Job Description
The client is seeking a qualified and passionate candidate to fill the role of VP of Operations in their quickly growing scale-up enterprise.
Responsibilities
The role will consist of “making the trains run on time” through managing harvest collection, supply chain, warehousing, and route to market. The right candidate will be target oriented, and bring a true operational and enterprise building mind-set, as the company’s systems and routines get built. This includes ownership of systems roadmaps and designs, process management, customer experience, and implementation management.
Requirements: Qualification and Skill
10+ years in FMCG, route-to-market, or consumer goods operations management.
Candidates will preferably have experience in logistics & route to market in rural Kenya & Nairobi
Local Kenyan candidates preferred
Entrepreneurs; experience in growing start-up business
Proven track record of leading in a growth-target based environment
Proven, quick, project management skills
Process-focused with strong analytical and system setting skills
Great communicator
Comfortable in a tech-based environment
Extremely collaborative, and flexible, in a highly flexible and solution based environment
Has gotten big things done in an adverse environment
Willing to make sacrifices to assure the company lives up to its promise of rebuilding the way African’s urban markets work.
10+ years of management experience
Degree in business, engineering, logistics, or other relevant fields
Having overseen teams of 200+ in the past

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