Chief Operating Officer | Life Sciences Consulting

The COO will translate strategy into execution, ensuring PharmOut continues to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients while maintaining a highly engaged, high-performance and values-driven workforce.

You will provide leadership across our consulting, project delivery and corporate support functions, partnering closely with service line leaders to improve efficiency, profitability, capability development and customer experience.

This is a rare opportunity to join a respected founder-led business with a strong reputation, talented team and ambitious growth plans.

Key responsibilities

Work with the Managing Director and Executive Team to execute PharmOut's strategic plan

Identify opportunities for sustainable growth, operational improvement and organisational development

Drive accountability, performance and execution across all business units

Optimise utilisation, project delivery performance and profitability

Develop scalable systems, processes and governance structures that support growth

Monitor key business metrics and provide insight-driven recommendations

Foster a high-performance culture aligned with PharmOut's values

About you

Executive leadership experience as a COO, General Manager, Operations Director or equivalent

Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary professional services or consulting teams

Robust financial management and commercial decision-making capability

Experience building scalable operational systems and improving organisational performance

Outstanding stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Experience in pharmaceutical,



biotechnology, medical device, engineering, regulatory, healthcare or other regulated industries

Experience within project-based consulting businesses

About us

PharmOut is a leading international consultancy specialising in GMP compliance, validation, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, architecture, engineering, training and quality systems. Since 2006, we have helped pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and life science organisations navigate complex regulatory and operational challenges across Australia and around the world.

PharmOut is a rapidly growing international GMP, Validation and Engineering consultancy founded in 2006.

PharmOut has grown a strong reputation for offering leading GMP compliance, validation, regulatory, engineering and architectural consulting services to the pharmaceutical, veterinary or medical device manufacturers, as well as related hospital and pharmacy operations.

We aim to give you a competitive advantage by helping you design, build and operate manufacturing facilities that will fully comply with international Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations as issued by regulatory agencies such as the US FDA, EU EMA, CFDA and PIC/S member agencies such as the Australian TGA, New Zealand MedSafe, Singaporean HSA to list a few of the nearly 50 agencies.

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📌 Chief Operating Officer | Life Sciences Consulting (Melbourne)
🏢 PharmOut
📍 Melbourne