Regional Store Coordinator, Rift Valley at Sun King (Formerly Greenlight Planet)

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Regional Store Coordinator, Rift Valley

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience2 - 3 years
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldProcurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain 

About the role:

  • The Regional Store Coordinator will oversee inventory management at the Company’s retail centres, extending to field-based agents. The role involves regular travel within the station region.

What you would be expected to do:

Retail centers day to day assistance

  •  Liaise with the warehouse team to ensure that inventory is readily available for sale.
  • Offer assistance to retail executives to ensure they meet their KPIs.
  • Liaise with the sales team to review retail centre executives on potential improvement areas.
  • Initiate requests for declaration signoffs for missing inventory
  • Report cases of inventory damages/ losses to allow for insurance claim to be initiated.
  • Initiate discussions revolving around new initiatives geared at ensuring retail centers are efficient and effective in services rendered.
  • Conduct regular inventory audits, whether scheduled or impromptu 
  • Review processes and controls existing to ensure they are optimized to reduce redundancies within the chain.
  • Will represent the department in all meetings scheduled with either internal or external stakeholders within the region that involve inventory management and retail center management.
  • Will conduct handovers from retail center executives to relievers and vice versa.
  • Will vet relievers to ensure that they meet the requisite qualifications needed to run the retail centers.
  • Will request for payment for relievers for days worked.
  • Sit in for interviews when required alongside with Human Resource during onboarding of new retail center executives.
  • Liaise with the sales team and marketing team to identify potential sites that might be considered as new retail centers.
  • Conduct regular checks on assets at the retail centers to ensure that they are in good working order.
  • Liaise with the Admin team to schedule repairs at the retail centers.
  • Liaise with the Admin team to engage landlords on any issues that might exist. 

 Order and inventory Management 

  •  Initiate inventory movements and requests from warehouse to retail centers
  • Liaise with the warehouse team to resolve any inconsistencies that come with deliveries done at the retail centers.
  • Liaise with retail center executives to ensure that inventory management standards are met, including but not limited to FIFO amongst others
  • Liaise with the warehouse and retail centers executives to provide packaging for products that are defaced.
  • Regular review of all processes currently in place aimed at achieving best inventory management practices.
  • Be on the lookout for any new trends and emerging trends that relate to the industry that can be implemented to increase efficiency.
  • Coordinate inventory reconciliation
  •  Validation of all products marked as obsolete and damaged that are to be returned to the warehouse.
  •  Engage field agents to periodically validate inventory holding

 Compliance

  •  Ensuring basic maintenance standards and compliance with health and safety regulations at all retail centers, include but not limited to ensuring permits and licenses are displayed.

Innovation

  • Be on the lookout for new trends within the supply chain field that will improve and enhance inventory management processes
  • Recommend to management new processes, need to revamp process to efficiently assist the day-to-day operations of the retail centres

You might be a strong candidate if you:

  • Hold a degree qualification preferably in Supply Chain Management, Statistics, or any Finance Related Field 
  • Have 2-3 years’ working experience in Finance, Supply Chain Management and/or Statistics.
  • Demonstrate knowledge in contract management.
  • Are able to work comfortably with and maintain large volumes of data in excel. 
  • Demonstrate knowledge and working experience with an ERP preferably SAP
  • Can multi-task and address contesting priorities.
  • Are goal-oriented and organized team player.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
  • Possess excellent verbal & written communication skills
  • Have the ability to work remotely under minimal supervision.

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

  • Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
  • An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
  • A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
  • Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

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Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Sun King (Formerly Greenlight Planet) on sunking.pinpointhq.com to apply

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