Service
Experienced Operations Leadership Without Another Full-Time Executive
Senior operational experience for an agreed period, at the point the business needs it most.
Smaller companies often reach a stage where they need experienced operational leadership, but a permanent senior employee isn't justified — the salary, the commitment and the recruitment time all arrive before the business is ready.
Fractional operations work sits in that gap. I take ownership of the operational side for an agreed number of days, stabilise what's breaking, put systems in place, and leave the business able to run them without me.
When fractional operations makes sense
- — The founder is managing everything
- — Growth is creating operational problems
- — Nobody owns cross-functional execution
- — Important projects keep slipping
- — The business needs systems before hiring more people
- — A permanent senior operations hire isn't justified yet
Common symptoms
- — The founder is the operations department
- — Growth is outpacing the team's ability to deliver
- — A big project needs an owner and there isn't one
- — Hiring an executive feels premature and expensive
What this can include
- Operational stabilisation
- Process implementation
- Founder support
- Project leadership
- KPI implementation
- Team accountability
- Cross-functional execution
- Vendor management
- Operational restructuring
- Special projects
- Scaling preparation
Example deliverables
- — Agreed scope and time commitment
- — Weekly operating rhythm and reporting
- — Documented systems your team keeps afterwards
- — Handover plan
The goal is to become unnecessary
A fractional engagement is a defined period, not an open-ended retainer. Whatever we put in place — the operating rhythm, the reporting, the ownership map — is documented and handed over so your team keeps running it.
Typical engagements
- Taking ownership of delivery while the founder focuses on sales
- Running a scaling project end to end: process, tooling, hiring plan
- Introducing a weekly operating rhythm with clear owners and numbers
- Stabilising operations after fast growth or a period of churn
Questions people ask
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Describe the problem. I'll tell you whether this is the right service — or something simpler.
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