Role Overview
As an Operations Manager within an early stage start-up you should be excited to work with the CEO and senior management to handle an extremely broad range of tasks and responsibilities required to build and grow a company. No specific experience is required but you must be energetic, able to learn fast, and be very well-organised.
Example Responsibilities
The role will involve gradually taking over an increasing number of tasks and responsibilities from the CEO, learning on the job. The nature of the work will evolve depending on your aptitude and the experience you gain; it will not include all, but definitely some of these examples:
- Finance functions. Working alongside the senior management and with external accountants to manage budgeting information, make payments, send invoices, etc. - eventually perhaps payroll and tax
- Human Resources functions. Managing employee tracking, holiday booking, onboarding, recruitment - eventually pensions and benefits, performance reviews, company policies
- Logistics. Managing equipment and office space, purchasing, company travel, business and other insurance, dealing with external suppliers and service providers
- Legal. Working alongside the CEO and with our external legal firm to manage statutory and governance requirements and eventually perhaps aspects of contracts and patents
- PR. Marketing and website, press releases, opportunity scoping, responding to enquiries
Qualifications
There are no essential requirements for this role, but salary and starting responsibilities will depend on experience. Whether you have a lot of experience or none at all, this role represents a unique opportunity to grow and progress very rapidly, take on a lot of responsibility, and learn all about running a company.
- Demonstrable organisational skills with evidence of using them successfully in the past
- A desire to learn new things and take on increasing responsibilities in the building, growing and day to day running of a company
- High numeracy and a working knowledge of spreadsheets and basic calculations
- Excellent communication skills, ability to use powerpoint. Knowledge of using tables and charts to organise information and summarise and communicate effectively
- Calendar management, planning and experience coordinating groups of people
- Good literacy, ability to read and understand complicated documents that may include technical or legal information, terms and conditions or descriptions of services
- High emotional intelligence, with empathy and a love of working with, and for the benefit of supporting, all types of colleagues