Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects.
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Responsibilities
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers, engineers and other stakeholders.
- Plan and conduct user research and, interpret data and qualitative feedback
- Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
- Facilitate the Safaricom’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas.
Qualification
- Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
- Portfolio of UX design projects showcasing your process and project achievements.
- Expertise in one or more UX software such as Adobe XD, Figma, InVision, Balsamiq, Zeplin and the like is a must.
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
- Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and other stakeholders.
- A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
- Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders.
- Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
- Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
- Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
Please Note:
- A portfolio review presentation is required to interview for this role. Your presentation should communicate your work experience, and demonstrate your design and communication skills.
Last Date to Apply: Feb 23, 2022
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Brief Posting Description
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Supply Chain Enablers, will be responsible for the management of environmental, social and economic impacts in the supply chain, and the encouragement of good governance practices by suppliers, throughout the lifecycles of goods and services.
Job Responsibilities
- Integrate Safaricom sustainability standards within the day-to-day SCM business practices and the supply base
- Lead, develop and implement relevant SCM standards, tools and processes
- Coordinate and support supplier community to integrate sustainability into their operations
- Sustainability training for suppliers to raise awareness of responsible supply chain management practices and help strengthen the suppliers CSR culture
- Lead, coordinate and monitor supplier sustainability development assessments
- Lead, Develop and continuously improve internal and external sustainability programs
- Drive good governance, transparency and engagement with partners
- Develop a system for tracking, monitoring and reporting on sustainability/UNGC/SDG targets
- Conduct supplier assessment by executing continuous evaluation of risk exposure through supplier self-assessment / fact finding / audits accordingly
- Proactively prepare and provide required information
- Regular reports to SCM and Corporate Responsibility Department
Qualifications
- A graduate with a degree in any relevant field from a recognized university
- Professional certification in Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)
- Have at least 3 – 4 years’ relevant work experience in a supply chain field
- Good knowledge of MS office
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
Note to Applicants
As part of the interview process, external candidates should prepare the following documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage based on your performance in the interviews/assessments.
- An updated CV with contacts of three referees, 2 who must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional field.
- Kenyan Certificate of Good Conduct (Less than 1 year old) or a receipt of the same from the CID pending release of the hardcopy document.
- Clearance certificate from a reputable Credit Reference Bureau (CRB).
- University Diploma/Degree Certificate/ Letter of completion from university in case you have not received your diploma/degree certificate.
- National ID/Passport.
Last Date to Apply: Feb 24, 2022
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Brief Posting Description
Reporting to the Senior Manager-Purchasing, will be responsible for adding value to the organization by effectively managing the purchasing cycle, ensuring that procurement policies and procedures are complied with, negotiating and managing supplier contracts and end-to-end tendering process as well as ensuring that in all circumstances Safaricom secures the best service/product for the best economical price within the Outsourced services section.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide support in Category sourcing strategy development, supply base rationalization and implementation
- Perform / support contract analysis and risk evaluation; cost reduction; pricing analysis; and target price evaluation/negotiation for outsourced services
- Negotiate and facilitate implementation of long term agreements and / or partnerships within the outsourced services
- Maintain knowledge database of supplier’s markets, sub-categories, capabilities, technology, cost analysis and key performance indicators within the outsourced services section
- Develop and fully implement long term supply agreements for key strategic high value items and services for the outsourced services section
- Develop, Implement and Maintain procurement Plans for outsourced services section of purchasing
- Develop and fully implement supplier catalogues/pricelists within the ERP system
- Drive category Management within supply chain with emphasis on category buying
- Ensure harmonization of prices of goods and services procured by the company from various suppliers at different times.
- Develop and implement cost reduction targets in liaison with budget holders and suppliers
- Monitor the performance of supplier to ensure they deliver quality goods & services as per contract/Purchase Order.
- Enforce supplier Payment Terms that are, cost favorable to the company
- Use category strategies to drive cost management
- Drive Total cost of ownership approach to price evaluations
- Ensure adherence to policies and procedures
- Develop Purchasing SLA with all Internal & External stakeholder
- Evaluate suppliers to ensure consistently high performance and value-addition
- Manage all tender documentations/processes.
- Ensure contract renewal/tendering processes is started at least 2 months before expiry of the current one.
- Manage the sections budget –monitor expenditure against approved budget for outsourced services l section
- Lead, develop and motivate staff to ensure that set objectives are met and exceeded in line with senior management and customer expectations on goals achievement and service delivery
- Achieve 100% CIPS Certification for Staff
Qualifications
- Degree in Technology, Engineering, Business or similar qualification
- At least a Graduate Diploma Qualification in Supply chain management
- At least 5 years’ experience in procurement all with responsibility for purchasing processes incorporating category sourcing strategy development, tender documentation and tendering process, tender analysis and procurement performance management in an environment leveraging ERP capabilities for procurement-related functions and processes.
Note to Applicants
As part of the interview process, external candidates should prepare the following documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage based on your performance in the interviews/assessments.
- An updated CV with contacts of three referees, 2 who must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional field.
- Kenyan Certificate of Good Conduct (Less than 1 year old) or a receipt of the same from the CID pending release of the hardcopy document.
- Clearance certificate from a reputable Credit Reference Bureau (CRB).
- University Diploma/Degree Certificate/ Letter of completion from university in case you have not received your diploma/degree certificate.
- National ID/Passport.
