Job Opportunities at Orbit Chemical Industries Limited - 3 Positions

This is an ideal opportunity for a delivery oriented, team focused professional who has a broad understanding of product production. If you love autonomy and project ownership this role is perfect for you. Orbit provides the opportunity for training and rapid career advancement.

Detailed Responsibilities

Production Chain Management

• Monitor production workflow for multiple products to ensure timely and cost-effective completion
• Harmonize operational progression across divisions to maximize performance
• Manage production operations collaboratively with silo teams to increase efficiencies and obtain output information

Coordination & Planning

• Coordinate with division heads and relationship managers to obtain their support in various stages of the production cycle

• Forecast timelines and margins required for product development in consultation with Silos and production teams

• Identify, develop and implement real-time/long-term factory floor production improvement strategies

• Investigate and troubleshoot all division related issues by creating solutions to ensure project production continuity.

Communication

• Manage information flow from production, supply, and commercial divisions.

• Serve as the bridge between senior management and factory teams to enhance relationships and build trust

• Provide status updates through daily, weekly and monthly check-ins to support product order timelines

• Track and report on performance against production targets

Does this sound like you?

• Project Management background

• Production Planning & chain management experience (Preferred)

• Able to seamlessly engage with individuals of diverse seniority levels; excellent relationship building skills

• MS Office proficient

• Attentive to detail

• Problem solving skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Loves “getting hands dirty”,

• Fit, high energy individual able to transverse the factory floor daily

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This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious sales professional to work in a brand new division in a well established organisation. One who loves to work with little oversight in a team focused department. The department offers the opportunity for rapid growth. The successful candidate will undergo three months training on the Orbit Chemical Industries’ business.

Detailed Responsibilities

Fulfilment - account management

• Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders of the businesses within your portfolio; this is to effectively fulfill the strategic direction agreed upon between the Commercial Department’s senior leadership and the businesses
• Build relationships and coordinate with individuals within the organisation to obtain their support in various stages of the fulfilment process
• Proactively and appropriately manage the expectations of key stakeholders within your organisation and client businesses with respect to the fulfillment of forecast orders on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Leverage relationships built to mitigate and resolve, risks and issues; including debt collection

Optimise existing portfolio - consultative selling

• Understand the businesses with your portfolio to pre-empt client needs in line with Orbit Chemical’s ability to manufacture finished products
• Understand the businesses within your portfolio to identify additional partnership opportunities with respect to the manufacture of finished products

Expand existing portfolio - lead generation

• Identify, critically evaluate and rank leads; to focus on those with the potential to turn into sales
• Develop and present proposals to potential clients with the aim of closing a deal
• Propose new finished products or product adjustments based on failed leads and feedback from the market

Does this sound like you?

• Have minimum 4 years’ experience in B2B sales; FMCG preferred
• Have account and business relationship management experience
• Have experience in Kenyan markets
• Aligned to Orbit’s company mission
• Have an appreciation for a start-up environment, ‘roll-up sleeves’ attitude and entrepreneurial
• A critical thinker, adaptable, proactive, persistent, curious, detail oriented, challenges boundaries and delivery focused
• Have strong interpersonal, negotiation, project management and communication skills

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This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious sales professional who enjoys travelling and collaborating with individuals from different cultures. One who loves to work with little oversight in a team focused organisation. The department offers the opportunity for rapid growth. The successful candidate will undergo three months training on the Orbit Chemical Industries’ business.

Detailed Responsibilities

Expand existing portfolio - lead generation

• Identify, critically evaluate and rank leads; to focus on those with the potential to turn into sales
• Develop and present proposals to potential clients with the aim of closing a deal
• Propose new finished products or product adjustments based on failed leads and feedback from the market

Optimise existing portfolio - consultative selling

• Understand the businesses with your portfolio to pre-empt client needs in line with Orbit Chemical’s ability to manufacture finished products and individual components
• Understand the businesses within your portfolio to identify additional partnership opportunities with respect to the manufacture of finished products and individual components

Collaborate - account fulfillment support

• Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders of the businesses within your portfolio; this is to give input into the quarterly strategic direction sessions
• Effectively hand over the management of the client relationships and fulfillment of the forecast orders to the Relationship Managers
• Build relationships and coordinate with individuals within the organisation to obtain their support in various stages of the sales process
• Leverage relationships built to mitigate and resolve, risks and issues; including debt collection

Does this sound like you?

• Have 4 years’ experience in B2B sales; FMCG preferred
• Have account and business relationship management experience
• Have experience in non Kenyan markets; Sub-Saharan Africa experience a plus
• Aligned to Orbit’s company mission
• Have an appreciation for a start-up environment, ‘roll-up sleeves’ attitude and entrepreneurial
• A critical thinker, adaptable, proactive, persistent, curious, detail oriented, challenges boundaries and delivery focused
• Have strong interpersonal, negotiation, project management and communication skills