About this role
West Africa Vocational Education (WAVE) - Our client, a premium bridal fashion brand, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: People & Systems Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- The successful candidate will be responsible for building and managing the systems, processes, people, and administrative structures required for the business to operate efficiently, consistently, and to a high standard.
- A key part of this role is systems integration and process automation.
- The successful candidate will use Zoho or a comparable integrated business-management platform to connect workflows, automate routine processes, improve visibility, and strengthen accountability across the organisation.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Business Operations & Execution:
- Coordinate day-to-day business operations and translate management priorities into clear actions, owners, and deadlines.
- Build, document, and continuously improve SOPs, workflows, approval processes, and operational controls.
- Maintain operational dashboards and trackers.
- Identify bottlenecks, missed deadlines, and recurring operational issues before they escalate.
- Coordinate execution across Sales, Product/Production, Finance, Retail, and other functions.
- Coordinate key customer, bridal, inventory, and vendor commitments.
- Ensure cross-functional activities are completed efficiently and within agreed timelines.
Systems Integration & Process Automation:
- Own the implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of Zoho or a comparable integrated business-management platform.
- Map business processes and translate them into practical digital workflows.
- Develop workflows across CRM, sales, inventory, tasks/projects, HR, approvals, customer service, and reporting.
- Integrate systems to reduce duplicated data entry, disconnected spreadsheets, and unnecessary manual processes.
- Build automated workflows, alerts, approval processes, dashboards, and management reports.
- Maintain system data quality, user permissions, documentation, and adoption standards.
- Train employees on relevant systems and monitor compliance.
- Manage external Zoho/system specialists where required while retaining ownership of business requirements, implementation, and outcomes.
Human Resources & People Management:
- Coordinate recruitment, onboarding, probation, confirmation, leave, attendance, employee documentation, and exit processes.
- Ensure employees have current job descriptions, clear responsibilities, and measurable performance expectations.
- Maintain accurate HR records.
- Support the implementation of HR policies, employee relations, disciplinary processes, and grievance procedures.
- Coordinate performance reviews and work with managers to address underperformance, behavioural issues, and development needs.
- Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, professionalism, collaboration, and high standards.
Learning, Training & Development:
- Own the company's training calendar, onboarding programme, and ongoing employee development plan.
- Conduct training-needs assessments with managers.
- Translate identified capability gaps into practical learning interventions.
- Coordinate product knowledge, customer service, sales, systems, SOP/operations, and leadership training as required.
- Source and coordinate internal and external trainers.
- Maintain training records and assess whether training interventions improve performance.
- Ensure new employees are properly oriented on company culture, policies, systems, role expectations, and operating standards.
Performance Management & Culture:
- Coordinate company-wide KPI and performance-management processes, including reviews, improvement plans, and follow-up actions.
- Maintain visibility of team performance and ensure agreed actions and development commitments are completed.
- Support managers in setting expectations, holding teams accountable, and addressing performance gaps promptly.
- Coordinate recognition and feedback processes.
- Reinforce company values through management routines, training, and communication.
- Use people and performance data to identify recurring capability, accountability, or organisational issues and recommend solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations, Human Resources, Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- 5 years of relevant experience across business operations, administration, HR/people management, process improvement, or organisational systems.
- Strong hands-on experience implementing or administering Zoho applications is highly desirable.
- Experience with a comparable ERP, CRM, or integrated business-management platform will also be considered.
- Demonstrable experience mapping processes, configuring workflows, improving systems adoption, and using automation/reporting to improve execution.
- Practical experience in HR administration, performance management, training coordination, and employee lifecycle processes.
- Strong project-management, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work across multiple departments and drive accountability.
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to manage confidential employee, business, and operational information appropriately.
- Experience in fashion, retail, luxury, e-commerce, consumer goods, or another fast-moving customer-focused business is an advantage.
What We're Looking For:
- We're looking for a systems-oriented people and operations professional who can bring structure, accountability, and efficiency to a growing organisation.
- The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across operations, HR, administration, systems, and process improvement.
- They should be able to translate business needs into practical processes and digital workflows while also managing people-related responsibilities and ensuring that teams consistently follow agreed standards.
Salary
N200,000 - N300,000 Monthly
Application Closing Date
20th October, 2026.