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Assistant Manager, Business Operations & Strategy

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This job is for an Assistant Manager in Business Operations at ZUS Coffee, where you'll connect teams and lead projects to fuel our coffee revolution. You might like this job because you’ll solve problems and drive innovation in a fast-paced startup!

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Subang Jaya, Selangor

Job Description

 About Us

ZUS Coffee is a super fast-growing startup on a mission to bring our coffee to meet the world. We thrive on innovation, speed, and collaboration, and we’re looking for a Project Manager, CEO's Office (MYSG) to help us scale effectively while keeping teams aligned and projects on track.

Objective

As a Project Manager, CEO's Office (MYSG), you will be the glue between teams—driving cross-functional initiatives, breaking down silos, and ensuring execution excellence. You’ll work across departments, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within scope, and aligned with company objectives. Your ability to think on your feet, solve problems, and drive execution with a can-do attitude will be critical to our success.

Position Responsibilities

  • Drive Cross-Functional Projects – Act as the bridge between departments (Product, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, Tech, etc.) to execute high-impact initiatives.
  • Project Execution & Delivery – Own the end-to-end project lifecycle, from planning to execution, ensuring milestones are met within deadlines.
  • Strategic Problem Solving – Proactively identify roadblocks and design practical, scalable solutions to keep projects moving.
  • Process Optimization – Build and refine workflows that enhance collaboration, efficiency, and execution speed.
  • Stakeholder Management – Work closely with leadership and key teams to align priorities, provide project visibility, and remove bottlenecks.
  • Agile Mindset & Adaptability – Embrace change, navigate ambiguity, and pivot quickly in response to shifting business needs.
  • KPI & Performance Tracking – Define and track success metrics, ensuring projects deliver measurable business impact.

Job Requirements

Qualification and Experience

  • 3 - 8 years of experience managing cross-functional projects in fast-paced environments. Prior consulting or strategy experience or knowledge in Retail, Operational or Manufacturing optimization, Review of Organizational goals and KPIs (startup experience is a plus!).
  • A proactive problem solver who takes initiative and thrives in a dynamic, high-energy environment. Familiarity with business operating models, strategy implementation, project management execution.
  • Ability to work with different teams, manage expectations, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
  • You move fast, prioritize effectively, and focus on delivering results.
  • You know when to introduce structure and when to adapt to evolving needs.
  • Comfortable using project management tools (Lark, Microsoft Project etc.), and making data-backed decisions.
  • You understand team dynamics and know how to build strong, productive relationships.

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Skills

Project Management

Company Benefits

Employee Discount

Enjoy employee discounts on beverage, merchandise, etc at all outlets across Malaysia.

Employee Perk Programmes

Establishment of corporate benefits to offer exclusive discounts or benefits to each employee.

Health and Wellness

Out-patient care and in-patient care are covered for all employee including ongoing wellness programs & activites.

Career Development

Job training and continuing education help to fuel employee career growth.

Extension Leave Benefits

Provide more generous with their leave days. We have more than 6 other types of leave!


Additional Info

Company Activity

Last active - few minutes ago

Career Level

Senior Executive

Job Specialisation


Company Profile

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ZUS COFFEE

For many, coffee is a daily need. Specialty coffee, however, is often seen as a luxury, something you treat yourself to only on special occasions.We started ZUS Coffee to change this perception.With the best quality ingredients, high-level coffee brewing technology and innovative business model, we’re evolving the concept of coffee consumption to make specialty coffee affordable for everyone, everyday.a...