CEO - Take a Patented Australian Construction Product Global

Talent X Pty Ltd; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

AP TUS Systems is seeking a CEO to lead the company as it expands internationally. The role requires deep experience scaling a business and delivering growth across new markets, with strong supply chain knowledge. You will partner with the founder to execute the vision while building robust systems and teams.

The successful candidate will drive national growth now and international expansion into UK, Europe and North America, aligning with the group’s strategy and performance targets.

Qualifications

• Track record of growing a business to multi‑million/hundred‑million revenues.
• Experience expanding into international markets and new geographies.
• Credibility in supply chain and import/export operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead international expansion strategy and execution.
• Build leadership structure and organisational capability.
• Deliver growth milestones and financial targets.

Skills

Large scale growth

National & international expansion

Supply chain import/export

Job description

CEO - Take a Patented Australian Construction Product Global

You’re an incredible CEO. You’ve got a track record of taking good companies and making them brilliant. Scaling businesses from $10M to $100M+, moving into international markets, building teams, improving operations and creating serious momentum.

People describe you as commercially sharp, tough, pragmatic and calm under pressure. You’re great with numbers, but equally great with people. You know how to build trust, rally teams behind a vision and keep people moving in the same direction.

You’re incredibly tenacious and once you commit to something, come hell or high water, you’ll make it happen.

You’re not a “corporate” style CEO - you have no ego, aren’t “too good” for anything and love venturing into uncharted territory and working hard to figure it out.

You genuinely love learning and growing. You’re curious, ask questions & observe. You don’t walk into businesses trying to tear everything apart just to “make your mark”. You take the time to understand how the business operates, what’s already working well, and why.

Then, you introduce the right ideas, systems and improvements to complement what’s already successful and help push the business to the next level.

You’re agile & can change your mind if someone else has a smarter way of doing something. You care far more about what works than being “right”.

This role is CEO for APTUS Systems (part of the M3S Group with a combined annual revenue of $50M+ ) - a business that has spent the last 10 years developing and commercialising a patented construction product that’s already been adopted across more than 100 major high-rise projects throughout Australia.

The product is first-to-market globally. The opportunity in front of the business is enormous.

They’re now preparing to expand into the UK, Europe and North America, with a goal of scaling from roughly $15M to $100M+ over the next decade.

They’ve been on the right trajectory, and all the pieces are in place, but now they need that “thrust” to get there. That’s where you come in.

To start, you’ll be holding a few key hats from above while you wrap your head around the roles, business & the strategy, and then over time, you’ll build the leadership structure beneath you - but in the early stages, you need to be comfortable operating both strategically and operationally.

You’ll start as essentially National GM, learning the business inside & out and researching the best path forward into international markets, and once ready to execute, they’ll hire a National GM beneath you and you’ll lead the international expansion.

Your goals & targets are ambitious:

• Grow the business nationally
• Expand aggressively into the UK, Europe & North America
• Scale from roughly $15M to $100M+ over the next decade
  

But all the pieces are there to pull it off:

• The product works.
• The market opportunity is huge.
• The strategy is already developed.
  

A huge part of this role is your relationship with Steven - the Founder.

Steven is entrepreneurial, highly intelligent, hands‑on and full of ideas. He’s built multiple businesses and wears a lot of hats across the group. He doesn’t need someone who comes in trying to overpower the vision or turn the place into a stiff corporate machine.

He needs a stabilising CEO.

Someone who can execute ideas, build structure around growth, create clarity & accountability, solve problems independently, keep things moving and bring him solutions instead of problems. Someone so competent that they provide genuine peace of mind.

Importantly, your role is not to determine the vision - the Founder sets the vision and you are the implementer of that vision.

Your role is to help execute it well while improving and evolving the systems, structures and frameworks around the business as it scales.

This is also a family business with multiple family members involved across the M3S Group which includes Novus Precast. Many staff have been there for decades. There’s a huge amount of loyalty, trust and long‑term thinking in how the business operates. It’s important that this person have high EQ & an ability to adapt to family dynamics.

They need someone who will embody their company values: curiosity, accountability & patience. They’re a down‑to‑earth but hard working & high performing company, with a hands‑on and inspiring Founder.

They need someone with:

• A track record of large scale growth
• Experience with national & international expansion
• Supply chain credibility - knowledge of the nuances of import & export

The role can be based anywhere on the East Coast (Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne), depending on the person.

If you’ve been looking for a chance to take something innovative, proven and ambitious onto the global stage - this is worth a serious conversation.