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What can we tell you about this fantastic business? We don't play favourites but we love this client and know them really well. We have been recruiting for them for years and we can speak with great conviction when we say that this is a great place to work. It also helps that we recruited the current COO 7 years ago who is taking early retirement and he will have a really positive story to tell you if you decide to apply for this role. This opportunity is not a tough sell by any stretch of the imagination. Our client is a technology company that excels in providing the infrastructure and sales capability to deliver best in class products to market. They are seeking a dynamic Chief Operating Officer (COO) to join their Executive Leadership Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive operational excellence and partner with an innovative and entrepreneurial CEO in a fast-paced and visionary environment. This role will be incredibly rewarding if you can take the vision and strategy from the CEO and execute it, and the financial rewards will be great too. What will be keeping you busy? Your Key Responsibilities: Partner with the CEO: Collaborate effectively with the CEO, focusing on operational delivery and attention to detail. Provide sound business judgment and pragmatic decision-making. Enable the CEO to explore new business opportunities by fully managing day-to-day operations. Operational Management: Oversee all business heads of Sales & Marketing, Finance, Operations, and IT. You do not need to be a subject matter expert you must have helped a business to deliver on its profit targets so knowledge of sales management in particular will be useful. Own the P&L and ensure high-quality management information for decision-making. Convert strategic direction into executable business plans with clear objectives. Drive quarterly business plan reviews and achieve revenue and profit targets. Integrate Business Functions: Implement effective systems and processes without stifling entrepreneurial spirit. Foster a sense of order to enhance efficiency and productivity. Handle internal conflict decisively and ensure unity behind decisions. Lead and Manage People: Establish a culture of accountability with clear individual objectives. Drive performance management and intervene early to keep the business on track. Coach and mentor key individuals, ensuring long-term competency and motivation. Maintain high visibility within the business. Foster a Positive Culture: Inspire and motivate the team, treating people equally and transparently. Recognise and reward great performance, maintaining a positive work environment. Implement staff engagement surveys and act on findings. Who are we looking for? Prior COO/General Manager/Managing Director experience in a similar-sized business or operating unit of a larger organisation. If you have worked in the tech or software industry this would be a bonus but industry experience is not a key factor. The ability to manage all operations that include Sales and Marketing and Finance is key. You don't need to have worked in sales but you do need to know what good looks like as you will be responsible for delivering the P&L via departmental heads. We would like to see demonstrable career growth, positioning this role as a natural next step. We are happy to consider people that have been there and done it as well as rising stars. The key with this hire is your cultural fit and ability to take ideas and see them through to completion, to that end, you will be a completer finisher. The CEO is a genuinely decent human being who is passionate about the business. He needs to work with someone who can find solutions and get things delivered but also someone who has the gravitas and credibility to say no and push back. This will be a key partnership. Does this sound like you? A rounded generalist with operational accountability in sales, operations, finance, and IT. Highly numerate and financially astute, with a passion for data and management information. Expert in designing scalable, pragmatic systems and processes. Strong prioritisation skills, separating the important from the urgent. Behaviours and Preferences: Shares the ambition and drive of the Executive Leadership Team, resilient and able to work at pace. Passionate about BAU, with strong planning, organisation, and attention to detail skills. A "completer finisher" who sets a strong personal example of ownership and accountability. An inspiring leader who motivates, develops, and supports the team. Sound Good? Send us your CV and it will be considered by the client. 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We are working with a charity organisation who perform very important work to find a Head of Software Development to lead their team of developers. If you would like the opportunity to lead a software team on Tech for Good projects, then this may be the role for you. Main responsibilities: The Head of Software leads the software development team and oversees all in house software development. This role will drive through improvements in technology and will lead a highly skilled team. Develop the underlying architecture for all software products and development. Manage and oversee multiple software projects, defining roadmaps Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following a software development lifecycle. Design and conduct tests, implement systems for software automation, continuous integration, and deployment. Proven programming ability using C#, .Net and willingness to learn additional languages and frameworks as required. Assure ongoing compliance with legal, security and agreed regulatory requirements. Line management of a team - appraise, set personal development plans and objectives and have regular 1 to 1s. Fostering an environment of continuous personal and professional learning. Be a technical mentor and adviser to the team and across the organisation. Mentoring and leading the team in pushing the boundaries of innovation and technology. Deputising for the CTO when required. Working closely with the CTO and the Head of IT to manage day to day operations and contribute to the long-term strategy for the Technology team. Guide cross functional teams through complex projects and organisational change. Preparation documentation. Prepare reports to communicate findings to stakeholders (internal and external as required) in verbal or written/presentation style formats. Key Competencies You will be responsible for people leadership, overseeing project management and having some hands-on development time. Have the ability to roll up sleeves to develop product, evaluate tools, diagnose and tackle technical problems where needed. Technical expertise including programming, testing and automation. Expertise in software development practices such as Agile and Scrum to enhance delivery and collaboration between the development and operations teams. Data collection, management, and analysis. Problem analysis and problem solving. Strong project management skills with the proven ability to deliver excellence in projects whilst navigating the complexities of software development.