Assistant
Operations Manager - Logistics
Nairobi
Job
Description: The
Sales Manager is responsible for growing the company’s logistics business in an
assigned territory, in accordance with corporate objectives
The
Sales Manager serves as the main sales contact point for prospects and the
sales account owner for customers assigned in their region.
Core
duties and responsibilities include the following.
- Respond
to day-to-day requests for information and special projects
- Work
closely with departments to provide optimum support for all distribution
clients.
- Coordinate
inventory allocations and key order fulfillment.
- Process
inventory transfer requests, coordinate special instructions with the
warehouse, provide clients with shipping confirmations, and track costs.
- Prepare
monthly charge-back reports for distribution inventory transfers and warehouse
expenses, including: fulfillment and shipping, warehouse
stickering/labeling, and special collation/packaging projects.
- Run
monthly inventory reports by client for inventory management purposes.
Forward monthly warehouse reports as needed.
- Update
production database with schedule information. Enter prices, dates and
title metadata into Oracle system.
- Assist
with miscellaneous Operations duties which could include the following:
Monthly freight billing, coordination of sales kit mailing, organizing
special handling projects at the the warehouse such as stickering or
carton labeling.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's
degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Transportation Management or
a related discipline.
- Five
years of operational supervisory experience in a service, transportation,
or security related industry.
- Or
any equivalent combination of training and experience.
Selection Criteria:
- Demonstrated
knowledge and expertise in management practices at a large public or
private corporations, including budgeting, planning and principles of
leadership and supervision.
- Demonstrated
knowledge of principles and practices associated with transit service
delivery and field operations supervision.
- Intermediate
skills to operate personal computer systems including Word, Excel,
Outlook, database applications and other software applications.
Demonstrated proficiency to accurately keyboard (type).
- Demonstrated
ability in employee and labor relations.
- Ability
to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Ability
to facilitate meetings, speak to individuals or groups, and present
information in a clear and logical
- manner.
- Ability
to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees,
management and the general public, including those from culturally diverse
backgrounds, the elderly, persons with disabilities and/or other
vulnerable populations.
- Demonstrated
ability to reach sound decisions in deployment of resources, under
pressure of conflicting priorities, and in emergency situations.
- Demonstrated ability in interpersonal and leadership skills, including collaborative problem-solving and process improvement techniques and strategies.
Qualified candidates to send their updated CVs in word format to recruitment@cdl.co.ke