Job Openings at Moko Home and Living

The Role In Brief

Our Supply Chain team brings materials from around the world to our factory, where they’re crafted into furniture that make thousands of families happy.   Moko’s Senior Supply Chain Manager will grow our supply chain apace with the company’s product development and manufacturing plans.  You’ll manage and grow a strategic global supplier network and ensure systems and processes are in place to meet growing procurement needs.

Responsibilities

Lead Supply Chain Growth and Development

• Ensure supply chain systems, processes and team capacity are apace with company growth
• Proactively grow the company’s supplier network for key materials to mitigate risk and keep pace with growing demand; identify and attend relevant trade fairs and conduct overseas factory visits
• Keep up-to-date with global market changes relevant to our key product lines
• Develop sourcing plans to accommodate increasingly complex sales and manufacturing needs

Ensure Continuous Cost Optimization

• Regularly identify and evaluate opportunities for reducing costs while maintaining high level of quality
• Identify and evaluate new suppliers for existing products in search of enhanced value for money

Oversee the day-to-day Supply Chain Management

• Manage a small team responsible for global and local procurement, sourcing and import functions
• Ensure appropriate targets are in place and are being consistently met by the supply chain team

 Career Growth + Compensation

You’ll join the leadership team of one of East Africa’s most successful growth-stage companies, playing a key role in our development into a major enterprise.  You’ll learn first-hand how a thriving venture is operated, with opportunity to expand your skills and responsibilities as your team and our company grow.

We believe this distinct and rare experience is the most valuable benefit we offer new leaders who join our team.  In addition to this, you’ll earn a competitive salary and benefits package benchmarked against lean mid-sized companies.

Qualifications

• Sourcing and supply chain management experience coordinating a variety of suppliers
• Strong working knowledge of import/export practices and regulations
• Experience sourcing finished or semi-finished products; experience with contract manufacturing or sourcing for manufacture an advantage
• Strong people management skills and the ability to develop and manage key external relationships
• A well-developed analytical ability and high level of attention to detail
• Eagerness to join a quickly-growing organization and team

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The Role In Brief

Our Head of Ops & Supply Chain is responsible for scaling our supply chain and distribution to reach millions of customers.  We’re looking for a self-driven and analytical leader with the ability to direct and grow our operations team and systems toward this goal.   You’ll be excited to solve big problems like developing a hub-and-spoke distribution model for quick, cost-effective delivery to our customer’s homes.  You’ll be obsessed with order and efficiency, putting in place the systems needed to organize the work of your team as it expands.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a world-class distribution operation

• Turn a distribution operation that reaches hundreds of thousands of customers into one that reaches millions
• Develop and implement a hub-and-spoke distribution model which delivers the quality and reliability of our retail customers’ dreams
• Grow and streamline our existing nationwide delivery service which serves hundreds of small businesses
• Oversee an increasingly sophisticated warehousing system and ensure seamless operations as our SKUs grow

Expand our international supply chain

• Master a sourcing operation that spans dozens of suppliers in 14 countries
• Continuously scour the globe for higher quality and more affordable materials, enabling us to build the products of our customers’ dreams
• Coordinate our sourcing teams in Kenya and Mauritius in ensuring an efficient flow of goods to where they are needed
• Select the best vendors from across the world and guarantee quality of the goods they supply

Develop and lead a high performing team

• Invest in coaching and development of your team, taking advantage of opportunities to grow team members’ responsibilities
• Maintain a high-performance culture, setting ambitious targets and rewarding outstanding accomplishment

Implement and manage systems to effectively tackle increasingly complex work

• Find opportunities to develop and improve systems, delegate responsibilities to enable your team to handle more work with increasing complexity
• Identify and utilize key control points, allowing you to maintain quality and accuracy of the growing activities within your area of responsibility

Career Growth + Compensation

You’ll join the leadership team of one of East Africa’s most successful growth-stage companies, playing a key role in our development into a major enterprise.  You’ll learn first-hand how a thriving venture is operated, with opportunity to expand your skills and responsibilities as your team and our company grow.

We believe this distinct and rare experience is the most valuable benefit we offer new leaders who join our team.  In addition to this, you’ll earn a competitive salary and benefits package benchmarked against lean mid-sized companies.  You’ll also be awarded stock options, allowing you to participate in the value you create as a leader of our team.

Qualifications

• You are a strong leader, and you have at least 3 years’ experience managing individuals across different functional areas.  You have a proven track record of motivating and developing your direct reports.
• You have experience developing and implementing management systems within an organization, and value the structure and predictability they bring.
• You have managed key internal and external relationships in another organization and are effective and building and maintaining such relationships independently.
• You are an adaptable professional who has drawn energy from working in an environment of rapid growth and change.
• You thrive when you’re able to take initiative and do best in an environment where you are given high-level goals and the freedom and authority to achieve them.
• You are eager to take responsibility for a key team within our company and find the prospect of driving its rapid growth while improving results extremely motivating.
• You possess a strong analytical toolkit, and you frequently apply quantitative analysis to decision-making.

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The Role In Brief

Moko’s Finance and Administration Manager supports all of our teams as we work to put a smile on the faces of millions of customers.  This role is about leading our accounting, managing processes for serving our customers and employees, collecting and sharing data needed for key decision-making and helping us make the best use of our resources.  Our perfect match is just as excited about crunching numbers and improving financial controls as coaching a junior accountant through a new reconciliation or working with our production coordinator to manage overtime more effectively.

Responsibilities

Lead key accounting and finance functions

• Serve as the company’s chief accountant, managing accounting officers and taking overall responsibility for accuracy of all financial reporting and tax compliance
• Manage short-term cash flows, balancing inflows and outflows and making decisions around short-term investment and forex management
• Ensure adequate controls are in place to support judicious use of company resources
• Coordinate financial accountability and control across the organization – lead budgeting, ensure expenses are accurately tracked to cost centres, realize opportunities for reducing risk and cost
• Prepare monthly management accounts, payroll and statutory filings

 Drive planning, reporting, compliance and administration

• Work with the company’s directors to support company-wide financial analysis and planning
• Support development and reporting against key metrics across teams; prepare key investor reports
• Take ownership of key administrative functions including management of insurance, compliance and elements of HR – ensure strong processes and appropriate resources are in place

 Develop and lead a high performing team

• Invest in coaching and development of your team, taking advantage of opportunities to grow team members’ responsibilities and keep pace with company growth
• Maintain a high-performance culture, rewarding outstanding accomplishment
• Hire and coach new talent into your team in line with the company’s expansion strategy

Career Growth + Compensation

Moko invests in building the capacity and skills within our team. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship from the management team.  Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new roles opening up and opportunities in many functions. This results in fast career growth for those who are ready to take up the challenge.

Qualifications

• A strong command of accounting to IFRS standards and Kenya tax compliance
• A management skill set and passion for supporting team members to realize their full potential
• Excited by getting the details right and running efficient processes
• Eager to stretch functional experience beyond finance to support planning, reporting and administration across the organization
• Strong analytical skills and an advanced analysis toolkit including expertise in Microsoft Excel
• An initiative-taker, problem-solver and quick learner eager to work autonomously guided by regular feedback from the company’s senior leadership
• Hungry to take advantage of the development opportunities within a quickly-growing company