Senior Operations Specialist

Cavista Holdings is driven by the belief that business should be a force for good. Our primary focus is on investing in the world’s most underserved regions, where we strive to bring together capital, expertise, and partnerships to unlock opportunities, create value, and transform lives.

Our investment strategy is centered around promoting economic development, job creation, and improving communities around the world. We have diversified our portfolio across various sectors, including agriculture, energy, hospitality, and technology to advance our mission.

Cavista Holdings is searching for great talent. We are an open, agile environment, where transparent conversation ignites collaboration with a team of great thinkers. Everyone freely contributes, ideas override egos, and the best idea always wins. We embrace new technologies and pride ourselves in our great culture. In our world, opportunity paired with imagination is limitless and we build what others can only hope to dream. We build the best because we hire only the best! We’ve created an atmosphere allowing you to produce your best work.

The Senior Operations Specialist is a strategic role responsible for driving operational excellence, business performance, and continuous improvement across Cavista Holdings and its diverse portfolio of companies. This role provides enterprise-wide operational support in process reviews, coordinating strategic initiatives, conducting portfolio business visits, and partnering with business leaders to optimize operations, enhance governance, and improve organizational effectiveness. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, analytical thinking, and excellence, with the ability to support multiple businesses, manage cross-functional initiatives, and deliver sustainable operational improvements across diverse industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence across Cavista Holdings and its portfolio companies by partnering with business leaders to improve organizational performance, optimize business processes, standardize operations, and ensure the effective execution of strategic priorities and enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Serve as a strategic operations partner to all portfolio companies by providing enterprise-wide operational support, conducting regular business visits, facilitating operational and performance reviews, identifying business improvement opportunities, and coordinating solutions that enhance operational efficiency, service delivery, and overall business performance.
• Support the design, review, implementation, and continuous improvement of business processes, operating models, governance frameworks, policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational controls to drive consistency, scalability, compliance, and operational excellence across the Group.
• Coordinate and support cross-functional strategic initiatives, transformation programmes, integration projects, and business-critical assignments, ensuring effective planning, stakeholder alignment, risk mitigation, timely execution, and measurable business outcomes.
• Monitor operational performance through the analysis of key business metrics, operational dashboards, and performance data, providing executive reports, actionable insights, and strategic recommendations that support informed decision-making, continuous improvement, and business growth.
• Conduct operational assessments, business health checks, and process audits across portfolio companies to identify operational risks, performance gaps, efficiency opportunities, and improvement initiatives, while tracking the implementation of agreed action plans.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with portfolio company leadership and teams including Finance, People, Talent Acquisition, Legal, and other business functions to resolve operational challenges, strengthen collaboration, and support the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Support the development and implementation of operational governance frameworks and enterprise risk mitigation strategies that promote accountability, operational resilience, and sustainable business performance.
• Facilitate executive meetings, operational reviews, strategic planning sessions, and business performance discussions by preparing presentations, reports, status updates, and decision-support materials for senior leadership.
• Championing a culture of operational excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement by identifying best practices, leveraging technology and automation opportunities, driving process optimization, promoting knowledge sharing, and supporting change management initiatives across the portfolio.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, business integrations, new business launches, and other corporate initiatives by providing operational coordination, implementation support, and post-integration performance monitoring where required.
• Represent the Operations function in cross-functional projects and strategic engagements, ensuring operational considerations are embedded in business decisions and organizational initiatives across the Group.
• Perform any other strategic operational, business improvement, portfolio support, or executive assignments as may be required by executive leadership to support the growth, sustainability, operational maturity, and long-term success of Cavista Holdings and its portfolio companies.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Management, or a related discipline.
• Master's degree (MBA or related field) is an advantage.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Prince2, or similar are desirable.

Experience

• Minimum of 6–8 years of progressive experience in Operations, Business Operations, Strategy, Project Management, Consulting, or Operational Excellence.
• Experience supporting multiple business units or operating within a holdings company, conglomerate, or consulting environment.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional operational improvement initiatives.
• Experience preparing executive reports and performance dashboards.
• Experience working across multiple industries is an advantage.

Why Join Cavista Holdings?

At Cavista Holdings, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the company’s global growth and public policy agenda across the United States, Africa, and other emerging markets. You will work alongside visionary senior leaders, engage with key government and international stakeholders, and play a critical role in advancing strategic initiatives that support sustainable business growth and long-term value creation.

This position offers the opportunity to shape government relations and international affairs strategies, build high-level relationships with policymakers, government agencies, foreign governments, embassies, industry associations, and international organizations, and identify strategic partnerships that create meaningful commercial and policy opportunities for Cavista Holdings and its portfolio of businesses.

For a high-impact government relations and international affairs leader seeking a platform to influence public policy, develop strategic partnerships, navigate complex regulatory and geopolitical environments, and support business expansion across Africa and global markets, this is a career-defining opportunity.

How to apply:

• Submit an online application.

• You will receive an email response with further instructions.

Cavista Holdings is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.