Openings at Syngenta

Description

Accountabilities

• Manage stock from receiving, storage and dispatch to relevant users
• Receive all items centrally based on approved purchase orders
• Ensure good control of all materials under your custody. Maintain accurate and up to date records to control the same
• Facilitate stock-takes in the most efficient manner
• Keep the store neat and tidy
• Comply with external stakeholders reporting such as KEPHIS, KFC and any other bodies.
• Strict adherence to all HSEQ requirements.
• Good staff management. Ensure good rotation programme and staff should not work over-time unless where unavoidable.
• Efficiently manage dispatch of items from store to relevant users. All users to be notified when items they ordered for are received in the store, and same issued out in compliance with laid down procedures.

Qualifications

Critical Knowledge:

• Knowledge of stores procedures.

Critical Skills

• Diploma in Store Keeping or Purchasing and Supplies.
• SAP application

Critical Experience

• Monitor stock levels of all common farm inputs i.e., fertilizers, chemicals for spray, PPE, etc
• Ordering of farm inputs against up-to-date stock levels.
• Ordering of Non-common farm inputs done through prior approval by Department Head.
• Facilitate dispatch of orders to approved suppliers; unless inputs are not available ad hoc ordering will be done outside approved list.
• Follow up with supplier to ensure timely delivery of inputs to the Kenya Cuttings Store.
• Proper stock ordering to eliminate errors in packaging/double ordering.

Essential Competencies

• Decisive
• Demonstrate ability to take prudent action with little oversight.
• Trusted
• Track record for building trust and reliability to deliver required service and products
• Team-oriented
• Ability to work in a team while providing the desired direction.
• Results-oriented
• Ability to meet financial deadlines.

Other Behaviors Critical For The Role

• Ability to work under pressure
• Proven Integrity