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Operations & Supply Chain Recruitment — TopHeads

AI-matched recruitment for operations and supply chain leadership — COO, VP Operations, plant and manufacturing management, logistics, procurement and quality. Matched on scale, footprint and regulatory regime.

Operations is a field where the relevant experience is almost entirely about context, and where a résumé read without that context is close to meaningless. Running a single high-mix low-volume plant, running a multi-site network, running a third-party logistics footprint and running a regulated manufacturing operation are four different jobs, and the regulatory regime — whether the work sits under FDA, aerospace quality standards, food safety or automotive requirements — frequently decides the shortlist before anything else does. TopHeads reads footprint, scale and regime as the gating facts they are.

Supply chain hiring has been reshaped by the last several years of disruption, and the profile in demand has moved with it. Employers now weigh network redesign, dual sourcing, nearshoring and genuine supplier risk management far more heavily than a cost-reduction record alone, and those are recent experiences that sit in the detail of what someone did rather than in their title. Matching on the substance of the work surfaces the people who have actually done it, and the written rationale says which part of their record supports the claim.

The leadership end of the field — COO, VP of Operations, general manager with full site P&L — is assessed the way any executive mandate is: against ownership, scale and outcome. Because TopHeads covers every professional specialty rather than a single vertical, an industrial employer can run an operations search, a finance search and an engineering search on one platform instead of stitching three together.