Chief Operating Officer

Join us in shaping a sustainable world free from plastic pollution!

At PlasticFri our vision is a world free from plastic pollution. Plastics made from petroleum remain in our environment for thousands of years! By 2050 oceans could have more plastic than fish. Were on a mission to change that.

PlasticFri has been named the Worlds Most Innovative Sustainability Startup among 1400 companies globally!

We also won the prestigious Global Tech Innovator award selected from 2000 technology companies worldwide.

Weregrowing our team and looking for anoutstanding candidate to join us in our mission!

Chief Operating Officer

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) will be a member of the management team reporting to the CEO and responsible for driving the operational success of PlasticFri. The COO works closely with the founders to ensure a cost efficient scalable way of working and manage areas such as human resources logisticsstrategic planning budget setting and measuring and reporting metrics financial forecasts as well asbuilding scalable processes systems and tools required to scale the company.

Main responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Establish operational efficiency
  
• Establish structure for management team to work effectively setting and driving meeting agendas metrics roles and responsibilities and mandates
  
• Establish processes procedures and guidelines for PlasticFri to follow Governance best practices and ways of working
• Build and optimize internal processes and workflows to enhance operational efficiency and productivity cost savings and scalability
  
• Define and monitor metrics to track progress and identify areas for improvement
• Identify plan and implement tools resources and policies needed for the company to scale and lead implementation communication and training to employees.
• Cascade company metrics to teams and communicate to ensure everybody knows their goals
• Manage financial processes including forecasting and budgeting until Financial Manager is in place
• Manage investor reporting compile reports and metrics
  
• Building partnerships with key stakeholders
• Supply chain management & development
• Oversee customer journey from order placement to delivery
• Lead initiatives to scale operations identify new market opportunities and support company growth
• Manage the development and launch of new production sites
• Strategic work: Translate the companys strategic vision by making itinto actionable plans initiatives and metrics

Ideal Candidate

In order to succeed in the role we believe that you have the following qualifications:

• At least 5 years work experience from operational managementroles in business operations strategy & planning
  
• Additional work experience from VC backed scaleups PE/VC or consulting firms with focus on operational roles are preferred
• Degree in business administration/engineering
• Have experience and was active in raising capital from externals including VC before
  
• Excellent analytical skills and a passion for number crunching
  
• Strategic mindset and commercial interest
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written in Swedish and English
• Tech savvy and skilled in working with new tools and software and AI
• Great relationship skills with demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders at senior levels
  

We also see that you;

• Thrive in a fastpaced environment and being a doer!
  
• Are passionate about impact and sustainability
• Are proactive and independent and take own initiatives and execute and deliver on them in order to achieve great results
• Are curious to learn new areas and ways of working and improve while realising your full potential
  

Interested

This is a onceinalifetime opportunity!We are interviewing continuously with the aim of filling the position as soon as possible. Apply today!