Tarka Talent
Operations Development Lead
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Operations Development Lead
Hybrid: 3 days in Milton Keynes Office | £70,000 – £80,000
About the Organisation
Our client is a leading asset leasing and fleet solutions provider, focused on scaling operations across multiple sectors and markets. With recent backing from a major global private equity investor, the company is accelerating its group transformation agenda, investing in operational excellence, digital capability, and international expansion.
This mission-driven role has been created to bridge central strategy and operational delivery, ensuring transformational initiatives are effectively embedded across regional businesses and teams.
The Role
As the Operations Development Lead, you’ll translate high-level strategic priorities into actionable change, driving performance improvements in:
- Operational performance
- Asset utilisation
- Process improvement
- Commercial optimisation
You’ll play a pivotal role in converting data-driven insights into prioritised action plans, engaging leadership teams and challenging current standards to maintain realistic, relevant, and continually improving targets.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and execute the entire operational improvement cycle—from data collection to delivery.
- Develop and refine KPI frameworks to provide real-time visibility over site-level, regional, and group-wide performance metrics.
- Translate insights into strategic action plans, collaborating with regional and site leadership.
- Lead engagement through reporting, stakeholder communications, training, and performance forums.
- Push for measurable improvements, challenging and updating standards, targets, and benchmarks.
- Demonstrate expertise in operational excellence, continuous improvement, or business transformation.
- Work confidently with data analysis, performance reporting, and operational metrics.
- Influence senior stakeholders across multiple locations to drive change.
- Clearly link operational improvements to financial outcomes and value creation.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Requirements
Essential
- Proven experience in operational excellence, continuous improvement, or transformation leadership.
- Strong ability to work with data-driven insights and translate them into strategic action.
- Experience influencing and engaging with senior operational stakeholders across decentralised locations.
- A track record of driving high-impact change at scale.
- A hybrid or flexible working model is suitable for your current situation.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Preferred
- Experience in asset or fleet management, process automation, or digital transformation.
- Knowledge of advanced analytics, performance dashboards, and predictive modelling.
The Opportunities
Why You’ll Thrive Here
- A high-impact role with cross-group visibility and influence over large, complex operations.
- The chance to shape operational standards, automation, and data-analytics maturity at scale.
- Direct involvement in group-level decision-making with senior leadership.
- A hybrid work model, blending regular office presence (3 days in Milton Keynes) with time spent on-site.
- A competitive compensation package, including salary (£70,000–£80,000), bonus, and outstanding benefits.
What We Offer
✅ A pioneering organisation committed to long-term operational excellence and sustainable growth. ✅ A diverse, inclusive culture where merit is the only criterion for progression. ✅ A clear opportunity to advance your career with a company at a transformative juncture.
Apply today before roles are filled—this is a fast-track opportunity for the right candidate.
Note: Due to high applicant numbers, we can only respond to successful candidates.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills