Senior Operations Manager-Hospitality
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Industry Consulting Founded 2003 Type Private Website http://cdl.co.ke/ Address Highway mall, 3rd Floor, Uhuru Highway. P.O. Box 19348-00202, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Role Purpose
- The Senior Operations Manager provides overall strategic oversight, coordination, and performance management across housekeeping, transportation, unit operations, repairs and maintenance, and office operations. This role translates company objectives into operational priorities, ensures budget compliance, enforces quality standards, and fosters seamless cross-departmental coordination.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership & Governance
- Provide management oversight and direction to departmental managers, supervisors, and team leads.
- Review operational performance regularly and hold departmental leads accountable for results, corrective actions, and timely closure of open items.
- Identify recurring operational failures, determine root causes, and implement sustainable process improvements.
Departmental Oversight
- Housekeeping Operations: Oversee the Housekeeping Manager to ensure SOP compliance, hygiene standards, inspection pass rates, inventory control, and timely unit readiness.
- Transportation & Logistics: Oversee daily transport management, route scheduling,fuel efficiency, vehicle licensing/insurance, routine maintenance, and safety compliance.
- Unit Operations & Readiness: Ensure high presentation standards across all units,manage check-in/check-out readiness, defect resolution, unit onboarding, and offboarding workflows.
- Repairs & Maintenance: Manage maintenance workflows, preventive maintenance schedules, vendor contracts, quality checks on repairs, and emergency issue escalation.
- Office Operations: Provide administrative oversight to ensure a secure, well-supplied, and functional workplace.
Reporting Requirements
- Weekly departmental performance, unit-readiness, incidents and priority action update.
- Monthly operating-cost, maintenance, transport, inventory and service-quality review.
- Quarterly operational improvement, staffing and resource-planning recommendations.
Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Operations, Hospitality, Facilities Management, Business Administration or a related field.
- At least 4 years of operational experience, including 2 years in management; hospitality, serviced-apartment, property or facilities experience preferred.
- Working knowledge of housekeeping, maintenance, transport, procurement, budgets,reporting and operational cost drivers.
- Proven ability to lead departmental teams, manage vendors and resolve cross-functional operational issues.