Senior Executive, Product Operations
ZUS Coffee
Position Responsbilities:
As a Product Operations (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 / launches / workflow 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.
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Partner with operations,
training, supply chain, quality assurance to ensure end to end readiness before product go-live and product off-boarding processes
- Participate in pilots and
new store formats to assess operational feasibility and process scalability
- Contribute to post launch
reviews, capturing learning and driving corrective actions
- Work
closely with leadership and key teams to align priorities, provide project visibility, and remove bottlenecks.
Product Process Optimization
- Analyze current product
preparation workflows and identify opportunities to streamline and reduce in-store complexity
- Develop, test and
standardize best practice SOPs for product execution and rollout, including but not limited to product launch management, own end to end product launch process and commercialisation timeline
- Collaborate with R&D
and other relevant teams to design products with operational feasibility in mind
- Build
and refine workflows that enhance collaboration, efficiency, and execution speed
Efficiency & Cost Optimization
- Work closely with cost of
sales and productivity data to identify efficiency gaps and improvement levers
- Recommend ingredient,
equipment or preparation changes that improve throughput and reduce labor or waste
- Support continuous
improvement loops post launch, leveraging feedback to fine tune execution
- Define
and track success metrics, ensuring projects / product launches deliver measurable business impact
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
- Maintain
detailed operational playbooks, SOPs and troubleshooting guides
- Track
and report performance metrics related to product execution (consistency, wastages etc.)
Qualification and Experience
- Background - experience in product
operations, Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) / F&B operational strategy or process improvement roles. Experience collaborating with R&D and operations teams to deliver process-aligned products
- Project Management Expertise – 3 - 5 years of experience
managing cross-functional projects in fast-paced environments (startup experience is a plus!).
- Can-Do Attitude – 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.
- Strong Communication &
Influence - Ability to work with different teams, manage expectations, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
- Execution-Oriented - You
move fast, prioritize effectively, and focus on delivering results.
- Process-Driven but Flexible
- You know when to introduce structure and when to adapt to evolving needs.
- Tech-Savvy & Data-Driven
- Comfortable using project management tools (Lark, Microsoft Project etc.),
and making data-backed decisions.
- Agile Mindset & Adaptability
– Embrace change, navigate ambiguity, and pivot quickly in response to shifting business needs.
- High Emotional Intelligence
(EQ) - You understand team dynamics and know how to build strong, productive relationships.
A Necissity, Not a Luxury
Skills
- Adaptability
- Agile
- Communication
- Process improvement
- Project Management
- Teamwork


