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Operations Director
Industry: Motor Vehicle
Location: Nairobi
Salary: Ksh 400,000- 450,000 gross
Our client is a motor vehicle manufacturer and seller for the African Market. They seek to hire an Operations Director in the Automobile industry to lead in the production of Units.
Duties and responsibilities
- Create and review a production strategy
- Production planning for delivery units and increased production numbers
- Lead production operations to ensure end-to-end delivery of high quality vehicles
- Meet annual production targets
- Ensure cost-efficiency of on-going production and engineering works.
- Ensure production schedules meet vehicle orders through liasing with the sales team
- Lead a growing team of manufacturing, procurement and supply chain staff
- Performance review and feedback to members of your team
- Evaluate suppliers and ensure they deliver cost-effective vehicle parts and subassemblies
- Ensure the manufacturing department implements best practice lean manufacturing methods
- Identify & solve identify logistics requirements and other operational needs
- Final approval of all service agreements with suppliers for the procurement and delivery of parts, materials, tools, equipment and services.
- Provide timely support as needed to all critical organization departments
- Work flexibly in a highly cross-functional team environment
- Take up and own project timelines and results
Qualifications & Skills
- Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from a top university preferred
- Bachelor degree (minimum) in Operations/ Engineering, Business, Economics or similar
- years related experience in mechanical & production operations
- Previous interaction with purchasing supply and logistics preferably with an automotive company
- Exceptional leadership and clear sense of direction
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to build strong rapport with others
- Business/ Commercial acumen
- Integrity and a strong sense of ethics
- Exceptional persistence and endurance to overcome significant challenges
- Strong negotiation and persuasion skills
- Knowledge of motor vehicles, the market and associated industries
- Excellent problem solving ability in cross-functional and multi-cultural environment
- Exceptional analytical skills
- Effectively communicate timelines and project progress with both internal and external management teams
- Strong technical writing ability; able to read and interpret mechanical drawings
- Proficiency in Excel, Project, Power Point, Word, Access, Visio
- Entrepreneurial, ambitious, independent, attention to detail, structured thinker, goal-oriented, flexible and able to deal well with setbacks
- Comfortable with 10-30% travelling internationally
- Fluency in Kiswahili (the national language of Kenya)
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