Tuskys
Job Title: Category Manager – Home Entertainment
Job Title: Category Manager – Home Entertainment
Job
Description
Overall
Purpose of the Job: A successful category manager
contributes to the profitability of each store by increasing the volume of
products that are sold within the category, and improving the speed of
inventory turnover within the category.
Key Responsibilities
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Providing category buyers with
customer focused insights regarding the product and category so to achieve
successful buying plans.
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Often work closely with buyers to
expand successful product lines, and implement successful exit strategies. In
liaison with category buyer; is responsible for setting competitive pricing
points, and adjusting the pricing to increase sales and clear out stagnant
items from inventory.
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Develop, execute, and evaluate
category specific strategies and business plans to deliver mutually agreed upon
results. Effectively communicate strategies and initiatives to senior
leadership.
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Planning and driving category sales
budgets
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Develop innovative consumer centric
on-shelf merchandising solutions along with creative off-shelf programs and
promotions grounded in consumer data.
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Oversee the inventory management of
product life cycles, including promotion purchases.
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Responsible for managing inventory
and for effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize the
profitability of the inventory flow.
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Effectively leverage data to analyze
daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales results to help understand if
specific strategies and tactics are delivering the intended results.
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Assume leadership role in developing
and communicating category business plans and tactics to all functional areas.
Develop assortment plans to support the category strategy and objectives and
drive store execution.
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Determining both local and overseas
product trends and converting these into sales
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Ensuring all products meet legal and
statutory obligations
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Design and lead category promotions
both monthly and seasonal, including assortment and product mix to deliver
sales and profit objectives and ensure the department’s financial objectives.
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Support internal customers by
proactively responding to store inquiries/needs.
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Perform quarterly range review.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration or related field.
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Diploma in sales and marketing or any
other relevant diploma.
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Minimum of 5 years’ experience with
2years in retail industry of FMCG firm.
Work Related
Skills
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Good communication skills
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Excellent planning and organization
skills
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Good customer service skills
Job Title: Bakery & Deli Team Leaders
Job Description
Overall Purpose of the Job: Provide overall leadership to the bakery team,
responsible for all aspects of daily operations including planning, quality
assurance and customer care.
Key Responsibilities
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Build a positive work environment
with outstanding teamwork, mutual respect, and exceptional morale.
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Ensure housekeeping standards are
achieved.
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Ensure that the recipes are followed
in the established proportions and communicate any scale up or scale down of
batch sizes for verification.
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Follow through to make sure that the
methodologies and production processes are strictly observed during the
production of all the products.
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Schedule the production plans to make
sure that the targets are achieved.
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Guide the sales team to ensure that
there is proper handling of the products after baking to avoid damages.
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Maintain products quality by focusing
on the key critical control points to make sure that the final products meets
the required standards.
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Use product presentation guidelines
to ensure that the products are well and neatly arranged in the glass displays
and shelves.
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Plan the shifts in a way that will
ensure continuity in production and service.
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Report all the indiscipline cases to
management.
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Communicate and review the sales
targets with the team on a weekly basis.
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Guide the teams in proper machine
handling during usage.
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Schedule daily and weekly clean-up of
equipment.
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Report breakdowns promptly and ensure
that repairs are conducted satisfactorily.
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Keep a schedule and coordinate all
equipment service.
Inventory Management
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Recommend changes in product Menu
based on market changes, customer demands and sales/margin reports.
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Raise inventory requisitions to
direct suppliers and DC.
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Ensure that inventory received from
DC and directed supplier is posted same day.
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Manage and control outlet inventory
levels through the Hospitality module.
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Prepare stock management reports
(direct supplies, stock-takes and accountability of any variances thereof,
stock-damages/returns).
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Generate opening and closing stock
records from system and verify with physical stock daily.
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Ensure correct stock rotation
procedure, minimize wastage and correct recording of wastage.
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Ensure production plan are followed,
record /posted.
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Raise IDT requests in the system and
generate IDT reports for review and sign off by double checkers and Branch
Manager.
Person Specifications
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Bachelor of Food production or any
other related field.
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Diploma in Food & Beverage.
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Minimum KCSE – C Plus
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At least one year working at the Deli
or Bakery.
Skills
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Good communication
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Multi-tasking skills
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Well organized, excellent planning
and organization skills
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Team player
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Computer literacy.
Job Title: Inventory Controller
Job Description
Overall Purpose of the Job: To manage inventory through the use of a
computerized database system to maintain adequate levels of stock to meet daily
distribution demands while minimizing excess supply.
Key Primary duties and responsibilities
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Implement improvement processes and
systems to optimize inventory, minimize costs and maximize working capital.
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Ensure that all item codes are active
and correctly captured in terms of cost price, selling price, description,
warehouse code and unit of measure.
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Ensure that daily stock adjustments
are correctly processed.
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Creation of entire inventory
replenishment threshold procedures.
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Ensure integrity and accuracy of the
stock management system.
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Conduct Physical wall-to-wall Stock
Takes on a monthly basis.
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Conduct Cycle Count Stock Checks as
agreed with Supervisor.
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Daily update of stock issues to Shop
floor &production and Stock Receipts from Shop Floor, Production areas e.g.
Deli section and Suppliers in ERP System.
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Reporting monthly on slow moving
stock and redundant stocks in terms of quantity, values and their requisite
remedial action points.
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Reporting monthly on Inventory
levels.
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Manage control measures to ensure
mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies are highlighted, addressed and
resolved.
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Provision of inventory shrinkage
reports.
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Any other duties as may be assigned
by the supervisor.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in business
operations, logistics, mathematics, or related field
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Diploma in IT or related field
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Minimum of 1 year of related
experience in retail, wholesale, warehousing, or logistics
Work Related Skills
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Excellent oral and written
communication skills
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Attention to detail.
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Ability to coordinate and work in a
team environment.
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Strong organizational and time
management skills.
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Proficient with computers and other
standard office technology
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Familiarity with SAP enterprise
resource planning software
How to Apply
Qualified
candidates should send their application (CV and Cover letter) to
Recruitment-Enquiry@tuskys.com ;
Quote
“Inventory Controller “on the email subject.
Application
deadline is Friday August 17th, 2018, at 5:00pm.
Late
applications will not be considered.
