Reports To: Manager – HR & Admin
Work Days: Mon- Sat 8.30am - 6pm
Job Purpose
- The Assistant Manager – Administration will drive operational efficiency across four core pillars: Facility Management, Fleet Management, Immigration & Protocol, and Accommodation & Travel Management.
- This role relies heavily on advanced Excel skills and data analysis to track regulatory compliance timelines, optimize asset utilization, manage third-party vendors, and tightly control operational budgets.
Key Responsibilities
Facility Management & Production Support:
- Factory & Corporate Upkeep: Coordinate routine, preventive, and emergency maintenance across office buildings, production floors, and warehouses.
- Utility & Power Tracking: Maintain automated Excel logs tracking diesel consumption, public grid power billing, and generator runtime to flag waste and optimize energy costs.
Immigration, Protocol & Air Ticket Bookings:
- Quota & Visa Tracking: Build and manage automated Excel compliance dashboards for Expatriate Quotas, CERPAC Green Cards, Business Visas, and Subject-to-Regularization STR processes.
- Statutory Compliance: File mandatory monthly Expatriate Quota Returns with the Ministry of Interior, ensuring zero lapses or government fines.
- Airport Protocol & Security: Supervise seamless meet-and-greet airport reception services, visa-on-arrival processing, and secure transit logistics including MOPOL escorts for international guests and technical partners.
- Travel & Flight Management: Oversee domestic and international air ticket bookings, manage travel agency relationships, and track flight spend and refund data in Excel to minimize corporate travel overheads.
Fleet Management & Logistics:
- Fleet Analytics: Analyze vehicle fueling data, mileage records, and GPS tracking logs in Excel to eliminate fuel theft and optimize trip routing.
- Maintenance & Licensing: Schedule preventive maintenance for all factory vehicles, trucks, and pools. Maintain an automated dashboard tracking registration, hackney permits, and insurance renewal dates.
- Driver & Logistics Management: Supervise corporate drivers, manage shift schedules, and run routine safety and route compliance audits.
Accommodation & Residence Maintenance:
- Guest House & Housing Management: Oversee the daily operations, housekeeping, and catering standards of expatriate residences and corporate guest houses.
- Estate Facility Management: Manage dedicated estate infrastructure, including water treatment systems, backup power, central HVAC systems, and residential security deployments.
- Expat Welfare Coordination: Ensure swift resolution of maintenance complaints raised by expatriate residents, logging response times and vendor performance indicators in Excel.
Vendor Management & Data-Driven Budgeting:
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Clean, manipulate, and analyze monthly admin spend data using Excel Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP to present variance reports to executive management.
- Vendor Scorecards: Evaluate third-party service providers janitorial, diesel suppliers, mechanics, landlords, travel agencies using data-driven performance scorecards to negotiate commercial contracts.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Experience & Education:
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management, Statistics, or an equivalent field.
- Experience: 5–7 years of corporate administration experience, with a minimum of 3 years handling a combined portfolio of facilities, fleets, corporate travel, and immigration within a manufacturing or large industrial setting in Nigeria.
Technical, Data & Regulatory Skills:
- Advanced MS Excel: Deep proficiency in Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, Power Query, conditional formatting, and creating interactive administrative dashboards.
- Immigration Frameworks: Practical, current knowledge of Nigerian Immigration Service NIS regulations, visa processing, and Ministry of Interior quota guidelines.
- Facility & Asset Management: Strong understanding of preventive maintenance frameworks for residential estates, manufacturing facilities, and heavy-duty vehicles.
Soft Skills:
- Analytical Mindset: Strong numerical accuracy and an innate ability to spot trends, anomalies, and waste in operational data.
- Crisis Management: High emotional intelligence and the ability to solve emergency transit, flight cancellations, facility failures, or immigration issues calmly and efficiently.
- Vendor Diplomacy: Exceptional negotiation skills tailored to the Nigerian corporate,