Jun Zhang
Chief Operating Officer China · Global perspective
Turning enterprise ambition into dependable execution.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversationA point of view
Operations should make dependable delivery repeatable. I make ownership and constraints visible, listen to frontline evidence and improve the whole workflow rather than optimise one function at another's expense.
Decisions in context.
Operating model redesign
An organisation had grown through local improvisation, leaving hand-offs between commercial and delivery teams unclear.
Explore the work ↗Delivery reliability
Delivery teams were responding to recurring exceptions as if each were new.
Explore the work ↗Productivity and quality
A productivity programme risked moving costs from one function to another without improving the customer outcome.
Explore the work ↗The leadership record
Trusted with consequential decisions.
In the boardroom
- Harrow & Vale IndustriesIndependent Director · 2023 — Present
- The Manufacturing Skills CouncilAdvisory Board Member · 2020 — Present
Recognition
- Operations Leader of the YearThe Operations Excellence Awards · 2024
- Supply Chain Resilience AwardCapital & Governance Quarterly · 2022
In conversation
- “From 81% to 97% on-time without a single new plant”The Operations Excellence Journal · 2025
- “What boards should see in an operations review”The Boardroom Review · 2024
- “Episode 109 — Keeping the promise to customers”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Turns ambition into an operating system people can actually run.
An invitation
The most consequential work begins with a conversation.
For board, advisory and leadership conversations where operating model design matters.
- Board appointments
- Advisory roles
- Speaking invitations
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