Nivea Warehouse Supervisor Job in Nairobi Kenya

Nivea Job Vacancy Announcement
 

Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor
 

Employment Type: Permanent
 

Location: Nairobi

Summary: Successful candidate will have the overall responsibility of managing all warehouse, logistics and transport (inbound and outbound) operations within East Africa ensuring timely, cost effective and service optimized material flow of goods.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages the flow of goods through the warehouse, including receiving, unloading, put away, picking, packing, loading and dispatch of goods in line with customer orders and ensuring timely, cost and service optimized processes.
• Leads the creation of daily resource plans in order to meet customer requirements.
• Manages the in-sourced, on site warehouse facilities and third party contractors ensuring high operational and health and safety standards are maintained within agreed budgets.
• Implements, in conjunction with the Quality Control & Regulatory Affairs Manager, health and safety processes standards for warehousing and distribution that is in-sourced ensuring prescribed standards are met.
• Manages the execution of relevant health and safety training and risk assessments, as defined by the Quantity Control and Regulatory Affairs Manager.
• Manages, in conjunction with the security services provided by the industrial estate, the security and general housekeeping of the in-sourced warehouse site during operational hours ensuring the safety of employees and company is optimized.
• Delivers an efficient stock management system on behalf of Beiersdorf Customer Supply that is fully integrated within the workplace and aligned to SAP, and ensures the identification, agreement and implementation of solutions to eliminate the source of internal stock related queries.
• Manages all auditing / site visits appertaining to stock and facilities activities ensuring processes meet required standards and business needs.
• Develops and manages all inbound and outbound delivery processes and associated 3rd party activity to maximize on time customer order fulfillment at optimum cost. Works closely with global procurement to ensure cost effective and reliable provisions of transport as part of the cyclical tender process.

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills. Able to express ideas effectively and actively listen to others
• Able to influence, challenge and advise colleagues
• Able to challenge existing work methods and display willingness to try new approaches
• Project Management
• Relationship Building
• Leadership
• Strong Customer Orientation
• FMCG Warehouse and Distribution Management
• Experience gained in a cross functional commercial environment

Requirements: 

The successful candidate should possess the following qualifications:

• Degree holder
• Professional Qualification in Supply Chain/Logistics or Masters degree
• Ideally SAP WM

How to Apply:
 

Interested candidates to submit their application together with their curriculum vitae indicating current position, current salary and attaching copies of relevant testimonials to contacts.nairobi@beiersdorf.com so as to reach the Human Resource Office on or before 2 December 2014.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.