Smart Partners Consulting Limited (SPCL) - Our client is a Nigerian fashion and lifestyle group currently undergoing a formal restructuring to support scale and long-term growth. The group comprises of a heritage luxury womenswear brand (established 10 years ago), a strategic new fashion brand (in development), a production and manufacturing business supporting both internal and external clients.The group is founder-led and production-driven, with increasing complexity across brands, systems, and manufacturing operations.
They are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Operations & Strategy
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Group: Nigerian fashion and manufacturing group
Role Purpose
- The Group Head of Operations will serve as the Founder’s primary partner in translating group strategy into executable operational plans.
- This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on operational leadership, ensuring that growth strategies are practical, well-structured, and successfully implemented across all businesses in the group.
- This will rest on the ability to build operational structure, discipline, and scalability across brands and manufacturing — ensuring consistency, efficiency, and execution excellence as the group grows.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Leadership:
- Work closely with the Founder & Group CEO to develop and refine group-level growth strategies
- Translate strategic priorities into clear operational roadmaps, milestones, and execution plans
- Provide strategic input on scaling brands, manufacturing capacity, and operational structure
- Act as a thought partner in decision-making across growth, efficiency, and risk
Group Operations:
- Own group-wide operations across all brands and the manufacturing business
- Oversee production planning, manufacturing, timelines, and quality control
- Establish and lead group-level operational systems, workflows, and reporting
- Drive cost control, efficiency, and margin discipline across entities
- Coordinate execution across design, production, finance, and commercial functions
- Identify operational bottlenecks early and implement corrective action
Scale & Execution:
- Lead the transition from founder-led execution to structured, scalable operations
- Build operational foundations that support future growth, new brands, and increased complexity
Profile & Experience
- Strong background in manufacturing-led or production-driven organisations
- Experience operating at multi-brand or group level
- Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels
- Understanding of operating in Nigeria/Africa or similar developing markets
- Highly structured, commercially minded and solutions-oriented
- Particular experience in fashion, apparel, or manufacturing is strongly preferred.
Compensations and Benefits
- Competitive compensation aligned with experience and capability
- Performance-linked bonus structure
- Leadership growth pathway within a scaling organisation
- Employee HMO scheme.
Why this role
- Strategic partnership with the Founder at group level
- Opportunity to shape and execute growth at a group and systems level across multiple businesses
- Significant autonomy and strategic influence
- Direct impact on scaling multiple brands and a manufacturing business
- Long-term leadership growth potential.
Application Closing Date
31st March, 2026.
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