Manager - Strategy & Operations - Manufacturing Firm

Strategy & Operations Manager

Responsible for overseeing production processes, managing resources, ensuring quality, implementing efficiency improvements, leading teams, maintaining safety standards, and coordinating with other departments for seamless operations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Structure complex and ambiguous operational/business issues and develop compelling, insightful recommendations.

- Identify trends in the marketplace and monitor competitive landscape to determine impact to the organization's roadmap and uncover opportunities for innovation and growth.

- Track progress toward organizational goals; establish scalable systems to monitor KPIs.

- Drive the annual and quarterly go-to-market planning processes that achieve the organization's growth targets; build detailed business cases to facilitate decision-making.

- Craft key presentation materials (memos, decks), including quarterly business reviews and executive meetings. Use storytelling skills to persuasively communicate recommendations.

- Design, communicate, and implement an operational plan for completing a project; monitor progress and performance against the project plan; resolve operational problems, minimize delays.

- Help drive planning and strategy initiatives for areas such as Marketing, GTM, and international expansion.

- Identify, develop, and gather necessary resources to complete projects, and estimate the costs, resources, and time required to complete it.

- Conduct project meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the projects within and beyond the project team.

Qualification And Experience:

1. BE & MBA with 2-4 years' experience in a Manufacturing Organisation and demonstrated success in operations, growth, or strategy role for a high-growth business.

2. Comfortable working in a fast-paced and high-ambiguity environment that values self-direction, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, rapid learning, and "wearing multiple hats". Excellent organizational, time-management, and prioritization skills.

3. Strong analytical toolkit and ability to break complex and ambiguous problems into smaller, actionable solution steps and to define an answer using practical assumptions and defensible logic.

4. Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

5. Demonstrated ability to learn new things quickly, work independently, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

6. Proven success in a project coordination role and a good understanding of business operations, marketing, and strategy.

7. Have a passion for working collaboratively with a cross-functional, low-ego team and embrace a "get stuff done" culture where no job is too big or too small.