Job Description
Operations Manager
Department: Account Management
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: New York
Reporting To: Kaitlyn Reilly
Compensation: $75,000 - $85,000 / year
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Drive operational excellence and efficiency improvements across the Americas region
- Operationalize contractual KPIs by defining ways of working, capturing required data, and implementing solutions
- Own process documentation (policies, procedures, playbooks) and improve planning templates/tools
- Monitor performance metrics, identify trends, and lead continuous improvement with internal teams and the client
- Produce weekly/monthly reporting packs with clear insights and recommendations; present executive summaries to senior stakeholders
- Lead cross-functional projects end-to-end, delivering on time and within budget; maintain project plans and tracking
- Proactively troubleshoot service delivery issues, escalating early to mitigate risk
- Partner with the Account Director to identify client efficiencies (procurement patterns, buying cycles, sustainability, POS/premium alternatives)
- Support onboarding, approvals/compliance, account planning, proposals, business reviews and client presentations
- Support training and capability uplift across teams
- Work with commercial finance on budgeting/reporting; monitor campaigns to ensure delivery, brand alignment, and target achievement
- Analyse MI/financial/sales reporting to track performance against objectives and budgets
- Drive strategic thinking, innovation and thought leadership; manage multiple priorities independently under pressure
- Able to commute to New York City office 1-2 days per week
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years' of experience working with performance data, reporting packs, and executive-level summaries (high accuracy and attention to detail)
- Experience at Manager level, with strong leadership capability and ability to motivate cross-functional teams
- Experience working with Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
- Strong operational and process design mindset (ways of working, documentation, continuous improvement)
- Confident working with
- Strong commercial awareness and comfort managing budgets, metrics and delivery targets
- Excellent client relationship, communication and presentation skills (including building client-facing decks)
- Proactive, resourceful, and solutions-focused with the ability to anticipate issues and act early