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Trade Mastermind Limited

**About Trade Mastermind**

Trade Mastermind is one of the UK's leading business education and consulting companies for trades and construction business owners. Through coaching, training, events, marketing services, recruitment solutions, funding support and technology, we help ambitious business owners scale faster, increase profitability and build more valuable businesses. The group operates across multiple brands and serves business owners throughout the UK. With ambitious plans for continued growth, investment and expansion, we are seeking an exceptional operator to help build the next chapter of the company.

**Our Ambition**

To build the UK's leading business growth platform for trades, construction and service-based business owners.

Fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO) / Future CEO
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**Location** Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

**Package**

*   Compensation: £150,000-£200,000 per year (full-time equivalent, negotiable based on days per week)
*   Performance Bonus
*   Executive Benefits
*   EMI Share Options Available
*   Potential Future CEO Pathway

**Work Arrangement** Full-time, In person

**The Opportunity**

This is not a traditional COO role. This is an opportunity for a proven executive leader to help scale one of the UK's fastest-growing business education and consulting groups. We are seeking a commercially minded operator who has previously operated at executive level within a £20M+ organisation and has the ambition, capability and leadership credentials to potentially progress into a future CEO role.

The successful candidate will work directly alongside founder and entrepreneur Joseph Valente, taking responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the business whilst helping build the infrastructure, systems, leadership team and governance required for the next phase of growth.

This role is designed for someone who wants to build a company, not simply manage one.

**The Mission**

Your mission is simple: Build a business that can scale without the founder being involved in every operational decision. You will become the leader of the leadership team and ultimately the person responsible for ensuring the business executes at the highest possible level.

**Success in this role means:**

*   Leadership team fully accountable
*   KPIs measured and managed
*   Clear operating rhythm throughout the organisation
*   World-class customer experience
*   Strong financial discipline
*   Recruitment and development of exceptional talent
*   Operational excellence across all departments
*   Founder focused on vision, growth, acquisitions, partnerships and strategic direction

**Key Responsibilities**

**Leadership & Accountability**

*   Lead the Senior Leadership Team
*   Hold department heads accountable to targets, KPIs and objectives
*   Drive a high-performance culture throughout the organisation
*   Ensure company priorities are executed on time and to standard
*   Create alignment between all departments
*   Build leadership capability across the business

**Operational Excellence**

*   Design and implement scalable operating systems
*   Improve efficiency, productivity and accountability
*   Build governance, reporting and management frameworks
*   Create operational infrastructure capable of supporting significant growth
*   Drive continuous improvement across the organisation

**Growth & Scaling**

*   Help scale the business towards £100M+ revenue
*   Support future acquisitions and integrations
*   Build systems capable of supporting rapid expansion
*   Prepare the business for institutional investment and future enterprise value creation

**Team Building**

*   Recruit and develop senior leaders
*   Build succession plans across key functions
*   Develop managers into high-performing leaders
*   Strengthen culture, standards and accountability throughout the business

**Financial Performance**

*   Work closely with the CFO and executive team
*   Improve operational profitability
*   Increase efficiency and EBITDA
*   Drive performance through data, reporting and accountability
*   Ensure resources are allocated effectively to support growth

**Essential Experience**

Applicants must be able to demonstrate:

*   Previous COO, CEO, Managing Director or Divisional Director experience
*   Executive leadership experience within a business generating a minimum of £20 million annual revenue
*   Full P&L responsibility
*   Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance and Customer Success
*   Experience managing and developing senior leadership teams
*   Proven experience scaling businesses through significant periods of growth
*   Strong commercial and financial acumen
*   Experience implementing KPI, reporting and accountability frameworks
*   Ability to operate as the second-in-command within a founder-led organisation

**Highly Desirable**

*   Experience leading a £50M+ business
*   Private Equity-backed business experience
*   Experience preparing businesses for investment, acquisition or exit
*   Experience within education, consulting, professional services, construction, home improvement or service-based industries
*   Acquisition and integration experience
*   Experience helping founders transition from operator to visionary leadership roles

