Head of Operations Recruitment for Ambitious UK Businesses.
Adderleys provides specialist Head of Operations recruitment for UK mid-market, private equity-backed, and growth-focused businesses. We recruit operationally focused leaders who strengthen efficiency, improve customer delivery, develop high-performing teams, and drive consistent operational performance across manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, and service environments.
Recruitment Overview
The Head of Operations is typically a critical functional leadership appointment — responsible for translating strategic objectives into day-to-day operational excellence, managing cross-functional teams, improving processes, and ensuring consistent delivery performance across the business. Adderleys recruits Heads of Operations for businesses across manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, engineering, distribution, FMCG, and broader operational sectors. We identify candidates who combine hands-on operational credibility with the leadership and communication skills to manage upwards, across functions, and within complex team structures. Our retained search approach is focused on finding the right candidate for your specific operational environment — not simply presenting high volumes of broadly suitable profiles.
A high-calibre Head of Operations improves day-to-day performance, drives process improvement, strengthens team capability, and ensures operational delivery consistently meets commercial and customer expectations.
We recruit Heads of Operations with demonstrable experience of operational leadership, efficiency improvement, team management, KPI delivery, and cross-functional collaboration in demanding business environments.
Head of Operations Appointments We Support
Roles We Recruit
Head of Operations
Recruitment for functional heads responsible for operational leadership, process management, team performance, and delivery excellence.
Head of Operational Delivery
Leadership recruitment for operational delivery heads managing end-to-end service, production, or fulfilment performance.
Operations Manager
Senior operations management recruitment for businesses requiring experienced operational leaders below director level.
Head of Operations & Logistics
Recruitment for combined operations and logistics leadership roles managing integrated operational and supply chain functions.
Sectors
Industry Expertise
Industries
Growth Environments
- Mid-Market Businesses
- Scaling Organisations
- Private Equity-Backed Businesses
- Founder-Led Businesses
- Multi-Site Operations
- Operational Improvement Programmes
- Transformation & Change Environments
- Post-Acquisition Businesses
Our Approach
Why Businesses Choose Adderleys for Head of Operations Recruitment
Head of Operations Recruitment FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Operations Leadership Insights
Senior Operations Leaders: Understand Where the Market Is Moving Before It Moves.
The most successful Operations Directors and COOs don't wait for opportunities to find them — they build the professional positioning that ensures the right mandates reach them first. We work with senior operational leaders who want to access confidential executive opportunities, understand how the market values their skills, and receive intelligence on where leadership demand is growing across manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, and operationally complex businesses.
Access Leadership InsightsWhat You Receive
- Confidential operations leadership opportunities not publicly advertised
- Market intelligence on operations executive demand by sector
- Professional positioning and profile analysis
- Strategic career insight from specialist executive search consultants
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