Last Date to Apply: Feb 24, 2022
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Brief Posting Description
Reporting to the Head of Department – Supply Chain Management, will be responsible for adding value to the organization by effectively managing the purchasing cycle, ensuring that procurement policies and procedures are complied with, negotiating and managing supplier contracts and end-to-end tendering process as well as ensuring that in all circumstances Safaricom secures the best service/product for the best economical price.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide support in sourcing strategy development, supply base rationalization and implementation
- Perform / support contract analysis and risk evaluation; cost reduction; pricing analysis; and target price evaluation/negotiation
- Negotiate and facilitate implementation long term agreements and / or partnerships
- Maintain knowledge database of supplier’s markets, sub-categories, capabilities, technology, cost analysis and key performance indicators
- Develop and fully implement long term supply agreements for key strategic high value items and services for the company
- Develop and fully implement supplier catalogues within the ERP system
- Drive category Management within supply chain with emphasis on category buying
- Ensure harmonization of prices of goods and services procured by the company from various suppliers at different times.
- Develop and implement cost reduction targets in liaison with budget holders and suppliers
- Monitor the performance of supplier to ensure they deliver quality goods & services as per contract/Purchase Order.
- Enforce supplier Payment Terms that are, cost favorable to the company
- Use category strategies to drive cost management
- Ensure adherence to policy and procedure
- Develop all Purchasing SLA with all Internal & External stakeholders/customers
- Evaluate suppliers to ensure consistently high performance and value-addition
- Contribute to the development of the company tendering policy, process and procedures by providing periodical reviews
- Manage all tender documentations.
- Ensure contract renewal/tendering processes is started at least 2 months before expiry of the current one.
- Manage the sections budget –monitor expenditure against approved budget
- Lead, develop and motivate staff to ensure that set objectives are met and exceeded in line with senior management and customer expectations on goals
Qualifications
- Degree in Technology, Engineering, Business or similar qualification
- At least a Graduate Diploma Qualification in Supply chain management
- At least 5 years’ experience in procurement all with responsibility for purchasing processes incorporating category sourcing strategy development, tender documentation and tendering
- process, tender analysis and procurement performance management in an environment leveraging ERP capabilities for procurement-related functions and processes.
- Excellent understanding of category sourcing strategies
- Excellent skills in development of tender documentation and tendering processes
- Excellent understanding of procurement performance management tools
Note to Applicants
As part of the interview process, external candidates should prepare the following documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage based on your performance in the interviews/assessments.
- An updated CV with contacts of three referees, 2 who must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional field.
- Kenyan Certificate of Good Conduct (Less than 1 year old) or a receipt of the same from the CID pending release of the hardcopy document.
- Clearance certificate from a reputable Credit Reference Bureau (CRB).
- University Diploma/Degree Certificate/ Letter of completion from university in case you have not received your diploma/degree certificate.
- National ID/Passport.
Last Date to Apply: Feb 24, 2022
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DESCRIPTION
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for of Senior Officer-Supply Chain Supplier Qualification in the Finance Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Brief Posting Description
- Reporting to the Senior Manager-Supply Chain Enablers, will be responsible to manage the company’s supplier qualification process by ensuring that only suppliers who meet Safaricom’s set requirements are entered into the supplier database.
Job Responsibilities
- Active segmentation of existing suppliers from qualification perspective.
- Maintenance of supplier pre-qualification master data
- Initiate supplier qualification process by sending out pre-qualification form to identified suppliers
- Receive and review pre-qualification documents
- Assess supplier documents for compliance with the set standards
- Communicate outcome of pre-qualification to the prospective suppliers
- Storage/periodic retrieval of all assessed supplier documents in the archives
- Periodic qualification of existing suppliers
- Initiate periodic re-qualification to existing suppliers
- Communicate outcomes of qualification to the existing suppliers
- Identify and manage risks associated with supplier pre-qualification
- Maintain and update operational risk register for all black listed suppliers
- Produce accurate and timely reports in accordance with the Supply Chain metrics framework.
- Prepare and Share weekly/Monthly reports to key stakeholders on pre-qualification/compliance/supplier risks
- Prepare Complete, Accurate and Timely Issue log report.
- Prepare adhoc reports as per agreed SLA which can assist highlight any unusual behavior
- Verify and initiate creation of new vendors upon request by purchasing or internal customer.
- Review, identify duplicate suppliers and update the supplier master data for all purchasing Suppliers
QUALIFICATIONS
- A graduate with a degree in any relevant field from a recognized university
- Professional certification in Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS).
- Have at least 2-3 years’ relevant work experience in a supply chain field
- Good knowledge of MS office
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience managing external stakeholders
Last Date to Apply: Feb 24, 2022
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DESCRIPTION
We are pleased to announce the following Position for Machine Learning Engineer in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Description
Reporting to the Big Data & CVM Lead, the position holder will design, build, deliver and/or optimize machine learning systems. This entails performing statistical analysis to resolve data problems and enhancing model accuracy and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect and build solutions and tools for the big data platform
- Mediate and coordinates resolution of software project deliverables using agile methodology
- Develop pipelines to ingest data into the big data platform based on business demands and use cases
- Develop analytical platforms that will be used to avail data to end users for exploration, advanced analytics and visualizations for day-to-day business reporting
- Provide guidance and advise to technology teams on the best use of latest technologies and designs to deliver a best-in-class platform in the most cost-effective way
- Develop automated monitoring solutions to be handed over to support teams to run and operate the platform efficiently
- Automate and productionize data science models on the big data engineering platform
QUALIFICATIONS
- BS or MS in computer science or equivalent practical experience
- At least 2-3 years of coding experience in a non-university setting.
- Experience in Object Oriented development
- Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
- Experience in collecting, storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data.
- Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Storm or Spark-Streaming
- Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with NoSQL databases, such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB
- Understanding of big data technologies: Cloudera/MapR/Hortonworks
Last Date to Apply: Feb 24, 2022
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