Operational clarity for founders navigating growth
I work with founders and leadership teams when growth starts to feel unwieldy.
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When decisions take longer, priorities blur, and everything feels urgent, I help bring calm, structure and momentum back into operations.
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I work as a fractional COO or senior operations partner, providing practical, hands-on support to help teams focus, align and execute without adding unnecessary process or noise.
How I help
I step in when the business is doing well, but the operating model hasn’t quite caught up.
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I embed quickly to understand how the business really works day to day. From there, I help bring clarity to what matters most, strip away unnecessary noise, and focus the team on execution.
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Together, we clarify what truly matters now, create simple structure around priorities, decisions and delivery and strengthen the systems, processes and rhythms that support scale
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A typical engagement might be a post-Series A business where the founder has become the bottleneck, or a manufacturing or product-led company scaling fast without the operational backbone to support it.
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I offer practical operations leadership, tailored to where your business is right now. The result is a business that runs more smoothly, with clearer ownership, faster decisions, and less pressure on founders.
Briony Philips​
​Ecosystem Strategist
“Jen built strong relationships founded on trust and openness quickly. She brought a calm, data-led, and clear approach at a challenging time characterised by a lot of change and uncertainty. She helped us focus on what mattered and make better decisions, faster."
Matt Butcher
CEO - Inductosense
"Jen made a massive impact on the company, uplifting production, creating and improving processes, introducing a number of new initiatives, promoting a positive culture and hiring excellent team members. She is also a great sounding board."
Patrick Magrath
Venture Catalyst
“Jen had a hugely positive impact on business operations. She is a strategic thinker, willing to challenge the status quo and effects positive change. She improved processes and efficienty which imporved margins significantly”
Working together
Flexible support focussed on growth and clarity
Fractional COO / Senior Operations Partner
Retained support for growing teams who need steady, experiened operational leadership as they scale.
Board-level or advisory support
Strategic input, structure and decision support at leadership or board level.​
Short-term interventions
Focused, time-bound support around growth, change, or an operational reset.
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Get in touch to discuss what would be most useful for your business.
About me
I’m Jen Rolls, a senior operations leader working with founder-led and growth-stage businesses as a fractional COO or senior operations partner.​ For over a decade, I’ve worked across multiple industries including technology, manufacturing, media, retail and regulated environments.
I’ve supported businesses at different stages of growth, from early scaling through to operational maturity, helping translate strategy into day-to-day execution. I’ve worked in environments with boards, investors and external scrutiny, as well as closely with small leadership teams.
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My background spans operations, people, quality, finance and delivery. I’m as comfortable working at board level as I am embedded with teams, untangling what’s really happening on the ground and turning big-picture plans into practical action.
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I’m known for being calm, pragmatic and commercially minded. I don’t add unnecessary process. I help teams build just enough structure to move forward with confidence.
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Get in touch
If you think I might be useful, I'd love to hear from you
Email: hello@jlradvisory.co.uk
Call: 07775 575312