Thomas Brooke International · 16 hours ago
Chief Operating Officer
Princeton, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveThomas Brooke International is an emerging company focused on groundbreaking proprietary coatings and metal component coating services for electrochemical systems. They are seeking a Chief Operating Officer to establish and execute the company’s strategy, lead manufacturing scale-up, and develop operational structures to support growth.
Chemicals
Hiring Manager
Paola Arguelles
Responsibilities
Provide effective leadership of manufacturing scale up: bring vision and strategic perspective as well as overall accountability
Build out the operations teams in alignment with company growth requirements
Lead the design and implementation of effective operational structures and processes to ensure successful operations and support continued growth of the Company. This includes manufacturing, supply chain, quality, HR, and EHS. As the role develops, opportunity to take over sales, finance and accounting functions
Develop and maintain close relationships with key commercial customers in high priority market segments. Understand their plans, analyze and validate the reliability of their forecasting, and create reliable internal financial projections to inform and drive manufacturing planning, as well as effective strategic decision-making
Support and facilitate R and D and new product development
Lead execution of the company’s operational plans to meet/exceed target KPIs for revenue, margin, retention, growth, safety, etc
Uncover obstacles and create executable plans to win larger commercial contracts; provide leadership to win the contracts
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in ME, ChE or related technical discipline is required
A core requirement is the experience and ambition to guide an emerging, entrepreneurial company through multiple growth stages realizing a scale up to full operational/manufacturing commercial success and sale of the company
Experience in innovative materials processing or manufacturing is required
Hands-on manufacturing leadership experience in identifying and implementing the right KPI's, including full P&L experience to most effectively guide production and new revenue generation
Direct experience leading implementation of quality programs/QMS is very helpful
High EQ, ability to relate effectively with a wide variety of strong personalities in an entrepreneurial setting with grace, patience and a good sense of humor
Willing to live/relocate to the Princeton NJ area and travel as needed to customers, government entities, research partners, industry events, etc
Preferred
Advanced degree helpful but not essential – real world experience is key
Experience with customer facing sales is helpful
Experience in the coatings or energy storage industry is preferred
Company
Thomas Brooke International
With more than thirty years in the industry, we've built extensive market knowledge about the technologies, value chains, downstream applications, and pace of innovation in paints, coatings, polymers, and specialized materials.
Founded in 1993
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase