Assistant Operations Manager

We work with Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies and large health systems. Pedersen Rådgivning is a management and technology consulting firm with 550 employees worldwide. Training starts with a two-week bootcamp, then continues on the job.

The position

This is a backfill for a team member who is relocating. We track everything weekly: on-time delivery, cost per order, overtime and safety incidents. The Assistant Operations Manager runs daily operations for a distribution and service business with about 120 employees across two shifts. On site, Kristiansand.

In this role you will

• Approve purchases and vendor contracts within your spending authority.
• Report weekly KPIs to leadership, including on-time delivery and cost per order.
• Hire, train and develop supervisors and leads.
• Coordinate with sales, customer service and finance on customer issues and forecasts.
• Build labour schedules that meet volume forecasts without excess overtime.

Required qualifications

• 0-2 years of operations management experience, including managing supervisors.
• Strong Excel skills; experience with an ERP or WMS.
• Track record of improving productivity and cost metrics.
• Able to walk the floor for extended periods.

Preferred qualifications

• Multi-site management.
• Bilingual English and Spanish.

Salary: NOK 450,000 - NOK 600,000 per year

Why work with us

• Private health insurance.
• Occupational pension.
• Parental leave top-up.
• Five weeks of annual leave.
• Training budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pedersen Rådgivning AS.