Background

CDL was founded in early 2003 by its current Managing Director Lucy Mmari. Within her 14 year tenure in a well established logistics company, she honed her skill in human resources management and thereafter started CDL.

Role Purpose

The Senior Operations Manager provides overall strategic oversight, coordination, and performance management across housekeeping, transportation, unit operations, repairs and maintenance, and office operations. This role translates company objectives into operational priorities, ensures budget compliance, enforces quality standards, and fosters seamless cross-departmental coordination.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Governance

• Provide management oversight and direction to departmental managers, supervisors, and team leads.
• Review operational performance regularly and hold departmental leads accountable for results, corrective actions, and timely closure of open items.
• Identify recurring operational failures, determine root causes, and implement sustainable process improvements.

Departmental Oversight

• Housekeeping Operations: Oversee the Housekeeping Manager to ensure SOP compliance, hygiene standards, inspection pass rates, inventory control, and timely unit readiness.
• Transportation & Logistics: Oversee daily transport management, route scheduling, fuel efficiency, vehicle licensing/insurance, routine maintenance, and safety compliance.
• Unit Operations & Readiness: Ensure high presentation standards across all units, manage check-in/check-out readiness, defect resolution, unit onboarding, and offboarding workflows.
• Repairs & Maintenance: Manage maintenance workflows, preventive maintenance schedules, vendor contracts, quality checks on repairs, and emergency issue escalation.
• Office Operations: Provide administrative oversight to ensure a secure, well-supplied, and functional workplace.

Reporting Requirements

• Weekly departmental performance, unit-readiness, incidents and priority action update.
• Monthly operating-cost, maintenance, transport, inventory and service-quality review.
• Quarterly operational improvement, staffing and resource-planning recommendations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Operations, Hospitality, Facilities Management, Business Administration or a related field.
• At least 4 years of operational experience, including 2 years in management; hospitality, serviced-apartment, property or facilities experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of housekeeping, maintenance, transport, procurement, budgets, reporting and operational cost drivers.
• Proven ability to lead departmental teams, manage vendors and resolve cross-functional operational issues.

• Provide management oversight and direction to departmental managers, supervisors, and team leads.
• Review operational performance regularly and hold departmental leads accountable for results, corrective actions, and timely closure of open items.
• Identify recurring operational failures, determine root causes, and implement sustainable process improvements.
• Oversee the Housekeeping Manager to ensure SOP compliance, hygiene standards, inspection pass rates, inventory control, and timely unit readiness.
• Oversee daily transport management, route scheduling, fuel efficiency, vehicle licensing/insurance, routine maintenance, and safety compliance.
• Ensure high presentation standards across all units, manage check-in/check-out readiness, defect resolution, unit onboarding, and offboarding workflows.
• Manage maintenance workflows, preventive maintenance schedules, vendor contracts, quality checks on repairs, and emergency issue escalation.
• Provide administrative oversight to ensure a secure, well-supplied, and functional workplace.
• Weekly departmental performance, unit-readiness, incidents and priority action update.
• Monthly operating-cost, maintenance, transport, inventory and service-quality review.
• Quarterly operational improvement, staffing and resource-planning recommendations.

• housekeeping
• transportation
• unit operations
• repairs and maintenance
• office operations
• SOP compliance
• hygiene standards
• inventory control
• route scheduling
• fuel efficiency
• vehicle licensing/insurance
• routine maintenance
• safety compliance
• check-in/check-out readiness
• defect resolution
• unit onboarding
• unit offboarding
• maintenance workflows
• preventive maintenance schedules
• vendor contracts
• quality checks on repairs
• emergency issue escalation
• administrative oversight
• procurement
• budgets
• reporting
• operational cost drivers
• lead departmental teams
• manage vendors
• resolve cross-functional operational issues

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Operations, Hospitality, Facilities Management, Business Administration or a related field.
• At least 4 years of operational experience, including 2 years in management; hospitality, serviced-apartment, property or facilities experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of housekeeping, maintenance, transport, procurement, budgets, reporting and operational cost drivers.
• Proven ability to lead departmental teams, manage vendors and resolve cross-functional operational issues.