Warehouse Assistant Job in Kenya

Warehouse Assistant 

Sokowatch is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By connecting small merchants to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply chains and provide services previously unavailable to informal businesses. Sokowatch aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no wholesalers or banks necessary.

Thousands of retailers across East and West Africa use Sokowatch’s mobile ordering and delivery platform to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time.

We’re looking to grow our team with highly talented and motivated employees who are excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.

Role: Branch Warehouse Assistant, reporting to the Branch Warehouse Manager

Sokowatch is searching for warehouse assistants to be based in the Kisii branch. Your role is to help in daily warehousing activities as allocated by the Branch Warehouse Manager. These roles range from, stock issuance, transfers, offloading, and reconciliation.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Stock Loading-Allocate Van/Truck in loading zones in a manner that eases issuance and ensures transparency.
  • Ensure stock issuance is done against Delivery notebook and no excess or less stock issued, guide agents on best practices for stock arrangement in their Van/Truck
  • Stock Transfers-Present all Delivery Notes for system transfer, do system stock transfer against Delivery note, verify transfers against variance page.
  • Ensure all replenishment done after morning loading is reflected in the system transfer.
  • Stock Cash Reconciliation-Assist agent to well understand requirements for a successful reconciliation.
  • Confirm on agents’ reported counts, carry out daily Agent stock reconciliation, Carryout daily agent cash reconciliation, Follow up with an agent to know the cause of excess or short.
  • Supplier deliveries-Receive delivery notes and invoices and present them to the Warehouse managers
  • Take part in offloading whenever required, receive products against delivery note, report any excess, less or damaged delivered stock to warehouse manager.
  • Ensure all deliveries are stored in respective warehouses in an organized manner
  • Stock Taking-Carryout weekly physical stock take as required by the warehouse manager.
  • Ensure counts are accurate and in selling units, file the reported counts for reference.
  • Assist in Van/Truck stock take whenever required.
  • Help in data entry, attention to detail, integrity, work ethic, willingness to learn, capacity to thrive in a high-pressure environment, time-keeping.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will possess:

  • 1 year of experience in warehouse
  • Highly organized and able to store items efficiently
  • Pays attention to details and monitors the quality of inventory
  • Able to work independently
  • Able to multitask

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