This role acts as a key support to the CEO, driving the effective delivery of business priorities across the organisation. The Commercial Operations Manager is responsible for translating company-level commercial strategic objectives into clear, actionable departmental targets, and ensuring their successful execution through robust tracking and governance.
• Lead and manage company-wide strategic projects assigned by the CEO, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines, quality standards, and business outcomes.
• Translate overall business objectives into structured departmental targets, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and ongoing performance tracking.
• Establish and maintain effective project governance frameworks, including progress tracking, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Work closely with functional directors and teams to drive execution of key business priorities and resolve delivery challenges.
• Support the CEO in preparing high-quality board-level presentations, business reports, and strategic documentation.
• Act as a key interface with other group entities, ensuring alignment on strategy, priorities, and execution progress.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of operational strategies, providing insights and analysis to support decision-making.
• Manage operational and administrative activities, including budget tracking, resource coordination, and office/logistics support where required.
• Manage the CEO’s schedule, key meetings, and travel arrangements to ensure optimal use of time and priorities.
Experience to succeed
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Business Management or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in commercial management, business operations, or strategic support roles.
• Experience within an automotive OEM environment, with a good understanding of business operations and company performance management.
• Experience supporting senior leadership (e.g. MD/CEO level) is highly desirable.
• Proven project management capability, ideally managing complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Good understanding of automotive industry operations, including sales, supply chain, or commercial functions, is advantageous.
• Experience working in an international or cross-cultural environment.
• Strong commercial and operational awareness, with the ability to interpret and operationalise business strategy.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Highly analytical, with strong problem-solving and structured thinking skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Proactive, results-driven, and able to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• High level of professionalism, discretion, and attention to detail.