General Manager

3 hours ago

Century City, South Africa Altwork Full time

**General Manager (Group Operations Lead)**
**Location**: Cape Town, South Africa (ALTWork Global Hub)
**Monthly Salary**: (Negotiable based on experience)

**About Us**:
Kosmas Enterprises is a dynamic investment company focused on acquiring and scaling businesses across sectors including real estate, technology, and food & agribusiness. Through our Cape Town-based ALTWork Hub, we manage centralised operations for our international ventures. With multiple acquisitions in progress, we are now seeking a **General Manager (Group Operations Lead)** to head up and integrate our operating system, oversee group functions, and drive cross-business optimisation.

**The Role**

As General Manager, you will serve as the executive lead for all back-office and operational activities across the group. This includes overseeing finance, HR, admin, and business development functions across our ventures. You will play a critical role in post-acquisition integration, process implementation, and ensuring that our ventures are structured for scale, compliance, and performance.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide executive-level oversight of ALTWork’s operating system and manage department leads across:

- Finance
- HR & Recruitment
- Sales, Marketing & Tendering
- Admin and Enterprise Coordination
- Lead integration and onboarding of newly acquired businesses into the group structure.
- Design and enforce internal systems for operations, reporting, and cross-entity coordination.
- Work closely with UK-based leaders and portfolio company managers to ensure cohesive group strategy execution.
- Identify and implement technology and structural efficiencies across operations.
- Drive recruitment and performance oversight of support functions based in Cape Town.
- Review performance across businesses and support strategy adjustments with leadership.

**What We’re Looking For**
- Proven experience in a **general management, COO, or operational leadership** role.
- Track record of successfully **integrating acquisitions**, scaling operations, and managing diverse teams.
- Strong understanding of **finance, HR, and administrative systems**.
- Confident managing remote and distributed teams across international markets (UK, Africa).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills; comfortable reporting into the board.
- Experience in private equity, corporate development, or portfolio operations (preferred but not essential).

**Why Join Us?**
- Lead the build of an innovative and efficient operating system from the ground up.
- Collaborate with a dynamic, growing business with global ambitions.
- Competitive salary and performance-based growth opportunity.
- Opportunity to shape the future of multiple high-impact ventures from a central hub in Cape Town.

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- general management, COO, or operational leadership role: 5 years (required)

Work Location: In person

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