Supply Chain Officer at Field Intelligence

Job description

Do you want to help reshape the pharmaceutical value chain in kenya? Are you a data guru, with amazing attention to detail? Do you enjoy making things work and executing tasks at a high level? Shelf Life is hiring!

About the Role

Following a successful 12-months of service delivery in Nigeria, Field is expanding Shelf Life to Kenya and ultimately across East Africa. They are hiring a Supply Chain Officer to help run their Kenya operations. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a new team establishing and expanding the product in Kenya.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supply Chain Management
• Supply & Demand Planning: This involves using Field’s suite of proprietary tools to manage forecasting, demand, and supply planning per client as well as coordinate orders to ensure optimum inventory allocation
• Sourcing & Procurement: This entails coordinating competitive sourcing, ordering and requisition processes from a range of suppliers over various time horizons
• Inventory Management: This involves overseeing the routine, campaign and inventory, ensuring implementation of Shelf Life’s quality assurance protocols. It also means coordinating top-up process for client stock outs, ensuring rapid delivery response to ensure clients never run out of vital drugs
• Logistics Planning: This entails planning distribution runs and overseeing movement of goods to clients by ensuring adequate resources are available for deliveries
• Data Management: Maintain inventory ledger with all incoming and outgoing movements of Shelf Life stock. This includes helping to build and maintain a database of prices and other key data
• Client Management and Communications
• Support the onboarding of new clients recruited to the service
• Manage general client communications: transmission of invoices and delivery notes, client service information and feedback, ordering and service requests, payment prompts, advance service notifications, reminders and confirmations.

Desired Candidate Profile

Does This Sound Like You?

• A first degree in a relevant field (Supply Chain Management, Economics, or Procurement) will be a plus
• You have between 3 and 8 years of experience in Procurement and/or Supply Chain Management
• You have experience with basic finance
• You enjoy details. Until everything is organized and documented, you aren’t happy
• You are fluent in written and spoken English and Swahili
• You are great at customer-service
• You have excellent numerical skills
• Analytical skills are a huge plus
• Prior experience as Operations or Program support staff is desired
• You are a team player