol Rovers to fourth in League One, Coughlan has departed the Gas to join Mansfield after being approached by them last week.
After being unveiled at Field Mill, Coughlan said he was looking forward to being able to return home to Sheffield with his family.
He said to the club website: "This is a massive opportunity and a massive chance for me. The main attraction was the ambition of the chairman.
"How he spoke, the ambition he was displaying, the facilities at the club, it was a tremendous and huge opportunity to take on a football club and try to get them promoted.
"I’ve gone across to the training ground and I think the facilities are better than a lot of Championship clubs’ facilities – they are very impressive.
"The opportunity to manage a club like Mansfield Town, with the ambition at this football club, the facilities, and of course to be able to be at home with my wife and kids, was an absolute mammoth attraction.
"I’ve been living in this part of the country for the best part of 20 years and it’s an honest, hard-working area – that’s what I am and that’s the background I’ve come from.
"That’s all we drummed into the players at Bristol Rovers.
"If you’re not honest and you’re not hard-working, you won’t have any place at this football club. We will be honest, we will be hard-working and we will wear that jersey with pride. That’s all I ask of the players."
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