Chief Operations Officer at Corporate Headfitters Limited

Reports to: Managing Director
Supervises: Unit heads

Summary of Duty

• Responsible for researching, planning, developing, executing, overseeing and supervising the company's activities and employees to ensure the company's financial and other goals are met.

Details

• Managing and supervising: Oversee the day-to-day operations and activities of workers and ensure they understand their duties and have the resources to meet goals and targets set for them. Allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course corrections.
• Financial management: Develop and implement budgets, prepare reports for senior management and ensure the department complies with company and government policies.
• Human resource activities: Increase company's effectiveness by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counseling, and disciplining unit heads, communicating values, strategies, and objectives; assigning accountabilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; developing incentives; developing a climate for offering information and opinions; providing educational opportunities where possible.
• Research and Development: Carry out regular research pertaining to the industry and Develop strategic plans for success, make recommendations to improve standards. Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies
• Coordinating: Co-ordinating activities between departments daily by establishing procurement, administrative, financial, production, sales and marketing plans, policies and practices in line with company objectives.
• Plans, Meetings, Reports and Feedback: Weekly meetings, planning and rendering daily feedback and detailed written reports on the daily activities of all departments of the company
• Represent company: Build company image by collaborating with customers, government, community organizations, and employees; enforcing ethical business practices.
• Quality control: Ensure company lives up to it's brand image in delivery products and services at all times and on all platforms.
• Targets: Ensure all financial and company targets are met by all staff and in all departments.
• Miscellaneous: All other duties as will be reasonably requested of you.

Skills and Qualifications

• A Degree in Accounting with be a great advantage or any relevant discipline
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a managerial position in a structured environment
• Able to use peachtree or Quickbooks
• Must write and speak English fluently
• Must be at least 40 years of age
• Performance Management
• Management Proficiency
• Coordination, scheduling
• Coaching/training
• Time management
• Developing Standards
• Financial Planning and Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Decision Making
• Strategic Planning
• Problem solving
• Team building.

Abilities:

• Ability to multitask and produce excellent results
• Ability to think fast, analyze situations, and come up with workable solutions to challenges faced by the company and staff
• Work to very tight deadlines and targets
• Able to solve problems
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills to direct employees and lead the company
• Possess outgoing skills to ensure smooth business relationship with customers and third parties such as financial institutions, government organizations etc
• Possess good sense of judgment
• Possess computer operation skills and ability to use a number of Microsoft Office packages, like Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.