Chief Production Officer to our Factory in Tartu 🏭

Salary Competitive

We welcome a new C-level member in our Leadership team:

Our executive leadership team is missing a piece 🧩 - and that is very important piece as you will be in charge of the strategy of our entire production of windows and doors 🪟 🚪 reporting directly to our CEO Janar - located in Estonia 🇪🇪 

We don't care where you live - but you need to be at least 30% of your time at our Factory in Tartu, Estonia. How we make that work - let's talk about that 👊

Klar is a pure D2C Brand! No "middle men" and no physical shops - we sell directly to consumer. This makes us very unique as we are specialized in selling through E-commerce channels. We believe in highly vertical biz model success! 


Our ambition is to grow 100% year-on-year and we need a strong leader who can make that happen from the production side. We have already achieved remarkable results and we need you 🫵 to help us to move to the next level 🚀 You can look forward to sparring with C-levels cross-departments - and we promise to be nice and support you any possible way 💙 🙏 The management team consists of CEO, CFO, CMO, CTO, COO and CPCO (and missing a CPO). We are all specialists within our field, with long track record of leadership with many years of combined experience from customer service, design agencies, tech startups, people & culture, established corporations, and more. Safe to say, we're a little different than the common team setup in our industry and we think it's an advantage.


About the role as Chief Production Officer 👩‍🏭 🛠 :

The CPO has the responsible for global manufacturing processes of our company and ensures support of growth and quality of goods.

  • Highly competent CPO with solid track record!

  • Has experience in change management and made a production from zero to hero at least once before.

  • It is a great advantage if you have experience and a track record from the W&D industry or other timber processing companies. (Track record meaning at least 50 mill. biz done and it contains solid growth rate at least 25% YoY)

  • Building structure and building culture.

  • Superb understanding of production procedures.

  • Innovation implementation.

  • Industry 4.0 experience and undestanding - no manual data entry anywhere.

  • Excellent communication skills. (English on fluent level).

  • Strong in Project Management, trouble-shooting and decision making.

  • Very good knowledge of COGS (Cost of Good Sold) relation with APP.

  • Asset management.

  • Has a strategy mindset and skillset.


What are your responsibilities as CPO:  

  • Align goals and objectives with other C- level colleagues to ensure Growth Story together with the WoW effect of the product.

  • Implementing OKR principles - and follow up on them.

  • Implementing OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) and RFT (Right First Time) principles.

  • Analyse and Estimate the production costs (Fix and Variables).

  • Organize the workflow.

  • Administer and evaluate the performance of production personnel in collaboration with Team Leaders and future Factory Manager.

  • Maintenance work principles and purchase of equipment (Able to deliver detail ROI calculation fxs).

  • Ensure outputs meet the required quality standards.

  • Ensure safety and health policy.


We offer:👏🏻

  • Part of an extremely passionated leadership team who always got each others back 

  • 28 days of vacation 😎 🏝

  • 1 Care Day each quarter - a day JUST for you where you can do whatever you would like to 💙 

  • Lunch - partly paid for by Klar 🌮

  • Flexibility (in terms of working hours, work from home days and vacation) 📅

  • An informal and positive workspace that likes to joke around 🤪

  • A scale-up environment: Not a start-up with no means, nor a corporate monster that doesn’t care 🚀

  • Unforgettable team events and company parties twice a year (all Klar heroes together 🦸🏼🥂🦸‍♂️ )


When are you "Klar"?

Preferably starting date would be 1st of February 2023 and no later than 1st of March/april 2023


More about Klar:

We are the fastest-growing European D2C business for windows and doors. Our products are affordable because we sell directly to our customers without intermediaries. We have an Estonian founder and CEO however, much of the administration is in Denmark, which is also currently our biggest market. Our production facilities are in Estonia, where all our wonderful wood comes from. We have been growing by +100% for the last three years. That means you will be part of a growing success – and are only just getting started! ☄️.

Send us a resumé and something that convinces us you're the one for the job (you decide what you think that could be) 👌.


We will conduct ongoing interviews.


Read more about Klar: https://klar.rocks/

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Break a leg! Seriously, we got you covered in our company healthcare plan.

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Working at
Klar

Everyone should live well. Klar is the first European startup that’s making do-it-yourself home improvement accessible and affordable to anyone. ⭐ We have 1 brand in 5 countries - Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK & Estonia. During the last few years, we have used technology to revolutionise an outdated industry and our aim is to continue to do so with you on board. 🚀 We don’t want things to be more complicated than they have to. We like straight talk and improving the homes of everyone is serious business for us – so why idle on formalities? We want everyone to live well – that means we need to get in touch with a lot of people. Of course, that doesn’t happen all at once, it happens one step at a time. Our goal is that this step is twice as big every year compared to the last. That is, our goal for the company is to grow at least 100%, every year. If that’s the kind of ambition that inspires you, then jump aboard - read more about us here: https://klarhome.career.emply.com/ 💯

Read more about Klar

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