ceo - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cranleigh Scientific

Cranleigh Scientific
Cranleigh Scientific
Verified Company
Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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The Role
An experienced CEO is needed to lead our client through its next scale-up phase.

You will be a proven leader with a track record of building and scaling a company from startup to scaleup.

You will have a reputation for strategic acumen combined with exceptionalcommercial and operational execution.

You will be entrepreneurial in nature and looking for an opportunity to leverage your deep industry experience into a senior-level role with a meaningful ownership stake linked to the business's overall success.

You musthave an understanding of materials science, processing and FMCG


As CEO you will provide a key leadership role in developing and executing business strategy, expanding market opportunities including global revenue build out, and establishing alliances, acquisitions, partnerships, and other collaborations.

Working withthe existing team and the Board of Directors, the CEO will play an integral role in leveraging their experience and skills to align the ground-breaking technology development with highly ambitious strategic and commercial goals at this uniquely positionedmaterials science organisation.


Duties include:


  • Leading and motivating the company ensuring that everyone knows the long term vision of the company, and what they personally can do to deliver it
  • Spearheading the development of business relationships and strategic partnerships at the Csuite level to commercialize the technology
  • Overall ownership for strategic, commercial and operational activities
  • Developing & growing the existing team of employees and external partners while ensuring the open and collaborative company culture is retained
  • Building, motivating, and leading a highperformance management team, and providing mentoring to the team
  • Defining and agreeing the future strategic direction of the company in conjunction with the staff, partners and Board of Directors, and establishing and tracking objectives and KPIs for the business
  • Making quick decisions to match the speed and pace required of the company
  • Securing a robust IP position both in terms of patents and knowhow
  • Assisting as required in raising additional capital at appropriate valuations to enable the company to meet sales, growth and market share objectives
  • Acting as the key company spokesperson with clients, investors, business partners and the press
  • Liaising with the technical team on critical issues related to the product roadmap and customer deliveries
  • Be passionate about the company's mission of addressing plastic pollution and the potential to build a truly category defining company
  • A real passion for sales: selling a vision and products to customers, partners, staff and investors
  • Fully understands the value and use of marketing and a consumer facing brand
  • Have a successful track record of leading and developing high performing technical teams, and can balance the need to protect them to ensure quality, and driving them to deliver products on time
  • Demonstrable ability to navigate an everchanging market place, by rigorous analysis as well as creative drive
  • Startup experience, especially in scaling a team and raising funding for later stage startups
  • Living in or willing to relocate to Cambridge
  • Has been a CEO previously, or a General Manager with P&L, Engineering and Sales responsibility
  • Is flexible enough to deal with coopetition with other sustainable material players to provide the best solution to customers
  • Is able to work comfortably at C level in companies
  • Understands and navigate their way through complex FMCG manufacturing supply chains
  • Has scaled technology from lab, through pilot plant to high volume manufacturing
  • Will get their hands dirty to solve the short term problems that startups face
  • Ideally, they will also have good understanding of materials, conversion of materials, and process engineering
  • Can balance long term strategic goals with a short term focus on daytoday execution
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