Haruka YamamotoChief Operating Officer

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Haruka Yamamoto

Turning enterprise ambition into dependable execution.

I help organisations deliver on the promises they make to customers.

Open to
  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations
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Elevation · Chief Operating Officer

Specification

The scale of the work.

Ref.MeasureValueNote
S-01On-time delivery97.6%Up from 81% across the network
S-02Cost removed₹1,150 CrWithout reducing service quality
S-03Sites run64Plants, warehouses and service centres
S-04Safety incidents−48%Over three operating years

Modules of expertise

The load-bearing capabilities.

  • MOD-01Operating model design
  • MOD-02Service delivery
  • MOD-03Supply chain resilience
  • MOD-04Performance improvement

Career elevation

Built in stages.

  1. Stage 04 · 2020 — Present

    Chief Operating Officer

    Aldermoor Group

    Leading enterprise operating performance, delivery reliability and capacity decisions.

  2. Stage 03 · 2016 — 2020

    Vice President, Operations

    Fairhaven Holdings

    Managed operating teams through process redesign and service improvement.

  3. Stage 02 · 2012 — 2017

    Vice President, Supply Chain

    Harrow & Vale Industries

    Redesigned a fragmented supply network into three regional hubs, improving service and resilience at once.

  4. Stage 01 · 2006 — 2012

    Plant Director

    Calder Logistics

    Ran the group's largest site and learned that operating discipline begins with the people closest to the work.

Detail drawings

Where the decisions were made.

01Detail

Operating model redesign

An organisation had grown through local improvisation, leaving hand-offs between commercial and delivery teams unclear. I mapped the end-to-end workflow with team leaders, assigned ownership at the points where work crossed functions and established a shared escalation routine. The redesign made service commitments and capacity decisions part of the same conversation.

02Detail

Delivery reliability

Delivery teams were responding to recurring exceptions as if each were new. We separated demand variation from avoidable process failure, reviewed the causes with frontline colleagues and gave recurring issues a named owner. The operating review shifted from reporting yesterday's misses to removing the conditions that produced them.

03Detail

Productivity and quality

A productivity programme risked moving costs from one function to another without improving the customer outcome. I introduced end-to-end measures alongside local targets and tested changes in a contained operating unit before wider adoption. Quality, workload and service reliability remained visible throughout the decision.

Board record

Governance structures served.

  • Harrow & Vale Industries

    Independent Director

    Operations & Safety (Chair) · Risk

    2023 — Present

  • The Manufacturing Skills Council

    Advisory Board Member

    Workforce Development

    2020 — Present

Peer review

Notes from those who appoint.

Turns ambition into an operating system people can actually run.
Lars EriksenChief Executive, Harrow & Vale Industries
Safety, service and cost improved together. I had not seen that before.
Nandini RaoChair, Operations & Safety Committee

Working notes

Essays and perspectives.

An invitation

Let's draw up what comes next.

For board, advisory and leadership conversations where operating model design matters.

Open to
  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations

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