Business Operations Manager (FMCG)
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Hire Fellows seeks a hands-on Business Operations Manager for a bottled water business in Saudi Arabia. The role oversees end-to-end sales, distribution, and operations, requiring 4+ years of experience in the bottled water industry.
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Responsibilities
- Own end to end execution across sales, distribution, and operations
- Lead the sales team to deliver volume, revenue, and coverage targets
- Strengthen route to market strategy to ensure full market coverage and availability
- Drive in market execution across retail, wholesale, and HORECA channels
- Monitor sales performance regularly and take immediate corrective actions
- Oversee coordination between production, inventory, and logistics to ensure consistent supply
- Ensure on time delivery and minimize stock outs and overstocking
- Align production planning with market demand in coordination with factory teams
- Own P&L performance, including revenue growth, cost control, and margin optimization
- Identify and implement cost saving and efficiency improvement initiatives
- Set, track, and enforce KPIs across sales, distribution, and operations
- Drive accountability and performance across teams
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in the bottled water industry (mandatory)
- English required; Arabic preferred but not mandatory (must be able to manage Arabic speaking teams)
- Strong on ground experience in the water category
- Understanding of distribution, route to market, and field execution
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Job Overview
- We are looking for a hands on and results driven Business Operations Manager to lead the day to day performance of a growing bottled water business.
- This role is ideal for someone with strong on ground experience in the water category, who understands distribution, route to market, and field execution, and can drive immediate commercial results while ensuring operational efficiency.
- You will oversee the full value chain across sales, distribution, and operations, working closely with factory, logistics, and finance teams to ensure strong market execution, product availability, and profitability.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end to end execution across sales, distribution, and operations
- Lead the sales team to deliver volume, revenue, and coverage targets
- Strengthen route to market strategy to ensure full market coverage and availability
- Drive in market execution across retail, wholesale, and HORECA channels
- Monitor sales performance regularly and take immediate corrective actions
- Oversee coordination between production, inventory, and logistics to ensure consistent supply
- Ensure on time delivery and minimize stock outs and overstocking
- Align production planning with market demand in coordination with factory teams
- Own P&L performance, including revenue growth, cost control, and margin optimization
- Identify and implement cost saving and efficiency improvement initiatives
- Set, track, and enforce KPIs across sales, distribution, and operations
- Drive accountability and performance across teams
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in the bottled water industry (mandatory)
- Oversee end to end operations — sourcing, production, logistics, and sales.
- Improve efficiency, reduce costs, and eliminate waste across all functions.
- Ensure production quality, compliance, and operational excellence.
- Manage the P&L and deliver growth in revenue and profitability.
- Set and track KPIs across sales and production.
- Lead and develop sales team
- Strengthen route to market and ensure market coverage.
- Drive collaboration between factory, logistics, sales, and finance.
- English required Arabic preferred but not mandatory (must be able to manage Arabic speaking teams)
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