Global Vice President, Product & Business Operations

Build the operating engine behind Movora’s next chapter

This is not a role for someone who simply wants to maintain what is already in place
. It is an opportunity for an experienced builder to bring together Product Management, R&D, Clinical Evaluation, Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain, and Quality into one connected, high-performing global organization.

Movora has grown through an entrepreneurial, multi-brand scale-up structure. That entrepreneurial edge remains one of our greatest strengths. It has also created an exciting opportunity to build a shared operating model that connects strategy, innovation, operations, quality, and execution across the business.

About Movora

Movora is a global Med Tech company focused exclusively on veterinary orthopedics. We develop and manufacture implants, instruments, and solutions that help veterinary professionals improve mobility and quality of life for animals around the world. As we continue to grow, we are building the structure, leadership, and operating discipline needed to scale our impact globally.

The opportunity

As Global Vice President, Product & Business Operations, you will own the end-to-end idea-to-stock operating model, from product strategy and development through manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product availability. You will translate business priorities into executable plans, strengthen functional leadership, and create the systems and cadence that allow teams to operate as one organization.

You will be a hands-on executive and player-coach who can move comfortably between enterprise strategy and operational detail. You will develop strong Directors, clarify ownership and decision rights, establish practical processes and measures, and ensure the organization is structured to scale.

What you will lead
Organizational leadership and development

• Lead and develop senior leaders across Product Management, R&D, Clinical Evaluation, Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain, and Quality.
• Build a capable Director-level structure with clear ownership, reporting lines, accountability, and decision rights.
• Establish succession plans and leadership development priorities for critical functions.
• Create a culture of ownership, collaboration, transparency, and constructive accountability.
• Stay close enough to the work to understand issues, remove barriers, and make informed decisions.

Business operations and operating discipline

• Build an integrated global operating model across all responsible functions.
• Establish scalable SOPs, workflows, governance structures, and decision rights.
• Create consistent leadership, portfolio, supply, capacity, and performance reviews.
• Implement meaningful KPIs, dashboards, and accountability measures.
• Improve prioritization, resource allocation, issue escalation, and decision-making.
• Lead annual and long-range operational planning in partnership with the CEO, Finance, Commercial, and other leadership functions.
• Identify and communicate risks, constraints, and trade-offs early.

Functional leadership and accountability

You will set direction for the leaders of each function and hold ultimate accountability for outcomes across:

Product Management:
Maintain a prioritized, market-aligned portfolio and rationalize SKUs while preserving appropriate clinical coverage.
Research & Development:
Drive disciplined, stage-gated development, on-time and on-specification launches, and a sustainable innovation pipeline.
Clinical Evaluation:
Ensure robust clinical evidence, post-market follow-up, and meaningful input from surgeons, KOLs, and advisory boards.
Manufacturing:
Drive reliable performance, global production standards, and sound capacity, footprint, and investment decisions.
Global Supply Chain:
Deliver end-to-end supply performance across service, lead times, forecast accuracy, inventory health, and continuity.
Quality:
Build and lead a clearly defined global Quality function, embedding quality by design across development, manufacturing, and supply chain.
Requirements
What you bring

• Significant progressive leadership experience across product development, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality, with responsibility for multiple functions through Directors or other senior leaders.
• Proven success in a decentralized start-up, scale-up, private-equity-backed, roll-up, multi-brand, or similarly entrepreneurial organization.
• Experience building or transforming departments, organizational structures, SOPs, governance, KPIs, and operating cadences.
• A track record of leading global, geographically dispersed, or multi-site teams.
• Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives and cross-functional product launches from strategy through execution.
• Strong financial and business acumen across budgets, resource allocation, working capital, inventory, capital investment, and business cases.
• The executive presence and communication skills to build credibility with Boards, senior leaders, technical and manufacturing teams, clinicians, customers, suppliers, and external…