DAVID GRIFFITHS · FRACTIONAL OPERATIONS · POP UP OPERATIONS
You were built to lead.
So why are you buried in operations?
That's what I'm here for. To take the operational weight so you can get back to leading.
What I do
You know what you want for your business. The vision is clear. But somewhere between the idea and the execution, you've become the bottleneck.
You want to empower your team but struggle to let go. You want to work on the business but keep getting pulled back in. The operational weight, the processes, the governance, the compliance, the things nobody else is picking up, has quietly become yours.It doesn't have to be.Through Pop Up Operations, I embed in growing businesses as a fractional Operations Leader: senior operational experience without the full-time cost.I take on the complexity that's slowing you down, including the things that feel like someone else's language. ISO frameworks, compliance, governance. I make them a natural part of how your business works, not a distraction from it.Short-term projects or ongoing support. Remote-first, but embedded in your team, not operating at a distance.
Keeping Amazon. Opening the door to the NHS.
Shelfspan · Compliance lead, retained since 2020
Shelfspan, UK-based shelving supplier, has supplied Amazon since 2019, and Amazon's compliance requirements have grown every year. Without an operations lead, that weight fell on the MD. I built and now run the ISO systems that keep Shelfspan compliant, so the account keeps growing and the MD gets his time back. Those same systems now let Shelfspan bid for public sector contracts, including the NHS.
Six weeks from workshop to launch. Then the real work began.
Big Love Charity · 6-week website redevelopment project
Big Love supports families and communities in Essex and Romania, across four programmes and supporters ranging from individual donors to schools and churches. Their new website had a lot to make clear, and a small team with little capacity to run the project. I ran it: an on-site workshop to agree goals, audiences and messaging, three tracked sprints, all the copy, the developer managed, and a privacy policy rewritten for GDPR. We're now continuing as an ongoing operations engagement.
c.15%
of turnover protected
2–3 days
a month back in the MD's diary
6 weeks
from workshop to launch
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