Origin Group Vacancy in Lagos for an Operations Manager - Origin Furniture

Origin Group is a twenty first century group of companies with varying deeply vested interests in key economic sector in Nigeria and China.


Origin Group operates in sectors such as agriculture, engineering & construction, trade advisory & trade outsourcing, manufacturing, import and export among others. We are an indigenous company with a fast track record owning significant market share with a growing clientele profile; our services are tailored towards client’s satisfaction with quality control assurance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Operations Manager - Origin Furniture

Location: Lagos
Reports To: Director of Operations

Job Purpose

• Responsible for achieving sales turnover, on time delivery of products and profit maximization.

• Create and maintain productive relationships with business partners and work cross-functionally with global partners to support key business initiatives
• Design and implement business strategies that would ensure the achievement of business goals
• Planning, scheduling and reviewing workload to ensure production output and on time delivery targets are achieved cost effectively.
• Promote & maintain awareness and compliance of H&S in accordance with best practice and legal requirement.
• Offer flexible and helpful customer service to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction and repeat business.
• Manage change to meet current business requirements.
• Establish goals and objectives for self and team and implement accordingly to help support / improve job performance (experience, ability, competence)
• Ensuring that the appropriate systems and processes are in place to measure and manage staff performance and to coach and develop a high performance workforce
• Guides and monitors compliance with relevant company policies, procedures and regulatory provisions.
• Communicating with all the relevant people / departments and co-ordinating all relevant inputs (people, plant and processes) to ensure production output and on time delivery targets are achieved
• Managing the purchasing function / department to ensure material is purchased cost effectively and available for production when required.
• Managing the Inventory function /stock control to ensure raw material and product is receipted, located, stored and transferred correctly and that the company’s stock inventory is accurate.
• Monitor & review manufacturing operations to ensure correct quality standards.
• Ensure production/quality processes, equipment being used and the working environments are all conducive to producing a high quality product / service.

• University degree in architecture, interior decoration, wood technology or any other relevant discipline.
• Customer focused
• Takes initiative, implement and manage change in the business
• Excellent organisation experience and business administration skills in line with best practices.
• Commercial awareness
• An entrepreneurial spirit
• MS office proficiency.
• Minimum of 7 years work experience with at least 3 years in a similar role within the furniture industry
• MBA/MSC degree possession is an added advantage
• Demonstrate solid financial understanding of the business
• Self-motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic