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The role requires strong operational leadership, strategic thinking, process discipline, and the ability to translate business objectives into scalable operating practices.\nThe COO will work closely with senior leadership to improve operational efficiency, establish robust processes, drive accountability, and ensure consistent execution across functions. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and taking ownership of complex operational challenges.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the organisation’s overall operations and ensure efficient execution of business priorities.\nTranslate strategic objectives into clear operational plans, initiatives, milestones, and measurable outcomes.\nEstablish and continuously improve operational processes, systems, policies, and governance frameworks.\nDrive operational efficiency, productivity, cost optimisation, and scalability across business functions.\nDevelop performance metrics, dashboards, and operating reviews to monitor business and operational performance.\nIdentify operational bottlenecks, process gaps, risks, and inefficiencies and drive corrective actions.\nBuild strong cross-functional coordination between Operations, Finance, Technology, Sales, HR, and other teams.\nEstablish clear ownership, accountability, and performance expectations across operational teams.\nLead business transformation, process improvement, and operational excellence initiatives.\nEnsure effective allocation of people, technology, financial resources, and other operational assets.\nDevelop scalable operating models to support business growth, expansion, and changing organisational requirements.\nMonitor service delivery, quality, turnaround times, productivity, and other operational performance indicators.\nIdentify opportunities for automation, digitisation, and technology-enabled operational improvements.\nEstablish appropriate controls and processes to manage operational, financial, compliance, and execution risks.\nSupport annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and resource planning in collaboration with senior leadership.\nReview operational performance regularly and present key insights, risks, and recommendations to leadership.\nBuild, mentor, and develop high-performing operational teams and future leaders.\nDrive a culture of continuous improvement, ownership, accountability, and execution excellence.\nManage critical operational issues and ensure timely resolution of escalations.\nLead strategic operational projects and other business-critical initiatives as required.\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\n4+ years of experience in operations leadership, business operations, general management, strategy, or a closely related function.\nStrong hands-on experience managing end-to-end operations in a growing or complex organisation.\nDemonstrated ability to design and implement scalable operational processes and systems.\nStrong understanding of operational planning, performance management, resource allocation, and process optimisation.\nExperience driving operational excellence, cost efficiency, productivity improvements, and business transformation.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making.\nExcellent leadership and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence senior and cross-functional teams.\nStrong commercial understanding and ability to connect operational decisions with business objectives.\nProven ability to manage multiple priorities, complex projects, and high-impact operational challenges.\nStrong communication, negotiation, and execution skills.\nComfortable working in fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and evolving environments.\nHigh ownership mindset with a strong focus on accountability and measurable outcomes.\nExperience building and scaling teams, processes, and operating models is highly desirable.\nAbility to balance strategic leadership with hands-on operational execution.\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, Management, or a related discipline is preferred.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4344,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T14:51:23Z"}],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.516,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:1","agency","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T22:58:20Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-chief-operating-officer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-chief-operating-officer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T22:58:20Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1208,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3792,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-25T00:00:00Z"}}}