Operations Manager

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Grade A Auto Parts of Dayton, Ohio, is immediately hiring for the position of Operations Manager.

General Manager Job Responsibilities:

• Oversees operational systems, processes, and infrastructure while looking for opportunities of improvement or revision.
• Anticipates and tracks operational and tactical risks and providing strategic solutions.
• Manages day to day business of the operations department while balancing the responsibilities of various business lines such as business analysis, vendor, and risk management.
• Works with sales teams to help set and meet daily and quarterly goals.
• Plays a significant role in long-term planning, project status reporting, and implementing change control processes.
• Oversees and reports weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual metrics.
• Identifies trends and assess opportunities to improve processes and execution.
• Completes reasonability testing and information validation prior to circulating findings and recommendations to key stakeholders.
• Collaborates with other back-office team members to ensure seamless business execution, reinforce positive morale, and uphold company values.
• Collaborates with transitions and onboarding team as needed.
• Raises and tracks issues and conflicts, remove barriers, resolve issues of medium complexity involving stakeholders and escalate to appropriate level when required.
• Assesses a variety of situations and provide clarity to team and stakeholders.
• Establishes and maintains credible, professional relationships with clients, internal business lines, and external vendors.
• Solicits and responds to feedback while gaining commitment and support.
• Supports back-office and firm-wide training programs, reinforcing tech and operations infrastructure between departments to ensure consistency and quality standards are met.
• Stays up to date on industry regulations, trends, and technology.
• Works closely with management team to ensure all operational, administrative, and compliance functions within the firm are being properly executed in accordance to regulatory-based best practices.
• Manage distribution network and ensures all deliveries are made timely to customers.
• Analyze returns from customers for speed of processing and operational failures resulting in loss of sale.

Operations Manager Qualifications / Skills:

• Addressing operational concerns and issues, monitoring overall customer satisfaction
• Developing and implementing operational procedures and policies
• Analyzing training needs/requirements
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizing skills to coordinate project activities
• Ability to communicate with others effectively
• Ability to conduct research for special projects, respond timely inquiries, and present written/ oral briefings
• Ability to work with details and time-sensitive issues
• Good decision-making skills and response to high-pressure situations

Education, Experience, and Licensing preferred not required:

• Bachelor’s degree in program management, business or public administration, technical management, information systems, engineering, finance/accounting, or related field
• Minimum of two (2) years of recent overall project management experience
• Experience may be considered equivalent if experience demonstrated increased depth and breadth of responsibility

A Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) can be used in lieu of the educational requirements