Demand & Supply Analyst at Nairobi Hospital

REF/DSA/02/19

Reporting to the Procurement and Stores Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:

Main Duties

• Monitor the shelf life of stores, materials and support elimination of goods expires and obsolescence as well as achieves cost reduction through high stock turn over in Hospital stores.
• Generate demand forecasts and plans for medicines and consumables.
• Evaluate supplier lead times and establish opportunities for lead time reduction.
• Evaluate stock levels, available storage space, demand, lead time and other critical parameters to optimize deliveries of medicine and other consumables.
• Ensure and maintain adequate stock levels by planning and optimising stocks.
• Establish and track metrics to access quality, cost and delivery performance.
• Review Vendor managed inventory frameworks and implemented continuous.
• Promptly resolve internal customer queries and issues to ensure excellent service delivery to final customer.
• Work in coordination with general stores, Pharmacy stores and procurement to ensure optimal supply of medicines and other medical consumables.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Statistics Engineering or any Social Science.
• 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Strong analytical and planning skills.
• Good interpersonal and communications skills.
• High level of integrity.
• Conversant with Navision, Microsoft Packages, Creation of Dashboard and Reports, ERP application software and good report writing skills.