Build-Operate-Transfer · Executive Leadership · Romania
Interim Managing Director for your Romania delivery hub — built, run, then handed to your permanent local leader.
BMP steps in as interim MD to launch and govern your Romanian engineering office under your brand and P&L logic. When the operation is stable, we recruit, mentor, and transfer to the leader you keep. You get executive control from week one and a clean exit when you are ready.
Three Romania hubs stood up · Two subsidiaries run as Managing Director · Active Build–Operate–Transfer in flight
Delivery · Operations · Scaling · Governance · Leadership transfer
Services
One engagement. Three phases. Your operation, fully transferred.
We step in as interim Managing Director, build and stabilize your Romania office, then hire and onboard your permanent local leader. You get executive-grade operations from day one — and full ownership when you are ready.
Phase 1
Build
4–8 weeks
Legal entity and vendor setup, recruiting pipeline and first hires, onboarding playbook, operating baseline established.
Phase 2
Operate
3–18 months
Interim MD runs daily operations: delivery governance, KPI cadence, budget control, team growth, risk and escalation management.
Phase 3
Transfer
Structured handover
We recruit and mentor your permanent local leader. Structured handover playbook, knowledge transfer, and clean operational transition.
Included across all phases
- → Executive rhythm: KPIs, meeting cadence, decision discipline
- → Recruiting engine: scorecards, sourcing, structured interviews
- → Delivery governance: priorities, risks, escalation, stakeholder reporting
- → Budget and cost control: transparent reporting, vendor management
- → AI-assisted operations: faster recruiting, clearer reporting, lower overhead
- → Leadership transition: hire, mentor, and onboard your permanent MD
Flexible engagement
Already have a Romania team that needs stabilization? Start at Operate: governance, delivery rhythm, and leadership development — without a full Build phase.
How it works
From first call to running operation in weeks
Diagnose
Weeks 1–2
Site goals, target roles, cost model, compliance constraints, and execution risks. Output: go/no-go recommendation and launch plan.
Launch
Weeks 3–8
Entity setup, recruiting pipeline active, first hires onboarded, governance cadence live. Interim MD operational.
Scale, Stabilize, Transfer
Months 2–18
Predictable throughput, reporting cadence, team growth. When stable: recruit permanent local leader, structured handover, clean exit.
AI-assisted operating system
Recruiting acceleration
Role scorecards, sourcing drafts, screening summaries
Governance automation
KPI packs, meeting summaries, action and risk tracking
Documentation support
Templates for policies and processes (human reviewed)
We use AI to reduce overhead and increase clarity — decisions remain human-owned.
About
Built on 15+ years of delivery leadership in Romania
BMP is led by a Managing Director and shareholder with direct experience building and running engineering subsidiaries in Romania for German technology companies.
Track record
Managing Director, 2 subsidiaries
Full P&L responsibility for Romanian engineering subsidiaries of German parent companies, across multiple cities.
Office ramp-ups in 3 Romanian cities
Built engineering teams from zero in Timisoara, Cluj, and Iasi — recruiting, onboarding, and establishing delivery operations.
+5M EUR annual operation
Grew a 20-engineer subsidiary with repeat business from key accounts and consistent on-time delivery across OEM programs.
10 years at a global Tier-1 supplier
Cross-functional program leadership (SW, HW, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales) from acquisition through production launch.
AI-enabled operations
Currently leading AI integration into development workflows — applying the same tools to accelerate recruiting, governance, and reporting at BMP.
Active BOT delivery
Currently executing a Build-Operate-Transfer engagement expanding an engineering services company into mechanical engineering.
Domain expertise
Who this is for (ICP — lock ~90 days):
EU technology companies — especially German parents — that need EU engineering delivery capacity in quality-critical domains and do not yet have a trusted local Managing Director. Typical buyers: CEOs, COOs, and delivery directors opening or fixing a Romania (or West Romania) hub for embedded, automotive, safety-critical, or similarly governed software and systems work.
Who this is not for:
Staff-augmentation buyers, pure cost-arbitrage nearshore shopping, or companies that already have a strong local MD and only need recruiters. US generalist “Eastern Europe presence” leads are deprioritized until this wedge converts.
- German and other EU tech firms building a captive or captive-like Romania delivery hub
- Quality-critical and regulated work where governance, ASPICE / ISO-style discipline, and escalation control matter as much as headcount
- Scale-ups and mid-size engineering services firms that need predictable throughput without standing up a full local leadership stack first
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