Managing Director

OPS delivers enterprise-grade ERP, automation, and sovereign technology solutions for ambitious businesses that need to move fast without sacrificing quality. From startups to large-scale global operations, we provide the expertise clients need, when they need it, without the overhead of traditional consulting firms.

Our team specialises in Odoo ERP, hyper‑automation, systems integration, and operational transformation, helping organisations build scalable, efficient, and fully controlled technology ecosystems.

At OPS, we value agility, transparency, and excellence without ego. We move quickly, solve real problems and focus on delivering measurable impact for every client we work with.

Outpace Professional Services (OPS) is building a multi‑practice professional services platform across business systems, legal and corporate services, advisory, and future service areas. We are looking for a Managing Director to become the senior operating leader responsible for scaling OPS from a founder‑led services company into a disciplined, multi‑practice professional services firm. This person will build the management system, leadership cadence, commercial discipline, delivery governance, and acquisition‑readiness required to support ambitious growth.

The Managing Director will own the operating layer between executive strategy and day‑to‑day practice execution. They will ensure each practice has clear leadership, P&L accountability, delivery standards, growth targets, KPI visibility, and escalation discipline.

This is a senior, hands‑on operating role for someone who has scaled professional services, consulting, systems integration, advisory, or multi‑practice services organizations before.

OPS currently works across several professional services areas, including:

• Business Systems: ERP/Odoo, Salesforce, Notion, AI workflow automation, systems integration, operational reporting, and adjacent business‑platform services.
• Legal & Corporate Services: business law, corporate structuring, compliance, governance support, and related corporate‑service offerings.
• Advisory: PMO, operational advisory, transformation support, implementation oversight, and executive/project governance.
• Additional practice areas may be added organically or through acquisitions.

Preferred location is Dubai, aligned with the future executive center of gravity for the Outpace platform. OPS will also consider exceptional candidates based in the US or Europe, provided they have strong overlap with North American clients, acquisition targets, vendors, and team operating hours.

Travel is expected for client, vendor, acquisition, leadership, and integration needs across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

The Managing Director will report to Executive Leadership.

Direct reports will include practice leaders or vertical managers across current and future practice areas.

This role will work closely with sales leadership, delivery leadership, finance/admin, acquisition and integration stakeholders, and internal operating‑system owners.

• Building a repeatable multi‑practice operating model that can scale organically and absorb acquired practices cleanly.
• Creating a clear executive management layer between company strategy and day‑to‑day practice execution.
• Driving portfolio‑level performance across revenue, margin, delivery quality, client outcomes, and leadership accountability.
• Ensuring each practice has clear ownership, scorecards, operating cadence, growth plans, staffing visibility, and escalation discipline.
• Helping founders and senior commercial leaders spend more time on strategic relationships, capital allocation, major clients, vendor/channel partnerships, and acquisition opportunities.

Own portfolio‑level performance across current and future practices. Ensure each practice has revenue targets, margin targets, accountable owners, capacity plans, and weekly performance visibility.

Translate the company’s growth strategy and acquisition roadmap into practical operating plans, practice scorecards, integration requirements, hiring plans, and execution milestones.

Help each practice mature from founder‑led execution into a scalable professional services practice with repeatable offers, delivery standards, commercial playbooks, and client success routines.

Prepare OPS to integrate new practices, founders, teams, clients, systems, financial controls, and reporting standards as the company grows through acquisition.