Logistics and Procurement Manager
General Tasks
- Collaborate with other departments to
integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer
sales, order management and company finance
- Supervise the work of logistics specialists,
planners, or schedulers
- Import / export / forwarding related tasks
- Direct inbound or outbound logistics
operations, such as transportation or warehouse activities, safety
performance, or logistics quality management
- Coordinate comprehensive logistical or reverse
logistical functions for product life cycles, including distribution,
internal allocation, delivery, recycling, reuse, or final disposal of resources
- Confirm accuracy of declaration and
authenticity of warehousing and import entries as well as all other
supporting documentation.
- Take ownership of all customs related issues,
advice key milestones, timelines, and cost implication as well as identify
potential risks.
- Internal / external compliance and improvement
tasks
- Plan or implement improvements to internal or
external logistics systems or processes
- Monitor product import processes to ensure
compliance with regulatory or legal requirements
- Develop risk management programs to ensure
continuity of supply in emergency scenarios
- Conducts Root Cause Investigations for all
injuries and incidents, ensuring consistent discipline and retraining
- Documents problem fixes and provides
instructions to dispatch/service should problems recur
- Supplier / procurement tasks
- Negotiate with suppliers or customers to
improve supply chain efficiency or sustainability
- Direct distribution center operation to ensure
achievement of cost, productivity, accuracy, or timeliness objectives
- Negotiate transportation rates or services
- Analyze the financial impact of proposed
logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or
mixes, or carriers
Minimum requirements:
- Diploma/Degree in Procurement/Logistics
- At least 2 years’ experience in similar jobs
- Ability to take leadership and own complex
customs issues and be able to work with Government officers to come up
with clear way forward
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Exceptional integrity and a strong sense of
ethics
- Ability to effectively communicate timelines
for both internal and external customers
- Experience of Budgets and Financial controls
is preferred
Finance Manager
Responsibilities:
- Ensure development, proper interpretation,
implementation and review of financial regulations and procedures to
enhance internal controls;
- Ensure provision of quality and timely
accounting services; process payment vouchers for suppliers payments,
travel advance requests and other payments request.
- Ensure preparation of supporting information
for annual audits;
- Maintain an inventory on all bank accounts of
the organization and their approved signatories;
- Oversee authorization of payments, signing of
cheques, identification of suitable cheques signatories and setting
financial limits as appropriate;
- Plan and budget for the division;
- Supervise and coordinate staff development and
performance appraisal in the division.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounts, Finance,
Commerce or any other business related course.
- 2 years working experience
Human Resources & Administration
Manager
Responsibilities:-
- Manage recruitment process
- Organize and conduct new employee orientation
- Management and updating of personnel files
- Conduct exit interviews and share feedback
with Senior Management
- Provide Human resource advice and formulate
and implement human resources policies and procedures
- Manage the staff medical scheme and other
relevant insurances.
- Ensures work place safety; clean and conducive
working environment for all Staff, clients and visitors
- Oversees the regular servicing, repairs and
proper usage of office equipment by users
- Oversees day to day administration processes
for effective support to operations and service delivery.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource; Business
Administration Major in Human Resources
- Member of accredited HR professional body
- 2 years’ relevant experience in Human Resource
Management.
Sales Manager
Responsibilities:
- Lead preparation and scheduling for quarterly
business review meetings with all regional representatives to review
progress on strategic plans.
- Review weekly market intelligence reports from
the regional representatives. Ensure there are set priorities for the
month and that there is progress on the same.
- Review weekly sales report together with the
regional representatives and ensure they are all aligned.
- Receive weekly sales report with action plans
for any individual region that is behind target from individual regional
representatives.
- Prepare monthly regional penetration and sales
uplift report.
- Ensure the performance management system for
each member of staff is duly filled with appropriate actions taken for
those below the target.
- Effectively manage all staff under the
national sales manager including the Area Sales managers, senior sales
representatives, retail sales representatives.
- Ensure development of close relationships
including regional key account staff and other stakeholders relevant to
the success of the Consumer business.
Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration,
Commerce/Management with a bias in Sales and Marketing;
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience of National
Branch Operations
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to
quickly understand and process operations data;
- Excellent verbal and written communication
skills;
- Proven team work and leadership skills, and
the ability to successfully build and manage a team and mentor all staff
and agents in order to support professional development;
- Organized, systematic and process oriented
with good administrative skills;
- Flexible and resourceful; the ability to work
under minimal supervision,travel and willingness to be responsible for a
varied set of tasks that will support the company’s growth and expansion;
Technical Manager
Roles and Responsibilities
- Must ensure teams follow the correct
procedures, policies and documentation requirements across project phases
- Provide direction and technical expertise
- Able to make quick decisions and solve
technical problems to provide an efficient environment for project implementation
- Identify resource and equipment requirements,
efficient capacity planning
- Must provide technical training to teams when
required and serve as a technical mentor to team members
- Ensure standard operating procedures and
project guidelines are in place
- Task allocation and performance evaluation of
team members
- Project scheduling and resource management
- Make presentations on project status, present
monthly and annual reports to senior management
- Interview candidates and hire resources
- Conduct performance reviews of team members
and identify areas of improvement, give feedback
- Estimate project budgets, coordinate with
finance department for funds and plan for purchasing of equipment and
hardware in a cost-effective way
- Provide an efficient working atmosphere to
project teams and ensure objectives are met within stipulated time.
Requirements:
- Diploma/Degree in a technical field
- 2 years experience in similar role
- Flexible: role requires extensive travel
within Kenya
Trainers (2)
Responsibilities:
- Identifying training and development needs
within an organization through job analysis, appraisal schemes and regular
consultation with business managers and human resources departments;
- Designing and expanding training and
development programmes based on the needs of the organization and the
individual;
- Considering the costs of planned programmes
and keeping within budgets as assessing the return on investment of any
training or development programme is becoming increasingly important;
- Conducting appraisals;
- Producing training materials for in-house
courses;
- Managing the delivery of training and
development programmes
Requirements:
- Experience in technical and sales training
- Ability to develop training manuals.
- 2 years experience in similar role
- Flexible: role requires extensive travel within Kenya
If you meet the above requirements
send your detailed CV with the subject as the job title to
bfpjobs2016@gmail.com by latest 29th February 2016.