Relocation-Ready COO — Kenya Operations & Growth

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 9,300 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

FinAgra is seeking a Chief Operating Officer for Kenya, relocating to lead execution of our operating model across farms and REPs. The role directly oversees Agronomy, Agricultural Operations, and the REP Program, while coordinating with Procurement, Finance, Commercial, Product, Technology, and other functions.

The COO will build scalable processes, management systems, and a culture of ownership to enable FinAgra Kenya to scale while maintaining execution discipline.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of operational leadership experience, ideally as a COO, GM, or Head of Operations.
• Experience managing complex, distributed or multi-site operations.
• Proven ability to build management systems, processes and operational discipline in a growing organisation.

Responsibilities

• Translate company and seasonal priorities into executable plans across teams, regions and farms.
• Identify operational bottlenecks, resolve cross-functional dependencies, and ensure issues are escalated and addressed quickly.
• Build scalable processes that allow FinAgra to grow across more REPs, farms and regions without losing execution quality.
• Lead Agronomy, AgOps, and the REP Program, and ensure these functions operate as one integrated system.
• Coordinate execution across Operations, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, Product and Technology.
• Ensure operational requirements are clearly defined and communicated to supporting functions.
• Drive strong seasonal planning and alignment across functions.
• Establish management routines, KPIs, reporting and escalation processes that provide visibility into execution.
• Establish high standards of operational discipline, safety, ethics, transparency and accountability.
• Build and enforce clear SOPs, management standards and operational controls.
• Ensure strong standards around worker safety, machinery use, chemical handling and responsible farm operations.
• Develop local managers and create a culture of ownership, problem-solving and professional management.
• Build an organisation that can operate with increasing independence and consistency as FinAgra scales.

Skills

Operational leadership

Multi-site operations

Management systems

Cross-functional coordination

People leadership

Strategic leadership

Tools

ERP systems

Farm management software

Job description

FinAgra is seeking a Chief Operating Officer for Kenya, relocating to lead execution of our operating model across farms and REPs. The role directly oversees Agronomy, Agricultural Operations, and the REP Program, while coordinating with Procurement, Finance, Commercial, Product, Technology, and other functions.

The COO will build scalable processes, management systems, and a culture of ownership to enable FinAgra Kenya to scale while maintaining execution discipline.