Location: Roo Bay Farm, Homabay
Victory Farms Limited is a leading aquaculture company and is looking for a Senior Operations Manager to oversee key operational and logistics aspects of our Farm Operations. In this role you will oversee the entire production process, ensuring efficiency and sustainability in our operations. As the Senior Operations Manager, you will be involved in strategic planning, team management, and adherence to regulatory standards to maximize on productivity and profitability.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Harvesting and Processing Operations
- Oversee day-to-day harvesting to processing operations, ensuring that processing operations are running efficiently and effectively. This includes managing the processing department staff and resources and ensuring that processing KPIs are met.
- Work closely with the Quality Control team to ensure all QMS processes and SOPs are followed, guaranteeing the highest standards of fish quality.
- 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 to ensure processing output meets the required standards.
- Set and monitor processing KPIs, and making necessary adjustments to ensure that these KPIs are met.
- Work with other departments such as Logistic Centers and Sales to ensure the processing operations are aligned with overall organizational goals and objectives.
Farm Logistics Planning and Management
- Oversee day-to-day Lake Logistics Operations, by working closely with the Lake Logistics Manager to ensure key KPIs are met,
- You will ensure the delivery, fabrication, inspection, and cleaning of nets.
- Work closely with the Lake Logistics Manager to develop and implement strategies to optimize the use of resources, minimize costs, and maximize efficiency.
- Collaborate with departments such as production to ensure logistics operations are aligned with the overall goals and objectives of the organization.
- Oversee the management of logistics resources such as boats and other equipment and be responsible for developing and implementing safety policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and monitoring key KPIs related to logistics operations.
- Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation to enhance logistics operations.
Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with other departments to ensure alignment on company goals and initiatives.
- Facilitate regular cross-departmental meetings to discuss operational updates, address challenges, and share best practices.
- Coordinate with the HR team to develop training programs and ensure staffing needs are met.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders including suppliers, customers, regulatory bodies, and industry partners.
- Communicate effectively with external stakeholders to ensure transparency and foster trust.
Skills and qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in relevant field such as Operations Management, Supply Chain, Logistics or a related discipline
- A Master’s degree in operations management, Supply chain, Logistics, or another related field will be an added advantage.
- 10+ years of experience in managing operations, logistics, and supply chain functions within an organization.
- Operations Management background in FMCG or Agriculture sector.
- Advanced proficiency in relevant software/tools for managing supply chains, logistics, and production planning (e.g., ERP systems, MS Project, supply chain management software).
- Capacity to understand complex operations and challenges, and break them down into problems that can then be tackled and resolved them.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop staff.
- Attention to detail and data-driven approach to constantly improve operations and ensure consistency in delivering value to other parts of the business, day in, day out.
- Experience in managing multiple teams across different functions.
- Proven experience in managing large-scale operational projects, with a strong understanding of project management methodologies.
- Ability to thrive working collaboratively with both senior colleagues and more junior ones, solving problems independently, and in a fast-paced environment.
Benefit:
- Visibility into the world’s fastest growing aquaculture company.
- Ideal for a candidate looking to dive into a mission-oriented Organization.
- The team is committed to the candidate’s success and will provide coaching, mentorship, and unique exposure to people and experiences that come from the most successful leaders in the entrepreneurial community and the social sector
About Victory Farms
Victory Farms is building the most sustainable and scalable protein business in Africa through an innovative aquaculture business platform. This vertically integrated protein platform owns and operates the inputs to fish production: feed, genetics and hatchery. The platform owns and operates farming sites, where tilapia is produced efficiently in the pristine waters of Lake Victoria (Kenya) and Lake Kivu (Rwanda). Victory then processes its fish and operates cold chain to move fresh and processed fish throughout Kenya and Rwanda. And lastly, Victory operates 80 retail locations in Kenya and 5 retail locations in Rwanda, where the fish are sold to tens of thousands of market ladies, who serve the mass market consumer.
Victory Farms aspires to be the world’s first truly regenerative aquaculture business. The Company uses two simple metrics to track its achievement toward this goal: carbon negative and biodiversity positive. The first major step to achieve carbon negative operations, the company has built the world’s first 100% geothermal feed mill. More programs are underway. To achieve biodiversity positive on land and water, the Company has a number of land-based and water-based restoration projects, which can demonstrate progress toward improved biodiversity on all the company’s earth footprints.
How to apply
Please send a 2 paged CV and cover letter expressing your interest and qualifications to recruit@victoryfarmskenya.com by 18th October, 2024. Indicate the Job Title as the email subject – Senior Operations Manager