Procurement Manager, Finance Manager, HR & Admin Manager, Sales Manager, Technical Manager and Trainers Jobs in Kenya

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.