**Characteristics Required**

*   High energy
*   Exceptional leadership capability
*   Commercially minded
*   Strong decision-maker
*   Results driven
*   Highly organised
*   Relentless executor
*   High standards
*   Comfortable with accountability
*   Comfortable holding others accountable
*   Ambitious and growth-oriented
*   Naturally respected by senior leaders

**What Success Looks Like**

**Within 12 Months**

*   Leadership team operating at a significantly higher level
*   KPI management embedded throughout the organisation
*   Strong management and accountability structures in place
*   Improved operational efficiency and profitability
*   Enhanced customer experience and retention
*   Founder spending significantly less time in day-to-day operations

**Within 3–5 Years**

*   Potential progression into Group CEO role
*   Responsibility for leading a significantly larger organisation
*   Participation in substantial enterprise value creation
*   Opportunity to help build one of the UK's most influential business growth companies

**Important**

This role is not suitable for candidates whose largest leadership experience has been within a small business environment. Applicants should have operated at executive level within a business generating a minimum of £20 million annual revenue and be comfortable leading large teams through periods of rapid growth. We are looking for a proven business leader, not simply an operations manager.

**Why Join?**

Most COO roles involve maintaining a business. This role involves helping build one. You will work directly with a founder who has ambitious plans for growth, expansion and long-term enterprise value creation, whilst being given the autonomy and responsibility to make a genuine impact. If you are an ambitious operator who wants the opportunity to scale a high-growth company, lead an executive team and potentially progress into a CEO position, we would like to hear from you.

Fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Chief Operating Officer

Operational Excellence

Trade Mastermind and Valente Consulting are dedicated to helping business owners achieve sustainable growth through education, coaching, marketing, and business development support.

Trade Mastermind was founded with a simple belief: great tradespeople can become great business owners. We help plumbing, electrical, construction, and home improvement businesses develop the skills, systems, and strategies needed to build profitable, scalable companies.

Through Valente Consulting, we extend that expertise to businesses across a wide range of industries, providing practical guidance, consultancy, marketing solutions, and growth strategies that help organisations improve performance and achieve their goals.

Our team is passionate about making a real difference to the businesses we support. By combining education, innovation, and proven business principles, we help ambitious business owners overcome challenges, create opportunities, and build long-term success.

Our mission is to empower business owners with the knowledge, tools, and support they need to grow thriving businesses and reach their full potential.

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**Fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO) / Future CEO**  
Trade Mastermind Group

**Location**  
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

**Package**  
Compensation will be agreed based on days per week, using a full-time equivalent salary range of £150,000-£200,000.

Performance Bonus  
Executive Benefits  
EMI Share Options Available  
Potential Future CEO Pathway

**The Opportunity**

This is not a traditional COO role.

This is an opportunity for a proven executive leader to help scale one of the UK’s fastest-growing business education and consulting groups.

We are seeking a commercially minded operator who has previously operated at executive level within a £20M+ organisation and has the ambition, capability and leadership credentials to potentially progress into a future CEO role.

The successful candidate will work directly alongside founder and entrepreneur Joseph Valente, taking responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the business whilst helping build the infrastructure, systems, leadership team and governance required for the next phase of growth.

Our ambition is simple:  
To build the UK’s leading business growth platform for trades, construction and service-based business owners.

This role is designed for someone who wants to build a company, not simply manage one.

**About Trade Mastermind**

Trade Mastermind is one of the UK’s leading business education and consulting companies for trades and construction business owners.

Through coaching, training, events, marketing services, recruitment solutions, funding support and technology, we help ambitious business owners scale faster, increase profitability and build more valuable businesses.

The group operates across multiple brands and serves business owners throughout the UK.

With ambitious plans for continued growth, investment and expansion, we are seeking an exceptional operator to help build the next chapter of the company.

**The Mission**

Your mission is simple:  
Build a business that can scale without the founder being involved in every operational decision.

You will become the leader of the leadership team and ultimately the person responsible for ensuring the business executes at the highest possible level.

