Operations Director
Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
Date Posted | February 19, 2023 |
Category |
Agriculture
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | KES |
Description
Victory Farms is a tilapia fish farm established in 2015. VF is located on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria and has distribution capacity throughout Kenya. The Company is rapidly expanding its farm operation, fish processing, and sales & marketing capabilities. By the end of 2017, VF is on track to be the largest aquaculture farm in East Africa. VF is employing world-class technologies, people and processes to build the leading tilapia farm globally.
RESPONSIBILITIES
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Manage our day-to-day supply chain (logistics centres + fleet) ensuring optimal inventory levels are kept within the system to keep supporting sales. VF currently operates 3 LCs in Kenya and a fleet of 11 trucks
- Setup and drive in country feed logistics to support our different farms in Kenya and the other geographies we expand into in East Africa
- Set KPIs and targets for departments, measure progress against these, identify and implement improvement plans focusing on service delivery and cost optimization
- Design the future of our supply chain to support our multi-market and multi-country approach. We plan on opening at least 2 new LCs including in a new country and expanding our fleet capacity to support our expansion plan
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
- Enforce best practices across our processes to ensure that spoilage is kept as close to 0%
- Manage a team of 6 QC analysts and associates and ensure they are adequately trained to execute their tasks
- Design and integrate quality control into our feed logistics process
INTERNAL CONSULTING
- Oversee our team of internal consultants as they support all parts of our business by implementing a variety of projects (for example: report automation, process redesign and formalisation, process
- Identify improvement projects company wide, scope them and drive the team to implementing them
REQUIREMENTS
QUALIFICATIONS and SKILLS:
- 7+ years of experience with a blend of Operations Management or Management consulting with a focus on Ops related projects.
- Capacity to understand complex supply chains and challenges, break them down into problems that can then be tackled and resolve them
- Attention to detail and thrive for constant operations improvement to ensure consistency in delivering value to other parts of the business, day in, day out
- Experience in managing multiple teams across different functions
- Ability to thrive working collaboratively with both senior colleagues and more junior ones, solving problems independently, and in a fast-paced environment
- A successful candidate will possess a strong work ethic, ability to work in teams, intellectual curiosity, and ability to structure and solve problems
- Master’s Degree in Operations Management, Supply chain, Logistics, or any relevant engineering degree
- MBA from top programme a +
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
- Status: Full time
- Benefits included
- Vacation Benefits
- Salary: Competitive, based on experience
Applying Instructions
Submit your CV, copies of relevant documents and Application to recruit@victoryfarmskenya.com and cc nchew@victoryfarmskenya.com
Use the title of the position as the subject of the email