Supply Chain Manager Kenya Jobs.

Supply Chain Manager Kenya Jobs.
Our client is a global multinational Food & Beverage company, worldwide leader in most of its category portfolio. With global or local specific brands and products, the core focus is to meet the diverse needs and preferences of consumers all over the world.

Operating in Africa for more than 80 years, the Company has 5 markets within, the Equatorial African Region (EAR) being amongst them. The regional operations are co-ordinated from Nairobi, Kenya to offer shared service across countries in Central, East, part of Southern Africa including the Island markets and Horn of Africa.

With this regional expertise, the Company aims at enhancing the business potential of this region, which is seen as an important source of future growth, and bring it up to the level of performance that the Company experiences in other regions of Africa and the world.

By reinforcing business and product categories focus, making operations more efficient, developing cross fertilization or enhancing peoples’ knowledge transfer and empowerment, this shared service expertise is expected to accelerate growth and meet the company’s high ambition for the Region.
Our client continues to be viewed as one of the leading global companies in Corporate Social Responsibility, particularly in the developing world. Being a committed leader in environmental performance, they ensure that natural resources are preserved and that waste management enjoys much attention in all operations worldwide. The company is an equal-opportunity employer with robust talent management policies, and systems. They value and reward individual and team contributions to business results.

Job Summary
Reporting to the Country Manager, the Supply Chain Manager will ensure development of effective and efficient Supply Chain operations to achieve business objectives; ensure implementation of the EAR Supply Chain strategy; develop and manage demand and supply planning; customer service, warehousing and distribution, including the purchasing staff.

Responsibilities
* Develop local Supply Chain department and implement EAR strategies and supply chain best practices.
* Ensure effective and efficient supply in line with legal regulations by monitoring and managing demand & supply planning processes to produce accurate demand plans and efficient supply plans to achieve customer service level target and minimizing distribution costs.
* Optimize working capital and ensure fresh stock.
* Ensure optimum processing of orders and invoices. Manage business relationships ensuring legal compliance of products imported into the country
* Build relationship with local authorities to facilitate business operation. The Manager will ensure maximum utilization of government incentive on Exports; maximize opportunities for preferential trade blocks and ensure market competitiveness within the Kenya cluster.
* Implement Inter Market Supply Planning best practices and system.
* Coordinate Supply Chain aspects of inter-market supply process for both import and export when applicable.
* Monitor and report infiltrations/ exfiltrations within the Kenya cluster.
* Establish and ensure collaborative and efficient relationship with Sales, Marketing, Technical and Finance functions.
* Manage teams in line with Company strategy and undertake continuous improvement by implementing, monitoring and analyzing Key Performance Indicators.
* Key deliverable will include setting staff objectives, conducting performance appraisals, succession planning and managing administrative tasks.

Requirements
* Degree in Economics/ Supply and Purchasing/ Engineering
* Minimum of 5 years experience in Supply Chain
* Working knowledge of demand and supply planning and/or exports and/or customer service is essential
* Knowledge of general business, management processes and Supply Chain Best Practices
* Sound knowledge of existing regulatory affairs, customs clearance procedures, inter-markets supply operations.
* 2-3 years experience of people management
* Self confident with a strong ability for decision making under pressure
* Ability to work well in an unstructured developing environment

How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business Friday, 31st December 2010.

Adept Systems
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Web: www.adeptsys.biz

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