COO Chief Operating Officer

About Us Advisory, Executive Search, Senior Appointments, Interim Management Consultants Job Description Chief Operating Officer / Senior VP Operations job opening for a rapidly growing digital and eCommerce marketplace. A health, wellness and fitness brand founded in Austin, Texas. Fully remote home office based anywhere in Northern America with a direct hire employment agreement, willing to work to Central Time zone core hours. Excellent Compensation, High $ Six figure + bonus + executive benefits + LTIP You will report to and partner with the CEO. To be appraised as a suitable candidate, we need your profile to demonstrate: Strategic yet hands on: inspires people; manages change for high growth with sustainable teams Worked for at least one, mostly Direct to Consumer, Digital Marketplace company who grew somewhere in the range of $20MM to $50MM to $75MM and/or doubled up revenues (mostly NOT brick and mortar or B2B at this size however that may be relevant in the longer term) Understands direct response, direct to consumer (D2C) food supplement or CPG eCommerce online sales channels especially 1st party online shops Excellent communications skills in all mediums Data & analytics to support excellent decision making and appropriate KPIs and Exec Reporting Brilliant leadership for outstanding customer experience and service, shipping, fulfilment, customer reviews Process & procedures, corporate governance, strong operations background Sign off on technology, sales, business development, suppliers, insourcing / outsourcing, supply chain, purchasing, procurement, manufacturing Coach HR and Line Managers for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Talent Development & Succession Planning Process, technology, people, customer oriented to sustain and maximise growth while maintaining the culture Direction for legal, risk and compliance across W2 employees, contractors, freelancers and company products and services mindful of FDA and customer satisfaction Strong budget formulation and management experience to ensure profitable, sustainable growth in partnership with the CFO M&A, Capital Investments and Fundraising experience Excellent tenure and career progression within a variety of companies and sizes Experienced with remote working and distributed teams eg Zoom, Slack & Google Interested in consumer health, wellness, fitness and demonstrates those activities Initial interviews arranged with Jonathan at BluZinc to learn more about your experience, needs, aspirations and brief you in full about the company, products, services, culture, vision, goals and hiring process to ensure an excellent fit before we recommend you the the CEO and COO. BluZinc are an outside Talent Acquisition & Selection Consultancy, who have been retained by the client CEO to exclusively manage this hiring campaign throughout the end to end process. If the advert is published we are reviewing new applications.