A well-known and well-reputed Company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is looking for an experienced, skilled, competent, mature, qualified, creative, and intelligent candidate with significant knowledge and relevant working experience for the position of “Operations Manager”.
Company Name |
Opontia |
Qualification | Bachelors Degree | Masters Degree |
Experience | 5 – 6 years of Relevant Experience Required |
Monthly Salary | 20,000 AED – 25,000 AED |
Employment Type | Full Time | Permanent |
Company Size | 50-100 Employees |
Benefits | Medical Insurance |
Location | Dubai |
About Opontia
Opontia is on a mission to build the next-generation e-commerce group in Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa by acquiring and scaling high performing e-commerce businesses selling on marketplaces, own websites and social commerce. We are a team of e-commerce experts who are passionate about building a portfolio of best-in-class retail brands.
The Role
Opontia is looking for a manager who is passionate about supply chain, logistics, e-commerce and startups to be our Operations Excellence Manager in our Dubai office. In this role your responsibility is to design, manage, the setup for these five areas (1) supply chain (2) e-storage (3) e-fulfilment (4) customer service and (5) operational integration for Opontia’s brand portfolio in multiple countries.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct operational due diligence of potential e-commerce brands to be acquired (complexity, costs, etc.)
- Lead and constantly optimise the operational integration of the newly acquired brand to our operational setup with the target to avoid any interruption of sales and decrease of customer experience.
- Build and execute processes to improve efficiency, productivity and service levels and ensuring operational excellence (higher fulfilment rate, within TAT fulfilment, low return rate, etc.) with optimised costs.
- Communicate and collaborate with other team members and manage certain projects which are cross functional with other departments outside of fulfilment organisation.
- Proactively identify and solve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
- Establishing an operations control reporting and dashboard to provide real-time trends and insights.
- Setting up and managing SOPs and SLAs with external partners designed for selling on online marketplaces, own websites and social commerce.
- Developing cost predictive models and reducing the delta between projected and actual costs.
- Determine, track and drive most important cost KPIs to achieve company’s objective of performance and cost. Identifying improvement opportunities with an objective to reduce cost per unit and leading projects to completion.
- Collaborate with the central team, tech and partners to select and develop a strong central WMS and OMS system with multi-country, marketplace, warehouse, courier and ERP integration setup.
Ideal Profile
- An independent self-starter who thrives in identifying issues and driving their resolution.
- A highly analytical mindset and can transform a problem definition into a business case.
- Track record of managing operational process design, performance management and / or planning functions for e-commerce brands, e-commerce platforms or logistic companies specialised in e-commerce. (5-8 years in e-commerce or logistics).
- Outstanding project management, planning, and organisation skills, including ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment; ability to prioritise time and business relationship.
- Previous experience in operational due diligence processes is a plus.
- A hunger to deliver truly transformational impact. This role is for someone who gets their hands dirty.
About Opontia
Opontia is on a mission to build the next-generation e-commerce group in Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa by acquiring and scaling high performing e-commerce businesses selling on marketplaces, own websites and social commerce. We are a team of e-commerce experts who are passionate about building a portfolio of best-in-class retail brands.