Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Confidential client
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
We are looking for an experienced executive to assume overall responsibility for the operational areas of a manufacturer of high-precision machine tools. You will be responsible for assembly, production, procurement, logistics, and quality, driving the group-wide development of operations.
Your responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for assembly
- Overall responsibility for production
- Overall responsibility for procurement
- Overall responsibility for logistics
- Overall responsibility for quality
- Group-wide management and development of operations across multiple locations
- Ensuring the efficient interaction of all operational areas along the value chain
- Specific responsibility for the final assembly of complex machines
- Harmonization of processes throughout the entire organization
- Standardization of processes organization-wide
- Identifying and implementing efficiency improvements
- Introduction and implementation of structural improvements
- Close collaboration with management and involvement in shaping the company's development
Your profile
- Several years of experience in a comparable leadership role
- Experience in roles such as COO, EVP Operations, or Head of Operations
- Strong background in the manufacturing of complex capital goods
- Experience in an environment with high manufacturing depth (e.g., mechanical engineering, machine tool construction, plant engineering, or similar)
- Proven success in managing group-wide operations structures
- Deep understanding of assembly processes for complex machines
- Knowledge of the interfaces between assembly and procurement
- Knowledge of the interfaces between assembly and logistics
- Experience managing multiple locations
- Experience in leading interdisciplinary teams.
- Italian language skills are an advantage
- Assertiveness and decisiveness with clear leadership skills
- High operational presence and a strong hands-on mentality
- Ability to create structures and develop organizations further
- Down-to-earth, pragmatic, and solution-oriented working style
Benefits
- Key position
- Significant scope for creativity
- Role at top management level
- Opportunity to significantly shape an international organization operationally
- Opportunity to significantly shape an international organization structurally
- Working in an international environment
- Long-term perspective
- Established industrial environment
- Direct collaboration with executive management
- Responsibility for shaping operational and structural topics
About the company
The advertising company operates in the personnel services sector and is looking to strengthen its team at the Salzburg location.
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Markus Bauer
Recruiting Consultant IT & Technology
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