**Success in this role means:**

- Leadership team fully accountable
- KPIs measured and managed
- Clear operating rhythm throughout the organisation
- World-class customer experience
- Strong financial discipline
- Recruitment and development of exceptional talent
- Operational excellence across all departments
- Founder focused on vision, growth, acquisitions, partnerships and strategic direction

Key Responsibilities

**Leadership & Accountability**

- Lead the Senior Leadership Team
- Hold department heads accountable to targets, KPIs and objectives
- Drive a high-performance culture throughout the organisation
- Ensure company priorities are executed on time and to standard
- Create alignment between all departments
- Build leadership capability across the business

**Operational Excellence**

- Design and implement scalable operating systems
- Improve efficiency, productivity and accountability
- Build governance, reporting and management frameworks
- Create operational infrastructure capable of supporting significant growth
- Drive continuous improvement across the organisation

**Growth & Scaling**

- Help scale the business towards £100M+ revenue
- Support future acquisitions and integrations
- Build systems capable of supporting rapid expansion
- Prepare the business for institutional investment and future enterprise value creation

**Team Building**

- Recruit and develop senior leaders
- Build succession plans across key functions
- Develop managers into high-performing leaders
- Strengthen culture, standards and accountability throughout the business

**Financial Performance**

- Work closely with the CFO and executive team
- Improve operational profitability
- Increase efficiency and EBITDA
- Drive performance through data, reporting and accountability
- Ensure resources are allocated effectively to support growth

**Essential Experience**

Applicants must be able to demonstrate:

- Previous COO, CEO, Managing Director or Divisional Director experience
- Executive leadership experience within a business generating a minimum of £20 million annual revenue
- Full P&L responsibility
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance and Customer Success
- Experience managing and developing senior leadership teams
- Proven experience scaling businesses through significant periods of growth
- Strong commercial and financial acumen
- Experience implementing KPI, reporting and accountability frameworks
- Ability to operate as the second-in-command within a founder-led organisation

**Highly Desirable**

- Experience leading a £50M+ business
- Private Equity-backed business experience
- Experience preparing businesses for investment, acquisition or exit
- Experience within education, consulting, professional services, construction, home improvement or service-based industries
- Acquisition and integration experience
- Experience helping founders transition from operator to visionary leadership roles

**Characteristics Required**

- High energy
- Exceptional leadership capability
- Commercially minded
- Strong decision-maker
- Results driven
- Highly organised
- Relentless executor
- High standards
- Comfortable with accountability
- Comfortable holding others accountable
- Ambitious and growth-oriented
- Naturally respected by senior leaders

What Success Looks Like

**Within 12 Months**

- Leadership team operating at a significantly higher level
- KPI management embedded throughout the organisation
- Strong management and accountability structures in place
- Improved operational efficiency and profitability
- Enhanced customer experience and retention
- Founder spending significantly less time in day-to-day operations

**Within 3–5 Years**

- Potential progression into Group CEO role
- Responsibility for leading a significantly larger organisation
- Participation in substantial enterprise value creation
- Opportunity to help build one of the UK’s most influential business growth companies

**Important**

This role is not suitable for candidates whose largest leadership experience has been within a small business environment.

Applicants should have operated at executive level within a business generating a minimum of £20 million annual revenue and be comfortable leading large teams through periods of rapid growth.

We are looking for a proven business leader, not simply an operations manager.

**Why Join?**

Most COO roles involve maintaining a business.  
This role involves helping build one.

You will work directly with a founder who has ambitious plans for growth, expansion and long-term enterprise value creation, whilst being given the autonomy and responsibility to make a genuine impact.

If you are an ambitious operator who wants the opportunity to scale a high-growth company, lead an executive team and potentially progress into a CEO position, we would like to hear from you.

**How to Apply**

Please submit your CV together with a covering letter outlining:

- The largest business you have helped lead
- The revenue size of that organisation
- The number of people you managed
- The growth journey you helped deliver
- Examples of operational improvements you implemented
- Why you believe you are the right person to help scale Trade Mastermind into its next chapter

Applications without this information may not be considered.

Pay: £150,000.00-£200,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Peterborough

Seeking a Fractional COO to scale a business education and consulting company, with potential progression to CEO.

Trade Mastermind Limited

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