Chief Operating Officer (Bilingual in Korean)

Chief Operating Officer We're a New Jersey-based importer and distributor of flat-rolled steel. For more than 30 years, USP has served customers nationwide through longstanding international supplier relationships, disciplined logistics and inventory management, and responsive service. This role reporting to the President and working closely with the Chairman, the COO will own day-to-day operations, lead the department heads, materially reduce ownership's involvement in routine matters, and serve as a strategic partner in shaping and executing the company's direction. The COO will have authority over day-to-day decisions within approved strategy, budgets, policies, and delegated limits. Within that scope, department heads will report to and act on the COO's direction without seeking secondary approval, and the President and Chairman will support those decisions unless an agreed escalation threshold or material risk is involved. The COO must earn continuing confidence through sound judgment, clear communication, respect, collaboration, and consistent follow-through. Material strategy, capital, acquisition, investment, and ownership decisions remain with the President and Chairman.- Own day-to-day operations and serve as the primary decision point for cross-functional operating matters.- Lead, coach, and develop department heads; establish clear objectives, accountability, decision rights, and succession depth.- Translate ownership's priorities into operating plans, budgets, milestones, owners, and measurable targets; drive execution through completion.- Establish a disciplined management cadence, dashboards, financial and operating KPIs, internal controls, reporting, and follow-through.- Assess the organization, processes, systems, and management capabilities; prioritize improvements and move stalled initiatives to resolution.- Coordinate supply chain, customs and logistics, inventory, third-party processing, customer service, budgeting, costs, working capital, credit, risk, and compliance.- Contribute ideas, constructive challenge, and well-supported feasibility proposals to one-, three-, and five-year planning.- Partner with existing sales leadership to strengthen commercial processes, forecasting, management capability, talent development, and succession.- Support USP's M&A preparation and transaction work with ownership, counsel, investment banks, advisors, and prospective strategic acquirers.- Represent USP with suppliers, processors, customers, and partners while promoting timely decisions, collaboration, and continuous improvement.