Part-time Operations Director | Professional Services Firm | Venlo

Build the operating foundation for the next stage of a specialist, people- and knowledge-intensive business. As a part-time Operations Director, you will help us turn strategy and good intentions into clear priorities, consistent action and sustainable results. In this newly created role, you will be instrumental in building the operating foundation for the next stage of Treasurer Search.

In this position, you will work closely with Pieter, who founded the company and currently manages the team. You will help Treasurer Search become more effective by creating clear priorities, translating them into action and ensuring consistent follow-through. Together, we will pursue our growth ambition from a stronger foundation. More specifically, you will:

• Listen to the team, understand the business and identify the real bottlenecks. Manage people and performance, using data and analytics to identify together what needs to improve.
• Gather and interpret relevant information about our efforts, results and priorities, so that we can learn what works and where to improve.
• Help Pieter, the team and individual colleagues turn ambitions into practical plans.
• Create a clear rhythm for priorities, ownership, actions and follow-up.
• Help the organisation and its members discover what works, remove inefficiencies and stay focused.
• Support people in using their strengths, increasing ownership and improving performance.
• Act as Pieter’s key operational sparring partner as he focuses on external relationships and selected senior and group treasurer assignments.
• Help build and lead a stable, robust and future-proof organisation that can grow when performance and quality support it.

You are smart, curious, analytical and consistent. You ask the extra question needed to understand a goal, bottleneck or recurring problem. You follow through without becoming rigid. You know how to work with knowledgeable professionals who have expertise, opinions and independence. You help people improve through clarity, good questions, constructive challenge and practical support, not through pressure or bureaucracy. We are a results-oriented organisation, and we want to preserve the trust and humanity of our culture.

You are:

• Strongly results-oriented and comfortable with accountability.
• Able to combine data, judgement and action.
• Confident in difficult but respectful conversations.
• Experienced in a professional-services, consultancy, financial-services or other knowledge-intensive environment.
• Comfortable in an international and highly automated organisation.
• Motivated by the reality and pace of a small entrepreneurial business.
• Available for approximately two days per week.
• Willing and able to work primarily from our office in Venlo.
• A master’s degree or equivalent professional experience is expected. Experience in recruitment is not required, the role requires operational leadership, not recruitment expertise.

We are an international specialist recruitment organisation focused on permanent and interim corporate treasury roles across the Benelux and DACH markets. Since 2009, we have grown into an international specialist organisation with a team of ten professionals and a strong market presence. Our ambition is to become the obvious partner for corporate treasury recruitment; in some countries, we already are. This is an operational leadership role, not a recruitment or consulting position.

The role is expected to be approximately two days per week. Remuneration will be discussed with Pieter based on experience, availability and fit. Payroll can be arranged through either our Dutch BV or our German GmbH.

Our office is in Venlo, the Netherlands, where most of the team is based. Regular physical presence is essential. Remote working will be possible only on an exceptional basis.

Please submit your CV and a full application explaining why this role appeals to you, what experience you would bring and how you create accountability without damaging trust.

The selection process will include conversations with Pieter and relevant team members. We also expect to use structured cognitive and personality assessments as part of a careful, two-way selection process.

Venlo