Chief Operating Officer (COO)
London | Hybrid Working (3 Days Onsite)
Circa £120k Base + Executive Compensation Package
⭐ Ideal Candidate: 10 years + Big 4 Consulting, Strategy, Operations & Transformation
Summit Rec2Rec is partnered with a high-growth consultancy and executive search business undergoing a major scaling and transformation journey.
As part of an ambitious multi-year growth strategy, the business is looking to hire an Operations Director to help professionalise, scale, and future-proof its operational infrastructure whilst preserving the pace, agility, and entrepreneurial edge that has driven its success to date.
The business is specifically looking for someone from a Big 4 consulting, strategy & operations, transformation, or chief of staff-style background who understands what happens operationally as businesses scale — and more importantly, knows how to build the frameworks, processes, governance, and operating rhythms required to support that growth properly.
You may currently sit within:
- Strategy & Operations
- Business Transformation
- Chief of Staff
- Operational Excellence
- Performance Operations
- Enterprise Transformation
- Consulting Operations
- PMO / Strategic Delivery
- Growth & Scaling functions
…within firms such as:
- KPMG
- PwC
- EY
- Deloitte
- Capco
- Accenture
- or similar consulting and transformation environments.
The key requirement is that you understand how to operationally scale founder-led, high-growth businesses and can bring structure without creating bureaucracy.
The Opportunity
- Build scalable operational infrastructure
- Improve business performance visibility and reporting
- Design operational governance and accountability frameworks
- Create scalable processes and operating rhythms
- Support international growth initiatives
- Improve cross-functional alignment across teams
- Build management structures and operational cadence as the business scales
- Drive strategic operational projects across commercial, people, finance, and delivery functions
This role will suit somebody who enjoys:
- Solving operational complexity
- Building structure from ambiguity
- Working directly with founders and executive leadership
- Balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Scaling businesses during periods of rapid growth and transformation
What They’re Looking For
- 8–15+ years’ experience within consulting, strategy, operations, or transformation environments
- Strong experience scaling operational infrastructure within growing businesses
- Proven experience building frameworks, governance, reporting, and operational processes
- Excellent executive stakeholder management capability
- Highly commercial and strategically minded
- Experience operating internationally or across US/UK markets is advantageous
- Comfortable operating autonomously within fast-paced founder-led environments
- Strong communication and influencing capability
The business is particularly interested in individuals who naturally think:
- “What breaks as a business scales?”
- “How do we build operationally for the next stage of growth?”
- “How do we create visibility, accountability, and consistency without slowing the business down?”
Why This Role Is Different
This is a genuine opportunity to help shape the operational evolution of a scaling international business. You will not be stepping into a heavily layered corporate structure — instead, you will have:
- Direct access to founders and leadership
- Real influence on how the business scales
- Exposure across strategy, operations, and commercial growth
- The opportunity to build infrastructure that genuinely impacts business performance
- A highly entrepreneurial but commercially sophisticated environment
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