Operations Management
COO
Our service Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Operational excellence to protect your margin and scale.
Strategy is decided by the board, but real profitability is earned (or lost) in daily operations. Production bottlenecks, a broken supply chain, soaring logistics costs, or inconsistent quality are direct drains on your bottom line.
Selling is not enough; you have to deliver efficiently.
Service Interim COO (Chief Operating Officer) EPUNTO deploys a senior industry or services leader. Their mission is to get on the ground, optimize your processes (Lean, continuous improvement), renegotiate with suppliers, and align the entire value chain so your company can do more with fewer resources, directly improving EBITDA.
How does your Interim COO differ from a Plant Manager or Factory Director?
The vision. The Plant Manager focuses on daily production; the Interim COO has a business vision and responsibility for the P&L (Profit and Loss Statement). They connect the business strategy with operational capacity. They are not only concerned with keeping the machines running, but also with optimizing working capital, reducing inventory, and ensuring that the operation is profitable and scalable.
Why is it critical for a Private Equity (Value Creation)?
Because operational improvement is the fastest way to increase the value of the investee company. Our COOs implement crash plans to improve gross margin: plant consolidation (footprint), purchasing optimization, waste reduction, and productivity improvement (OEE). They prepare the operation to support growth or to maximize price in a exit.
How do you manage supply chain disruptions?
We live in times of logistical uncertainty. Our Interim COO professionalizes your Supply ChainDiversify your suppliers to reduce risk, renegotiate logistics contracts, and optimize demand planning. The goal is to protect your delivery capacity against external crises so you never stop serving your customers.
Is this profile only for industry or also for services?
Efficiency knows no sector. Although we have a strong industrial specialization (Automotive, Food, Pharmaceuticals), we assign COOs to service companies (Logistics, Technology, Facility Management) where the challenge is to optimize processes, digitize operations, and manage large teams of people with maximum productivity.
What methodologies do you use to reduce costs?
It doesn't cut costs haphazardly, but rather eliminates inefficiencies. It applies proven methodologies such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma o Kaizen Philosophy To identify what doesn't add value for the customer and eliminate it. Transform the company culture towards continuous improvement, leaving behind robust processes that endure after your departure.
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Our Interim Managers have over 10 years of experience
Leadership for Transformation and Change
We lead complex merger, restructuring, and cultural change processes. Our approach focuses on execution, ensuring team alignment and the achievement of defined objectives.
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Continuity and Leadership in Key Transitions
We provide a senior manager to assume the role immediately in the event of a vacancy, dismissal, or selection period, ensuring operational stability and uninterrupted strategic decision-making.
Strategic Impulse for Growth
We assign expert leaders in innovation and market development to launch new lines of business, open markets or execute accelerated growth plans, transforming vision into tangible results.
Professionalization for Successful Climbing
We integrate expert management talent in startups and scale-ups to structure processes, optimize operations and prepare the company for its next phase of growth and investment.
Expansion and Management of Global Businesses
As Valtus Alliance's exclusive partner, we provide executives with international experience to lead the opening of subsidiaries, manage cross-border projects, or resolve critical situations in foreign markets.
Crisis Management
In highly volatile situations (fraud, operational disruption, reputational crisis), speed of response is critical. We provide immediate, proven executive crisis leadership to take control, stabilize the organization, manage communication with key stakeholders, and steer the company through the contingency, protecting its value and reputation.
Restructuring and Turnaround
For companies in difficulty, with poor performance, or liquidity problems, we assign Interim Managers (such as CROs, CEOs, or CFOs) who are experts in turnaround. Their mission is to make immediate executive decisions to optimize costs, restructure operations, renegotiate debt, and get back on track to profitability and cash flow.
Compliance and Sustainability (ESG)
Increasing regulatory pressure and investor demands (ESG) present an unavoidable management challenge. We provide expert executives to design and implement compliance models and sustainability roadmaps (ESG) in an executive manner, ensuring risk mitigation and transforming obligations into a competitive advantage.
Available roles
The success of a mission depends on the leader who executes it. We provide C-Level executives (CEO, CFO, COO, CHRO…) ready to assume full responsibility for a specific area or the entire company. They are not consultants; they are executives with accountability They take control from day one. Learn about the key functions we cover.
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EPUNTO Interim Management
C. de Henri Dunant, 17, Chamartín, 28036 Madrid
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EPUNTO Interim Management
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47008 Valladolid
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