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Supply Chain & Operations

Interim COOs, supply chain leaders, and operations experts to strengthen performance and working capital management across manufacturing, procurement, logistics, and sales.

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Performance in motion

Keep operations delivering

Supply chains and operations must perform as demand shifts, costs rise, networks change, or critical roles open. Interim leaders and experts add leadership, specialized expertise, and execution power to strengthen manufacturing, procurement, logistics, and sales—and improve operational performance.

+147%

Growth in demand for process optimization and transformation skills

#4

Operations among functions seeking talent

13%

Of operations work is interim leadership
Sources: Heidrick, 2026 High-End Independent Talent Report. Based on proprietary client request data. Heidrick, 2026 Skills Index, "The interim expertise organizations need to turn strategy into execution".

Operations talent

Leadership across the value chain

From enterprise operations leadership to specialized functional expertise, organizations can bring in experienced leaders and experts for the role, initiative, or operating challenge at hand.

Interim COOs and operations executives

Lead operations, strengthen performance, and provide continuity in critical leadership roles.

Operational excellence and transformation experts

Improve processes, S&OP, operating models, systems, and performance management.

Supply chain and logistics leaders

Strengthen planning, material flow, inventory, distribution, logistics, and delivery performance.

Built around the operation

Experience where the work happens

Operations leadership is shaped by the environment: the plants, networks, suppliers, systems, customers, and economics behind the role. Our work across industries and executive leadership helps us bring clients leaders and experts whose operating experience matches the situation—and who know how to turn decisions into action.

Put experienced operators on the critical path

Keep a critical operation under control

When an operations leader departs or a critical role opens, performance cannot wait for a permanent hire. An interim COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, or functional leader can take ownership, maintain operating discipline, and keep teams, suppliers, production, and customers aligned through the transition.

Get supply moving again

Material shortages, unreliable suppliers, excess inventory, and weak planning can quickly affect production and customers. Supply chain and procurement leaders can strengthen S&OP, supplier management, sourcing, inventory, and material flow to restore visibility and delivery performance.

Raise plant performance

When productivity, quality, capacity, or delivery fall short, experienced manufacturing and operations leaders can establish stronger management routines, improve processes and material flow, and address the operational constraints keeping a plant or production network from performing.

Redesign the supply network

Changing demand, cost, sourcing, or service requirements can expose weaknesses in the existing network. Interim leaders and experts can assess sites, suppliers, inventory, logistics, and capacity, then help organizations reshape the network around the right balance of cost, service, resilience, and scalability.

Modernize without losing control

ERP, automation, and digital operations programs change the processes the business relies on every day. Interim operations leaders can connect systems with planning, production, procurement, and logistics so modernization improves visibility and execution without losing sight of day-to-day performance.

Strengthen the operation

Get the operations and supply chain leadership you need to improve performance where it counts.
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