Job Description
Role Description
- We are seeking an experienced and decisive operations leader to drive business excellence in our real estate company.
- This senior management role requires a strong leader with good interpersonal skills, who can embed customer-centric values into service delivery, enforce accountability, and consistently achieve results.
- The Head of Business Excellence ensures that the company is productive, operations are efficient and reliable while also elevating the company’s brand as a premium real estate services provider.
- The role focuses on the day-to-day management of the company's operations and internal processes. The role aligns with the company’s vision to lead the future of real estate through innovation, partnership, and a commitment to service excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Excellence:
- Ensure stakeholder satisfaction at every stage of service delivery.
- Establish and monitor KPIs, enforcing operational standards that drive efficiency, accountability, and achieve positive measurable results.
- Implement initiatives to improve customer experience, strengthening the company’s reputation as a premium provider.
Operational Management and Innovation:
- Translate Fieldco's overall strategy into actionable operational goals and plan
- Oversee all operational activities, including facilities maintenance, safety, regulatory compliance, and sustainability.
- Manage enterprise risk and compliance by overseeing contracts, leases, and other agreements.
- Collaborate with IT to maintain and upgrade systems, leveraging technologies to enhance operations.
- Establish robust internal controls, policies, and procedures to ensure accountability.
- Ensure execution of the strategic plan with regular status reports to leadership.
- Execute strategic initiatives that lead to business expansion and organisational efficiency
- Optimize resources by managing budgets and vendor contracts.
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Financials:
- Drive revenue by enhancing operational efficiency, improving customer satisfaction, and collaborating with sales and marketing teams to achieve organisational objectives.
- Managing operational budgets, ensuring they are realistic and aligned with company goals, and implementing cost-control measures to maintain financial discipline and yield favourable financial results.
- Ensure that Group Heads align operational strategies with the company's financial objectives and ensure that daily operations contribute to the bottom line.
- ·Analyse and monitor operational and financial performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing strategies to achieve better results
Team Development and Leadership:
- Lead and organize teams across departments, providing clear direction to achieve excellence.
- Promote a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and accountability.
- Ensure training, coaching, and professional development opportunities for employees.
- Maintain open communication with leadership and represent the organization externally.
- Contribute to strategic planning and support decision-making at the executive level.
Key Performance Indicators
Financials:
- Adherence to and achievement of budgets, targets and financial goals.
Internal Process:
- Operational efficiency (improve response times, increase facility uptime and reduce downtime, ensure cost efficiency).
- Full compliance with regulations and safety standards.
- Implementation of innovation and measurable service improvements.
Customer:
- Increase customer satisfaction and positive feedback.
- Increase customer retention rate
Employee:
- Increase employee satisfaction,
- Reduce employee turnover
- Establish performance metrics.
Qualification and Experience
- A good Bachelors degree with an MBA
- Extensive senior leadership experience in facilities management, marketing, and real estate operations or related field.
- Strong knowledge of operations and marketing best practices and compliance standards.
- Proven record of driving customer-focused service delivery and transformation.
- Strong financial acumen and experience with large operational budgets.
Skills and Competencies:
- Exceptional leadership and team-building abilities.
- Passion for customer-centric service delivery.
- Integrity, resilience, and commitment to improvement.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- Excellent financial management skills
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strategic, innovative mindset with hands-on execution.
- Ability to strengthen and protect the company’s brand.