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 solid 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
Strong 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 ****, 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 ****.
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 Valuable 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