WHAT’S THE JOB? CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
WHO’S THE EMPLOYER? The National distributor for a premium brand global agricultural OEM. The Company actively markets and supports the brand throughout the country via a network of well-equipped outlets to ensure first class customer service and product uptime. Technology focused, and with an excellent portfolio of products, services and business solutions, the Company continues to flourish in this key market.
WHAT’S THE INDUSTRY? Capital equipment – agricultural machinery
HOW WILL I BE REWARDED? With an excellent salary package plus bonus and extensive benefits
WHAT’S THE LOCATION? Romania
WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE ROLE? Reporting to the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer’s responsibilities are centred around the Company’s day to day operation and commercial function, which reflect the long term strategy and future vision. The Chief Operating Officer will develop high-performing teams at all levels, ensuring that structure and systems fully align with strategic goals. The Chief Operating Officer will be highly visible both within the business and externally with customers and suppliers, demonstrating excellent leadership and decision-making capabilities in the best interest of the Company.
WHAT EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE WILL I BRING TO THE ROLE?
- You’re a highly experienced, degree-level educated, successful senior leader continuing your upwards career trajectory, with a first-class track record and minimum of ten years in managing large organisations
- You bring significant industry expertise from the agricultural equipment sector, showing deep understanding of the global and local economic factors which influence business performance
- You will need to demonstrate exceptional experience in managing and measuring budgets and overall financial performance, underpinned by a robust reporting structure
- You’re highly business minded, with a creative streak that embraces change management, adaptability and entrepreneurship
- You will bring excellent commercial know-how and negotiation skills to the role, capable of presenting win-win proposals and ensuring that this cascades to all customer facing teams
- You understand the rapidly-changing world of business management systems, and have led transformational projects which result in fit-for-purpose, digitised and automated processes which improve business performance and customer experience
- You’ll bring first-class people, interpersonal and relationship building skills to the role, with robust evidence in your career history of developing teams, identifying future leaders and ensuring retention of key talent
- You’re a natural problem solver and decision-maker focused on solutions rather than obstacles
- Resident in (or prepared to relocate to) Romania with the right to work, you must have business-level, spoken and written Romanian language skills (or have fluency in other Romance languages eg: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, plus excellent language acquisition skills) as well as a minimum of business level English language. You should be comfortable with regular travel, both domestic and international.
WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? Do you possess the high-level strategic experience that the role requires? Are you a motivated and driven individual with a creative, entrepreneurial outlook who has excelled and driven genuine change in the premium brand agricultural equipment sector? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Please email your CV and covering letter directly to [email protected]