Industrial & Manufacturing Executive Roles
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role across discrete and process manufacturers, industrial equipment OEMs, and supply-chain platforms.
Tier breakdown
2
Founder45
C-Suite165
VP7
Sr Director70
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Industrial & Manufacturing industry covers the broad industrial economy: discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles, durable goods), process manufacturers (chemicals, food, pulp and paper), industrial equipment OEMs, factory automation suppliers, and large supply-chain leaders.
Industrial is heavily onsite. Executive remote policy in this industry skews ~65% onsite, 25% hybrid, 10% remote. Plant General Managers, VP Manufacturing, and CSCO seats are anchored to specific manufacturing footprints. The classifier surfaces remote-friendly corporate seats (often CFO, CTO, CHRO) explicitly so candidates can filter accurately.
Functions over-represented in Industrial & Manufacturing: COO/Operations (multi-plant ownership), Supply Chain (CSCO, VP Procurement, Director Supply Chain), and CTO/Engineering (industrial engineering, automation, IIoT). Director-tier in this industry frequently runs a single plant or major sub-function — real exec scope despite the title prefix.
Sample Jobs (10 of 289)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Plant Controller The Bolton Group Drive Financial Excellence in Manufacturing Innovation. Requires 3-7 years of experience in general ledger and cost accounting within a manufacturing environment, Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business, proficiency with SAP or similar ERP systems. VP | Perry, Ohio Onsite |
| DACH Regional Sales Lead – Enterprise Manufacturing Tulip Interfaces, Inc. Lead sales efforts in the DACH region for Tulip's manufacturing solutions, focusing on digital transformation and operational efficiency. VP | Munich, Germany Hybrid |
| Chief of Staff Tacto The Chief of Staff at Tacto will be part of the leadership team, working directly with the CEO to drive strategic priorities, manage talent, and support organizational development. The role involves high expectations and offers significant freedom and responsibility. C-Suite | Munich, Germany Onsite |
| Global Director of Procurement and Sourcing System One Seeking a leader to shape and execute a global sourcing vision, strengthen supplier ecosystems, and ensure reliable delivery. Requires extensive leadership experience in procurement and supply chain management. Director | Tulsa, Oklahoma Onsite |
| Sec Head Rel - Corrosion Material-D2 - DMD Reliance Deploy reliability engineering and maintenance strategy for static equipment to ensure equipment availability and operational efficiency. VP | Bharuch Onsite |
| Director of Quality Assurance ... confidential search Senior leadership role overseeing quality functions across two manufacturing locations in the aerospace industry. Requires AS9100 certification knowledge and experience with DCMA. VP | Reno, Nevada Onsite |
| Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer ... leading international manufacturing organisation Lead a global transformation programme for a manufacturing organisation, focusing on technology, data, and process alignment. C-Suite | Budapest, Hungary Hybrid |
| Communications and Marketing Director ... leading UK manufacturing business Lead external communications, corporate communications, public and regulatory affairs, marketing communications, and sustainability for a UK manufacturing business. VP | London or Bridgend, Wales Unknown |
| Network Company President Teamshares Lead a small business in the industrial distribution industry, manage P&L, and transition to employee ownership. VP | Orlando, FL Onsite |
| Director, Customer Success AON3D The Director, Customer Success will manage the end-to-end post-sale customer experience, including success planning, software and printer support, renewals, training, and escalations. The role is strategic and hands-on, requiring coordination with sales and engineering teams. Director | Montréal, Quebec, Canada Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Industrial & Manufacturing industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with industrial-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified via NAICS codes (31–33 for manufacturing, 423–424 for industrial wholesalers), product-category signals, and a curated allowlist of OEMs and large industrial holding companies.
- Discrete vs. process tagging. The classifier separates discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles) from process manufacturers (chemicals, food, materials) — different exec-team composition and different remote-policy distributions. Sub-tags surface as filter facets.
- JD signals for boundary cases. GPT reads the job description for industrial-specific signals (plant references, lean/six-sigma vocabulary, BOM and SKU-count language, ERP system references like SAP or Oracle Manufacturing) when the company allowlist is ambiguous. Editorial review catches diversified industrials with non-manufacturing divisions. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from Industrial & Manufacturing: pure consumer-goods brands without owned manufacturing (these are Consumer Goods), industrial-software-only companies (Technology), and aerospace primes classified separately under Aerospace.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Industrial & Manufacturing is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Industrial + Supply Chain and your inbox shows industrial CSCO, VP Supply Chain, and Director Supply Chain seats only — not every Industrial role regardless of function, and not every Supply Chain role across the platform. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only Director-tier and above Industrial roles — capturing single-plant Plant GMs and Director Engineering seats — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only for pure C-suite Industrial seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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