A senior leadership opportunity for a hands-on specialty coffee and roasting professional who can build and scale a roastery while holding quality, operational and financial discipline.
What we are looking for: 10+ years in specialty coffee, coffee roasting or roastery operations, with hands-on expertise across the complete roastery business: green coffee sourcing, evaluation and supplier management; roasting profiles, production and quality control; cupping and sensory analysis; inventory, costing and stock control; sales, distribution and customer management; budgeting, margins, cash management and profitability. Q Grader or equivalent sensory qualification is highly desirable.
The mandate: establishing and leading the roastery's operating platform: operating model and organisational structure, SOPs and operational systems, roasting, production and QC systems, procurement, inventory and costing controls, budgets and financial reporting, KPIs, CAPEX and investment decisions, team building and commercial performance.
The ideal candidate must think like an operator and a business owner. The client is building a lean, financially disciplined and scalable organisation, so the successful COO must be highly hands-on, commercially minded and focused on profitability without compromising specialty coffee quality.
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