The Renna Group of Companies is looking for an Executive Director.
The Executive Director (COO) is a key partner to the General Director in managing the Holding's operational scope, ensuring high business manageability, strategy execution, and coordinated team performance.
Role Mission: To ensure a high level of manageability for the Holding and the realization of the General Director's strategy by creating an execution system that unites functions, business units, and the management team into a single operational scope. The Executive Director ensures strategy implementation and the achievement of sustainable operational results, acting within the management architecture without substituting the strategic role of the CEO.
The Executive Director is empowered to coordinate the activities of functional directors and business unit leaders within the framework of the Holding's approved strategy. They define operational priorities, ensure the execution of adopted decisions, initiate necessary organizational changes, and escalate issues beyond operational management or requiring strategic decisions to the General Director.
Area of Responsibility: Direct management – the company's operational scope ("from raw materials to shelf" – procurement, supply chains, logistics, operational production, operational sales, IT).
Matrix management: finance, HR, communications, quality.
Key Tasks:
- Ensuring the implementation of the Holding's strategy through the creation and development of an effective operational management system that ensures the achievement of approved business goals
- Ensuring a high level of manageability for the Holding by forming a unified operational scope that unites functional directors and business unit leaders into a single execution system
- Diagnosing the efficiency of the operational model, identifying systemic limitations and causes of operational failures, initiating changes aimed at improving manageability, decision-making speed, and operational efficiency; escalating issues requiring changes to business strategy or architecture to the General Director
- Forming a unified operational rhythm for the Holding: defining operational priorities, organizing regular interaction between functions and business units, ensuring transparency of the execution status of key initiatives
- Coordinating the activities of functional directors and business unit leaders, ensuring consistency of actions, timely decision-making, and execution of key agreements
- Ensuring the achievement of the Holding's consolidated operational and financial results, including joint responsibility with the General Director for key performance indicators and P&L management
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the operational scope's functioning and the quality of execution of adopted decisions without substituting the functional expertise of the leaders
Candidate Expectations:
- Higher education (technical/economic/management)
- Relevant operational management experience at the top management level in distributed manufacturing or holding structures for at least 5 years (FMCG – priority)
- Strong leadership qualities: systemic thinking, results orientation, stress resistance, ability to demand execution on equal terms
- Experience in change management and organizational transformations
- Deep understanding of P&L management, consolidated financial results, and operational efficiency
- Experience managing distributed teams of functional leaders within a matrix structure
- Successful experience in resolving complex functional cases arising at the intersection of functions; experience in managing priorities and implementing operational discipline
- Management maturity: developed emotional intelligence, broad business perspective, proactivity, ability to act within a given architecture without substituting the CEO's strategic role
- Alignment with the company's culture and values: love and pride for the product, respect for people, continuous development, partnership, and a positive attitude
