Part-time operations leader (COO)

Growth breaking your processes?

A part-time COO documents how the work gets done, sets a rhythm your managers run and builds processes that hold as you grow.

  • One documented way of working
  • Checks built into the work
  • An operation sized for the next stage
Brief us on your operation

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

A senior operations executive in a calm modern Dubai office
400+curated executives in the UAE collective · embedded within weeks of the brief

Our fractional COOs have run operations at

EmiratesDP WorldMajid Al FuttaimAramexCareemAmazonDHLChalhoub Group
The problem

Sound familiar?

  • You grew fast and never had time to build systems.
  • Every team does the same job a different way.
  • Mistakes are found by customers, not by you.
  • Each new hire adds confusion before capacity.

Growth did not break your business. It outgrew the way you run it. A part-time COO rebuilds that with your managers.

What changes

Processes that keep up with growth

Today

Every team does it differently

With a part-time COO

One documented way of working

The core processes written down and agreed, so the work does not depend on who is in.

Today

Mistakes found by customers

With a part-time COO

Checks built into the work

Quality and handovers checked inside the process, before the customer notices.

Today

Growth adds confusion

With a part-time COO

An operation sized for the next stage

Roles, tools and reporting set up for where the business is going, not where it was.

Brief us on your operation

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

How we solve it

A COO who has scaled operations builds processes that hold

Processes break when growth outpaces the way the work was set up. A part-time COO writes down how the work gets done and rebuilds it to scale.

  1. First

    Document how the work gets done

    One agreed way of working, written down, instead of each team's own version.

  2. Then

    Build the checks into the work

    Quality and handover checks inside the process, not left to whoever notices.

  3. Ongoing

    Size the operation for the next stage

    Roles, tools and a rhythm your managers run, built for the size you are heading to.

Senior, and done it before

Leaders from our curated collective of 400+ who have held the role and solved this problem before.

Inside your business, part-time

Half a day to three days a week, working with your team and owning the outcome. Not advice from outside.

No long commitment

Contracted business to business on one month’s notice. No visa, no permanent seat on the payroll, no end-of-service liability.

Built for owner-led UAE businesses with five or more people.

The comparison

A fractional COO, a full-time hire or a consultant

Three ways to bring in senior help. Only one owns the problem until it is fixed.

RecommendedFractional COO
Full-time hire
Consultant
What you get
Fractional COO · RecommendedA senior leader inside the business, owning the problem until it is fixed.
Full-time hireThe same seniority, at a full-time salary whether the work needs it or not.
ConsultantAdvice on one specific question, at a premium day rate.
Who does the work
Fractional COO · RecommendedThey do, alongside your team.
Full-time hireThey do, once the search and the notice period are over.
ConsultantYou do. The recommendations stay with you to deliver.
Cost
Fractional COO · RecommendedOur engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a full-time hire.
Full-time hireA senior package, plus visa, insurance and end-of-service liability.
ConsultantPremium day rates, which add up fast for anything ongoing.
Commitment
Fractional COO · RecommendedBusiness to business, on one month’s notice.
Full-time hireA permanent contract.
ConsultantA fixed scope. More work is a new proposal.
Best when
Fractional COO · RecommendedYou need the problem owned and fixed.
Full-time hireYou can keep a senior leader busy full time.
ConsultantYou need one specific answer and will pay a premium for it.
Brief us on your operation

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

How it works

From the brief to the match

  1. STEP 1

    Tell us the problem

    A short brief, read personally.

  2. STEP 2

    Meet your shortlist

    Leaders from our collective of 400+ who have solved it before.

  3. STEP 3

    Embedded within weeks

    Business to business, on one month’s notice.

Your brief

Tell us where the work breaks down

A few questions on the business and the problem. Every brief is read personally, and we reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

  1. We read your brief and reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
  2. We come back with leaders from the collective who have solved this before.
  3. No search fee. Business to business, on one month’s notice.
Step 1 of 3About 3 minutes

Where to reach you

So we can come back to you with names, not a form reply.

We reply to this address within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. Every brief is read personally. No newsletter, no list.

If you stop before sending, we may keep what you have entered so far so the team can pick your enquiry up with you.

We ask for a number because the fastest briefs are settled in one short call. We will not add you to a list or pass it on.

No search fee.

What an engagement costs, plainly.

  • Priced on time and scope, not on a salary.
  • Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire.
  • Business to business, on one month’s notice.
Questions

Before you brief us

Within weeks of the brief. Tell us the problem and we come back with leaders from the collective whose experience fits it.

An engagement is priced on time and scope, not on a salary. Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire. There is no search fee.

Most engagements run half a day to three days a week, set to what the problem needs and reviewed as the business changes, contracted business to business with one month's notice either way.

Neither. The leader works inside the business, part-time, owns the outcome with your team and stays on to run it, without a visa, a permanent seat on the payroll or end-of-service liability.

Part-time operations leader (COO)

Processes that keep up with growth.

Tell us the problem. We come back with leaders who have solved it before.

Brief us on your operation