Operations Manager (Agri) – Homa Bay, Kenya

Summit Recruitment and Search Africa is a leading Recruitment and Executive Search agency head quartered in Kenya providing outstanding talent to a wide range of companies and NGO’s in various business sectors across Africa.

Our client, a leading Agri company is seeking to hire an to be based in Homabay, Kenya. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing Farm Operations, ensuring departments run effectively and coordinating farm logistics. The ideal candidate must have a Relevant bachelor’s degree, management experience and a minimum of 10+ years of experience as an operations manager with relevant logistics coordination experience.

Key Requirements:

  • Oversee our day-to-day processing operations, ensuring that processing operations are running efficiently and effectively.
  • Develop and implement strategies to improve operational efficiency and productivity by developing new processes or procedures, identifying, and resolving operational issues, and implementing quality control measures.
  • Work together with the Quality Control team to ensure all QMS processes and SOPs are tracked.
  • Set and monitor processing KPIs and make necessary adjustments to ensure that these KPIs are met or exceeded.
  • Collaborate with other departments such as production to ensure logistics operations are aligned with the overall goals and objectives of the organization.
  • Develop and implement strategies to optimize warehouse operations, improve inventory management, and minimize costs.
  • Oversee management of resources such as staff, equipment, boats and items in the farm and warehouse.

Qualifications:

  • Relevant bachelor’s degree.
  • Must have management experience.
  • Must have a minimum of 10+ years of experience as an operations manager with relevant logistics coordination experience.
  • Must have Capacity to understand complex operations and challenges, break them down into problems that can then be tackled and resolve them.

Please click on the tab below to apply:

Salary: Monthly Gross Salary of Ksh. 200,000 (Approx. 1464 USD)
Location: Homa Bay, Kenya
Career Level: Mid Level
Job Type: Full Time
Deadline for applications: 30/05/2023