Job Brief: As a Senior Manager in Projects & Operations, your role entails cultivating and maintaining robust relationships with our pivotal clients across merchandising, FMCG in-store, events & activation, and warehouse & F&B recruitment.
Key Responsibilities :
- Manage and grow key accounts — build and maintain relationships with principals and clients across all four lines, understanding their evolving needs and adapting delivery accordingly.
- Close the hiring gap for warehouse & F&B projects — work closely with the recruitment team to identify unfulfilled roles and accelerate talent acquisition and onboarding of ground workers.
- Expand reach into new/outstation regions — grow active project and workforce coverage beyond current urban centres across merchandising, FMCG in-store and warehouse/F&B lines.
- Understand market insights and propose an activation plan — conduct market surveys, track user behaviour, competitor landscape and category trends, and turn findings into account-growth or activation recommendations.
- Identify gaps and propose solutions — proactively pinpoint operational, process, or resourcing shortcomings across the four lines and present actionable, data-backed recommendations.
- Reporting and post-mortem — deliver regular performance and account reports, evaluate campaign/project/event outcomes, and derive learnings to continuously improve operational effectiveness.
- Manage the team as manager-of-record — directly lead the operations team, with coaching and capability-building matched to each individual's level.
- Lead ground execution — act as on-site lead for activations, roving campaigns and warehouse/recruitment drives, stepping into hands-on operational work when needed.
- Facilitate change requests — ensure clients and internal teams are informed of schedule and budget impacts whenever project scope changes.