Manager-Operations
Global Group New Zealand Ltd
Total years of experience :32 years, 11 Months
A trades and services company. Involved from the inception stage, designed and established entire operations systems to create a profitable business entity.
Responsibilities:
• Keeping the existing supply chains effective and establishing new ones, keeping tabs on the applicable logistics, new market trends and catering to the latest.
• Spearheading crucial projects by coordinating laterally between diverse technical teams and vertically across management hierarchy to seamlessly implement - project rollouts, management systems and process enhancements.
• Collating and analyzing data pertaining to various performance and business parameters to plan and effect turnkey business solutions, aimed at enhancing profitability, throughput and system responses.
• Ensuring and enforcing strictest adherence to quality standards by implementing rigorous quality assurance policies.
• Managing inventory levels, to control costs meeting targets and evaluating tenders for sub-contractors and outsourced jobs.
• Drafting annual budget, effecting cost cutting measures. Recruiting, training and managing middle level managers for departments under purview.
• Monitoring all occupational health and safety policies as per local and national bylaws.
Responsibilities:
• In charge of financial modeling for allocated projects.
• Delegated single or multiple responsibilities, including budgeting to a team of Assistant Project Managers.
• Allocated work modules to various teams under purview and consistently followed up on progress of modules, to ensure seamless integration upon completion and deliverability.
• Defined work scope, authorized work, monitored progress, assigned and controlled budgets.
• Provided written direction to the various functional units Support Managers (Task Managers) about the project's work scope, schedule, budget information and their individual contribution.
• Reported to the senior management requisitioning additional resources as per requirement. Justified overheads, effected cost reduction, and optimized employee throughput.
• Liaised with vendors and suppliers, evaluated tenders, comparative procurements.
• Personally handled emergencies and devised impromptu solutions addressing the same.
Responsibilities:
• Designed road maps, systems and lucid policies for liaising and maintaining long-term business relations with various overseas clients, advised management on policies affecting organizational objectives.
• Spearheaded negotiations for favorable terms technical specifications, delivery and payment schedule. Ensured all agreed upon provisos were adhered to, by coordinating with end users.
• Trained prospective on site employees in protocols in view of cultural diversity, language and communication skills.
• Reviewed and drafted all critical contractual and operations procedure documents and manuals.
A construction Consultancy
Key Projects to Credit:
• Buchanan Builders Ltd (Consultant)
Project values up to NZ$ 1, 000, 000.
Handled additional responsibility of supervising all trades in relation to Insurance refurbishment’s and rebuilds of fire damage, natural disaster and accidental damage reinstatement.
• Linear Installations
Project values up to NZ$ 1.000, 000.
Overall in-charge of construction works for 14 Town Houses in various locations throughout Auckland. and refurbishing 100 residential and commercial properties
• Finish Product Limited
Project values up to NZ$ 500, 000.
Designing quotations and heading execution of project for joinery installation work - Timber and aluminum windows.
• Excell Corporation
Project value NZ$ 3 mio per annum.
Contract Supervisor.
Interior construction and fit out company. Based in Burton on Trent with assembly plant in Bolton England) and manufacturing facility in Nigeria.
Key Project to Credit:
• Handled Projects with budgets in excess of 500, 000 UK Pounds.
Other Professional Forays:
2000-2004
Recruitment Consultant and Founding Member
Global Recruit. (South Korea)
ESL Recruitment agents.
• Identified, recruited and facilitated the import of qualified ESL trainers from around the world for South Korea.
Summa Cum Laude