Chief Operating Officer

• **About The Role **
• An exciting opportunity has opened up for Director – COO Office at Davy. As Director, COO Office, you will act as the enterprise control tower for the COO function, ensuring that strategy is translated into clear priorities, coordinated execution, and measurable outcomes across the organisation.
• You will work directly with the COO and senior leadership team to drive alignment, pace, and decision-making across a complex portfolio of initiatives. This role plays a critical part in ensuring Davy delivers its ambition to become a simpler, more digital, more scalable organisation.
• **Key Responsibilities include: **
• - Lead the Office of the COO, integrating program governance, planning, and executive reporting into a cohesive capability alongside management of all project management activities for the organisation
• - Act as a trusted advisor to the COO, shaping priorities, surfacing risks, and driving strategic trade-offs
• - Own the COO operating rhythm, ensuring alignment between strategy, execution, governance, and outcomes by co-ordinating COO Office engagement with key C Suite and Board stakeholders
• - Drive enterprise prioritisation and sequencing, helping align capital and capacity to the highest-value initiatives
• - Establish and lead governance forums and decision-making structures, enabling pace and clarity
• - Oversee portfolio performance, including delivery, financials, benefits realisation, and risk
• - Lead development and implementation of Board and ExCo reporting, providing clear, insight-led updates
• - Drive execution discipline and accountability, ensuring timely escalation and resolution of issues
• - Enable cross-functional alignment, removing barriers to delivery
• - Lead COO communications and engagement activity and consistent cascading of priorities across the organisation
• - Oversee risk and audit deliverables and COO-sponsored initiatives, while supporting cross-functional alignment and organisational effectiveness.

Director, COO Office

• Own end-to-end operational performance across all markets — site availability, dispatch reliability, SLA delivery, asset health, safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Hold executive sign-off authority for operational readiness, ensuring that what the business commits to deliver can be operated safely and at scale before it goes live.
• Maintain executive-level comprehension of electricity systems, market mechanisms, and regulatory direction across all operating jurisdictions, and cultivate that comprehension across the in-market leadership teams.
• Lead the central operational functions — Network Operations Centre, Market Operations, and Field Operations — and the in-market operational leadership across VIOTAS’s operating markets.
• Act as the senior executive lead for major operational incidents, chair the cross-functional reliability governance forum, and own the incident response architecture.
• Build the capability, structure, and leadership depth of the operations function, and drive automation, analytical rigour, and continuous improvement across the operating model.

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Director, COO Office

Chief Operating Officer