Privately Owned Dry Bulk Shipping Operator | Glyfada, Athens
Reporting directly to the Founder.
Our client is a small, privately owned dry bulk shipping operator specialising in the commercial management and chartering of dry bulk vessels.
The business operates with a lean, highly commercial team and is entering its next phase of development.
Your Role:
This is a newly created role (no direct reports) working directly with the Founder to improve organisational effectiveness, accountability, performance and continuity.
The focus is on the organisation itself — its structure, people and performance.
What you will own:
• Assess organisational structure, roles, responsibilities and ways of working.
• Improve accountability, performance and management effectiveness.
• Identify capability gaps and key-person dependencies.
• Lead or support restructuring, difficult people decisions and critical hires.
• Strengthen succession and organisational continuity.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to the Founder on people and organisational matters.
Your Profile:
• Strong experience in HR Business Partnering, People, Organisational Effectiveness, OD or transformation.
• Proven experience personally implementing organisational change.
• Experience handling underperformance, restructuring and employee exits.
• Experience working directly with Founders, CEOs or senior business leaders.
• Comfortable operating without a large HR team or infrastructure.
• Strong judgement, communication and execution.
What this role is not:
• Payroll or HR administration.
• Primarily a recruitment position.
• A role focused on policies, procedures, or HR programmes for their own sake.
• A corporate HR leadership role where execution is delegated to a large team.
• An internal consulting position where recommendations are handed over to somebody else to implement.
