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Operations & Delivery Director at som3 Recruitment

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

UK - mainly remote plus occasional on-site meetings

Leading digital retail business with solid foundations and great opportunity for continued growth is now ready for scale and strategic exit and needs an experienced CEO to ensure a smooth transition and positive impact on the company

The Role:

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who’s scaled digital retail businesses before and knows what it takes to get a company exit-ready. You’ll be setting the pace—driving commercial strategy, boosting performance, and preparing the business for acquisition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a clear growth and exit plan aligned with the board’s vision
• Optimise the digital retail operation—ecommerce, supply chain, marketing, and customer experience
• Build a strong senior leadership team and embed scalable systems and processes
• Lead commercial negotiations, investment discussions, and acquisition talks
• Represent the company with potential buyers, investors, and strategic partners
• Ensure the business is well-positioned operationally, financially, and culturally for sale

What We’re Looking For:

• Very experienced CEO in digital marketplace sector – such as travel, hospitality, retail
• Proven success in taking a digital business from entrepreneurial management to the next growth stage, achieving a strong exit valuation.
• Strong grasp of ecommerce metrics, digital marketing, CX, and online buying behaviour
• Commercially sharp
• Confident communicator and strong operator under pressure
• Clear understanding of how AI will transform the on line B2B and B2C business models
• Understanding platform economics, network effects, liquidity, and balancing supply and demand.
• Experience with both sides of the marketplace (buyers and sellers, service providers and consumers).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other and Management

• Industries

  Retail and Hospitality

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