Chief Operating Officer

Our client is a very dynamic rapidly growing internationally successful operating group of companies (SME) in various industries (chemicals recycling food consumer goods) with production and processing sites in different countries all over the world.

The company is headquartered in Switzerland and currently boasts a workforce of 115 employees. Due to international expansion and ambitions we are looking for the new

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (COO)

To ensure smooth and sustainable day to operations in the family of companies while keep on growing.

The nature of the activities and current state of the companies will also demand a strong emphasis on M&A and integration of these acquired companies.

Youre always on the lookout for improvement and ways to broaden perspective. Your focus is on delivering results and leading activities towards the nish with a good is good enough mentality. While the Founder is looking to grow the company and has his eyes on tomorrow you bring balance to the equation by focusing on what is needed today to ensure a solid organizational foundation.

You make sure things get done the way they should by the right people at the right moment.

Tasks

Your main responsibilities & activities

• Coordinate strategic plan making together with Founder and other leaders within the family;
• Turn the company visions and strategies into excellent execution: shortterm plans and goals for the organization (year quarter month week);
• Help teams and team members take full accountability for their part;
• Design and manage futureproof organizational structures;
• Evaluate performance by analyzing and interpreting data and business performance metrics (KPIs);
• Ensuring greenelds and acquisitions are integrated seamlessly;
• Keeping a close eye on the daytoday operations making sure all companies run smoothly;
• Responsible for People/HR Finance and Legal across all ventures
• Identify explore and exploit synergies between participations
• Drive annual budget/P&L and managing this process including (monthly) reviews with board together with controller
• Standardize work processes across the di erent participations;
• Coordinating nancial stakeholder relationships and nancing raising activities (together with the Founder)
• Challenging Founder in taking decisions on investments where his time and energy is best spent and other business ideas and opportunities

Requirements

Qualifications / Experiences

• Background in Economy or Engineering (Chemical Engineer) with focus on Finance
• 10y experience in an endtoend responsibility (i.e. MD COO Chief of Staff) with focus on trading/manufacturing industry (chemicals byproducts food consumer goods)
• Strong understanding in production and processing industry
• Managerial and strong leadership experience
• Having worked in a multicultural multilingual crossfunctional teams end environment
• Experiences in production planning strategical procurement/sourcing research new and alternative suppliers and markets
• The ability to close the best deals to fostering long term relationship with suppliers and clients that are commercially and legally fully compliant with companys policy and strategy
• Proficient in English solid understanding of Dutch and German is an asset any other European language welcome
• Willingness to relocate to Switzerland Swiss work permit B/C or passport holder of EU
• Willingness to frequent travel internationally

Soft Skills

• Strong business acumen entrepreneurial mindset P/L driven
• Can build up strong relationship to customers and supplier networker
• Leadership personality empowerment of people teambuilder
• Welldeveloped communications skills oral written and presentation
• Multitasking selfstarter handson mentality