Operations Development Executive in London

Nigel Wright is delighted to be partnering with The Daylight Company to appoint a Head of Operations. This is a rare opportunity to join a successful British product business at a pivotal point in its development, combining operational leadership, commercial influence and strategic impact.

This appointment will play a central role in helping the business build a professional, scalable and data-driven operating model. Working closely with the Executive Team, you will help shape the future of Daylight's global operations whilst creating the structure, visibility and discipline required to support continued growth and value creation. This is a hybrid role based out of their premises in NW10.

The Daylight Company is a UK-based designer and owner of specialist ergonomic lamps and magnifiers serving markets including art, craft, low vision, health and beauty, and industrial applications. The business designs and owns its intellectual property in the UK, manufactures through long-standing partners in China, and serves customers globally through trade, ecommerce, Amazon and international distribution channels.

The company has strengthened its leadership team, improved its commercial performance and established a clear strategy for growth. Having successfully repositioned key areas of the business in recent years, Daylight is now focused on building the operational capability required to support its longer-term ambitions.

This is far more than a traditional operations or supply chain leadership role. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to transform and professionalise the operational backbone of the business, influencing everything from demand planning and inventory management through to international supply chain, manufacturing partnerships, logistics, systems and reporting.

You will be trusted to build new processes, improve operational visibility, strengthen supplier and logistics performance, optimise working capital and create a scalable platform capable of supporting future growth. With responsibility for approximately 60% of the company's cost base, this is one of the most commercially significant roles within the organisation and offers genuine influence over business performance and strategic direction.

Reporting into the Executive Team, you will take ownership of the entire operations function and play a key role in shaping the future direction of the business.

• Leading demand planning, forecasting and S&OP development across all channels and markets.
• Driving inventory optimisation, working capital improvements and stock management discipline.
• Developing data-driven decision making through ERP, reporting, analytics and systems improvement.
• Identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency, profitability and customer service performance.
• Senior operations or supply chain leadership experience within a product-based business.
• A proven track record of improving inventory management and releasing working capital.
• Strong ERP knowledge and genuine hands-on data capability.
• Experience building processes, implementing change and improving operational performance.
• Strong leadership skills combined with commercial awareness and the ability to influence at Executive Team level.
• The energy, curiosity and drive to thrive in a growing entrepreneurial business.
• Executive Team membership with genuine input into strategy and business direction.
• The opportunity to support a visible growth journey and help create long-term value.
• A highly visible role with significant autonomy and potential progression to Operations Director as the function evolves.