Executive Operations Manager

• Full-time
• Job Field: Marketing
• Candidate Location: UK
• Hire type: Full time

About the Position

The Executive Operations Manager is a trusted partner to the CMO, responsible for turning strategy, priorities, and decisions into coordinated execution and operational realities across the organisation to reach our maximum potential. The Executive Operations Manager ensures the organisation remains aligned, informed, and able to execute effectively. They spot gaps before they become problems, identify risks before they become blockers, and provide additional coordination, challenge, and support wherever they are needed most, acting as a force multiplier rather than a direct owner of business outcomes.

Operating across strategy, operations, project/programme management, and executive support, this role ensures that important initiatives move forward with clarity, speed, and accountability.

Responsibilities

Strategic Execution and Operational Leadership

• Act as a trusted partner to the CMO, helping to ensure that strategic priorities, decisions, and commitments translate into effective execution.
• Maintain a live view of strategic priorities, decisions, and organisational commitments.
• Identify blockers, barriers, risks, and dependencies that could impact delivery - ideally before they become visible.
• Drive accountability, momentum, and follow-through across key initiatives.
• Surface friction, issues, opportunities, and trends that deserve leadership attention.
• Support executive reporting, board materials, and strategic communications.

Programme and Project Management

• Provide programme/project management where required to help strategic initiatives remain on track.
• Bring structure, visibility, and coordination to complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Support governance, milestones, success measures, and progress tracking.
• Coordinate stakeholders and dependencies across teams.
• Intervene where projects require additional support, course correction, or escalation.
• Bring structure, pace, and transparency to strategic programmes.
• Act as a PM resource when additional support is needed for priority initiatives.

Stakeholder Management and Alignment

• Build strong relationships across the organisation to improve collaboration and effective execution.
• Act as a central coordination point for strategic initiatives between leadership teams and stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment when priorities, resources, or responsibilities feel unclear or contested.
• Represent the CMO in selected meetings, projects, and working groups.
• Support informed decision-making through clear communication and visibility.

Problem Solving and Organisational Effectiveness

• Identify and address challenges that hinder performance, delivery, or collaboration.
• Act as a trusted problem solver/fixer for complex, ambiguous, or sensitive issues.
• Recommend and implement practical improvements to ways of working.
• Help teams navigate obstacles to maintain momentum.
• Drive greater visibility, accountability, and execution discipline.

AI, Automation, and Continuous Improvement

• Champion the use of AI and modern technology to improve organisational effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve workflows.
• Introduce tools and practices that increase productivity and reduce manual effort.
• Support teams in adopting AI-enabled ways of working.
• Continuously challenge existing processes to improve speed, quality, and outcomes.

Requirements

• Proven experience supporting C-Suite or senior leadership with execution of strategic initiatives across business operations, programme management, consulting, strategy, or executive support within a complex organisation.
• Exceptional organisation and prioritisation skills, able to manage multiple projects/initiatives simultaneously and seamlessly without dropping threads or requiring close management.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills to drive cross-functional collaboration - and influencing effectively with Sales, Consulting, Operations, Marketing, Finance, and HR - without direct authority.
• Skilled in operational cadence design, performance dashboards, and metrics-driven decision-making.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Exceptional judgment, discretion, and professionalism, with proven ability to operate with highly confidential information without compromise.
• Strong understanding of AI, automation, and productivity tools with demonstrable value of applying them to improve ways of working.

Nice to Have

• Experience within technology, software, or professional services environments.
• Experience leading organisational change or transformation initiatives.

We Offer

• Very generous holiday (PTO) allowance.
• Flexible working hours.
• MacBooks for all employees.
• Additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.
• Exceptional Time Away Policy including 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.
• Trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working.

About the Company

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com, and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status.

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