CEO

• The role includes:

  • •    Leading and motivating the company ensuring that everyone knows the long term vision of the company, and what they personally can do to deliver it
  • •    Spearheading the development of business relationships and strategic partnerships at the C-suite level to commercialize the technology
  • •    Overall ownership for strategic, commercial and operational activities
  • •    Developing & growing the existing team of employees and external partners while ensuring the open and collaborative company culture is retained
  • •    Building, motivating, and leading a high-performance management team, and providing mentoring to the team
  • •    Defining and agreeing the future strategic direction of the company in conjunction with the staff, partners and Board of Directors, and establishing and tracking objectives and KPIs for the business
  • •    Making quick decisions to match the speed and pace required of the company
  • •    Securing a robust IP position both in terms of patents and know-how
  • •    Assisting as required in raising additional capital at appropriate valuations to enable the company to meet sales, growth and market share objectives
  • •    Acting as the key company spokesperson with clients, investors, business partners and the press
  • •    Liaising with the technical team on critical issues related to the product roadmap and customer deliveries

• Candidate Experience:

  • •    The candidate should be entrepreneurial, a self-starter, able to inspire confidence in a range of stakeholders and partners, and have the skills to lead and develop a high performing science-led, innovative team with a high level of autonomy, creativity and independence
  • •    Be passionate about Xampla’s mission of addressing plastic pollution and the potential to build a truly category defining company
  • •    A real passion for sales: selling a vision and products to customers, partners, staff and investors
  • •    Fully understands the value and use of marketing and a consumer facing brand
  • •    Have a successful track record of leading and developing high performing technical teams, and can balance the need to protect them to ensure quality, and driving them to deliver products on time
  • •    Demonstrable ability to navigate an ever-changing market place, by rigorous analysis as well as creative drive
  • •    Startup experience, especially in scaling a team and raising funding for later stage startups
  • •    Living in or willing to relocate to Cambridge
  • •    Has been a CEO previously, or a General Manager with P&L, Engineering and Sales responsibility
  • •    Is flexible enough to deal with co-opetition with other sustainable material players to provide the best solution to customers
  • •    Is able to work comfortably at C level in companies
  • •    Understands and navigate their way through complex FMCG manufacturing supply chains
  • •    Has scaled technology from lab, through pilot plant to high volume manufacturing
  • •    Will get their hands dirty to solve the short term problems that startups face
  • •    Ideally, they will also have good understanding of materials, conversion of materials, and process engineering
  • •    Ideally, they will also have good understanding of materials, conversion of materials, and process engineering

• Package

  • •    Salary and options commensurate with the role
  • •    Generous holiday package
  • •    Flexible working options

If it sounds like you're a perfect fit for us, please send your CV here and we'll be in touch.