Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, January 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• Manage our day-to-day supply chain (logistics centres + fleet) ensuring optimal inventory levels are kept within the system to keep supporting sales. VF currently operates 3 LCs in Kenya and a fleet of 11 trucks
• Setup and drive in country feed logistics to support our different farms in Kenya and the other geographies we expand into in East Africa
• Set KPIs and targets for departments, measure progress against these, identify and implement improvement plans focusing on service delivery and cost optimization
• Design the future of our supply chain to support our multi-market and multi-country approach. We plan on opening at least 2 new LCs including in a new country and expanding our fleet capacity to support our expansion plan
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
• Enforce best practices across our processes to ensure that spoilage is kept as close to 0%
• Manage a team of 6 QC analysts and associates and ensure they are adequately trained to execute their tasks
• Design and integrate quality control into our feed logistics process
INTERNAL CONSULTING
• Oversee our team of internal consultants as they support all parts of our business by implementing a variety of projects (for example: report automation, process redesign and formalisation, process
• Identify improvement projects company wide, scope them and drive the team to implementing them

QUALIFICATIONS and SKILLS:
• 7+ years of experience with a blend of Operations Management or Management consulting with a focus on Ops related projects.
• Capacity to understand complex supply chains and challenges, break them down into problems that can then be tackled and resolve them
• Attention to detail and thrive for constant operations improvement to ensure consistency in delivering value to other parts of the business, day in, day out
• Experience in managing multiple teams across different functions
• Ability to thrive working collaboratively with both senior colleagues and more junior ones, solving problems independently, and in a fast-paced environment
• A successful candidate will possess a strong work ethic, ability to work in teams, intellectual curiosity, and ability to structure and solve problems
• Master’s Degree in Operations Management, Supply chain, Logistics, or any relevant engineering degree
• MBA from top programme a +

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
• Status: Full time
• Benefits included
• Vacation Benefits
• Salary: Competitive, based on experience

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
To apply, please send a maximum 2 page CV to: recruit@victoryfarmskenya.com cc nchew@victoryfarmskenya.com
Please note any CV over 2 pages wouldn’t be read.

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