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Location:
 Mesa de los Santos, Bucaramanga, Colombia

Reports to:
 COO

Type:
 Full-time | On-site

Language:
 Spanish (fluent) ; English (intermediate | advanced)

About Allied

Allied Corp. is a global supplier of pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis, headquartered in the United States with cultivation operations in Colombia. The company combines Canadian cultivation and quality expertise with a cost-efficient Colombian production model to serve highly regulated medical markets.

Allied has established and certified its cultivation site under CUMCS-GACP and has demonstrated the ability to produce cannabis at scale in compliance with European Pharmacopeia and TG93 standards. The company has completed multiple exports and secured long-term commercial contracts across Europe and Australia.

Allied is now focused on scaling production, improving consistency, and executing contracted demand reliably, with a clear path to profitability.

Role Overview

The Facility & Operations Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating all on-site operations. The role exists to bring structure, accountability, and execution discipline to the facility, ensuring teams understand what is expected, why it matters, and how success is measured.

This is a hands-on leadership role, not an administrative function. The role leads a cross-functional on-site organisation of 50+ employees across production, post-processing, security, procurement, and quality, and covers four core areas: site leadership and people management, oversight of production execution, delivery of capacity expansion and infrastructure projects, and implementation of operational performance management in coordination with Quality.

Key Objectives (2026)

The goal is simple: deliver consistent, high-quality product and provide the best possible experience for customers. Key 2026 objectives include :

• Expand capacity through three (3) new 1,500 sqm greenhouses
• Deliver post-processing and infrastructure upgrades aligned with GMP
• Improve production consistency and output to meet contracted demand
• Build a performance-driven organisation supported by reliable data and reporting

Key Responsibilities

1.     Site Leadership & People Management

• Act as the senior operational authority on site
• Coordinate execution across Production, Quality, HR, Security, Admin, Purchasing, and Logistics
• Set clear priorities, expectations, and standards of behaviour aligned with company objectives
• Lead teams through a culture of accountability and performance management
• Reduce internal noise and politics through structure, ownership, and follow-through

2.     Operational Execution (Oversight & Accountability)

• Oversee planned execution across cultivation, harvest, and post-processing
• Coordinate harvest schedules, post-processing and delivery readiness
• Adjust staffing levels, shift structures, and productivity in line with output targets
• Work with the production team to improve batch consistency, yield and reliability
• Ensure teams own outputs, timelines, and quality results
• Identify bottlenecks and drive corrective actions

3.     Projects & Capacity Expansion

• Lead greenhouse construction and infrastructure upgrade projects
• Coordinate contractors, timelines, and site readiness
• Track progress against defined milestones and budgets
• Ensure projects are delivered audit-ready

4.     Performance-led organisation, Reporting & Digitalisation

• Design and maintain clear, actionable operational reports (weekly/monthly)
• Track core KPIs across production, labour, yield, losses, and timelines, and delivery performance
• Drive digitalisation and automation of core operational processes to improve efficiency, control, and end-to-end traceability and ensure reliable end-to-end data capture from cultivation through shipment
• Report weekly and monthly to the COO on performance, risks, and corrective actions

Candidate Profile

• 5+ years in operations or facility management within agriculture, industrial, pharmaceutical or production environments
• Proven experience running on-site operations and leading teams, with accountability for delivery and performance
• Strong project management capability, with experience planning and delivering operational and/or infrastructure projects using structured reporting, KPIs, and process improvement / digital tools
• Highly structured, hands-on, data-driven, and execution-focused leader; a direct and fair communicator able to lead cross-functional teams effectively in a Colombian operating context
• Intermediate to advanced English proficiency required for reporting, meetings, and coordination with headquarters and international clients
• Strong Plus:
   Understanding of cannabis cultivation and processing, and/or prior experience in the cannabis industry and/or regulated, quality-driven environments (GACP, GMP, pharma, food, or similar)

What Success Looks Like

• Clear site leadership and reduced internal noise
• Reliable operational reporting with clear ownership and accountability
• Improved output and batch consistency
• Projects delivered on time and to standard
• A focused, accountable, performance-driven site