Min Xu
Portrait of Min Xu

Welcome

Min Xu

Chief Operating Officer · China · Global perspective

Turning enterprise ambition into dependable execution.

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

Happy to discuss
  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations

A personal note

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.

With warm regards,Min

Subjects I care about

The conversations I am always glad to have.

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

97.6%

On-time delivery

₹1,150 Cr

Cost removed

64

Sites run

−48%

Safety incidents

Stories from the work

Each began with a difficult question.

01Operating 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.

02Delivery 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.

03Productivity 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.

Kind words

From people I have worked beside.

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

Along the way

Where I have led

  • Chief Operating OfficerAldermoor Group · 2020 — Present
  • Vice President, OperationsFairhaven Holdings · 2016 — 2020
  • Vice President, Supply ChainHarrow & Vale Industries · 2012 — 2017
  • Plant DirectorCalder Logistics · 2006 — 2012

Around the table

Boards I serve

  • Harrow & Vale IndustriesIndependent Director · 2023 — Present
  • The Manufacturing Skills CouncilAdvisory Board Member · 2020 — Present

Conversations

Thoughts I would love to discuss with you.

An invitation

You are warmly invited to a conversation.

Over coffee or across a boardroom table — Min welcomes thoughtful conversations about leadership, boards and what comes next.

Open to
  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations

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