
Posted 3 months ago
Business Operation Associate - Kenya
AI Summary
A Business Operation Associate oversees and optimizes daily operations, manages projects and budgets, leads teams, improves processes, and handles vendor and customer relationships to ensure efficient, high-quality service delivery.
About this role
Job Purpose
To oversee and optimize daily operations across the organization by ensuring efficient resource utilization, effective project execution, and high-quality service delivery.
Responsibilities.
Operation management:
• Daily to day management: Overseeing daily business activities, optimizing processes and resources (staff, materials, technology) to ensure efficiency, high productivity, and cost reduction.
• Work with different country head across ISAT Group of company in handling operation matters.
• Improving processes: Identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes to enhance productivity.
• Process Improvement: Analyzing data to enhance workflow efficiency, reduce errors, and increase productivity.
• Budgeting & Finance: Developing budgets, reviewing costs, and optimizing financial performance.
• Team Leadership: Managing personnel, including staffing, training, and maintaining morale.
• Strategic Execution: Aligning day-to-day operations with overall company objectives
Project Management:
• Work with project managers / across group to ensure ed to end Project Management, by delivering Timely, Control cost, and ensuring Quality through constant customer feedback.
• Monitor project progress and set deadlines
Customer Relation Management:
• Work with customer support manager on all customer operation related matters and the incumbent is expected to focus his / her attention on supervising day-to-day operation matters affecting customers.
• Involvement in customer management and visitation to ensure customer experience satisfaction
Vendor management, Pricing & Cost Management:
• Vendor Management Coordination for better relationships and negotiation for favorable pricing.
• Supplier Management – Cultivation and maintaining relationships with vendors and suppliers by evaluating defined SLA for negotiation on costs for purposes of cost reduction.
• Cost Analysis, Implementation assessment of solutions and scheduling of solutions sold.
Compliance. Licensing and Permits:
• Follow up to ensure business compliance in all the operation working closely with group person in charge of regulatory to ensure return are done on quarterly basis.
Knowledge and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Telecommunication.
• At least 2+ years of experience in a similar role working in telecom industry, preferably in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Proven track record of success in managing and improving operations
• Experience in managing operation in complex environmental engaging multiple stakeholders from different countries.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.