About Us:
Sokowatch is transforming communities across
Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By
connecting small shops to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply
chains and provide services previously unavailable to informal
businesses. Sokowatch aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no
wholesalers or banks necessary.
Thousands of retailers across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda use Sokowatch's mobile ordering and delivery platform to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time. We’re looking to grow our team with highly talented and motivated employees who are excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.
ole: Warehouse Assistant
Reporting to: Branch Warehouse Manager
Sokowatch
is searching for a stellar warehouse assistant to be based in Arusha.
Your role is to help in daily warehousing activities as allocated by the
Branch Warehouse Manager. These roles range from, stock issuance,
transfers, offloading and reconciliation.
Recommended:
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Stock Loading-Allocate tuk-tuks in loading zones in a manner that eases issuance and ensures transparency.
- Ensure stock issuance is done against Delivery notebook and no excess or less stock issued, guide agents on best practices for stock arrangement in their tuk-tuk
- Stock Transfers-Present all Delivery Notes for system transfer, do system stock transfer against Delivery note, verify transfers against variance page.
- Ensure all replenishment done after morning loading is reflected in the system transfer.
- Stock Cash Reconciliation-Assist agent to well understands requirements for a successful reconciliation.
- Confirm on agents reported counts, carryout daily Agent stock reconciliation, Carryout daily agent cash reconciliation, Follow up with agent to know the cause of excess or short.
- Supplier deliveries-Receive delivery notes and invoices and present to the Warehouse managers
- Take part in offloading whenever required, receive products against delivery note, report any excess, less or damaged delivered stock to warehouse manager.
- Ensure all deliveries are stored in respective warehouses in an organised manner
- Stock Taking-Carryout weekly physical stock take as required by the warehouse manager.
- Ensure counts are accurate and in selling units, file the reported counts for reference.
- Assist in tuk-tuk stock take whenever required.
- Help in data entry, attention to detail, integrity, work ethic, willingness to learn, capacity to thrive in a high-pressure environment, time-keeping.
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Requirements:
The successful candidate will possess:
- 3+ years of experience in warehouse
- Highly organized and able to store items efficiently
- Pays attention to details and monitors the quality of inventory
- Able to work independently
- Able to multitask
Role: Branch Warehouse Manager
Dar es Salaam, TZ | Full-Time | Supply chain
Sokowatch is searching for a stellar warehouse manager to be based in Dar es Salaam. They will undertake all aspects of a warehouse manager for Sokowatch in the branch. The primary goal of this position is to monitor and optimize inventory in the warehouse.
Location: Dar es Salaam
Reports to: Country Warehouse Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
Requirements:
The successful candidate will possess:
Dar es Salaam, TZ | Full-Time | Supply chain
Sokowatch is searching for a stellar warehouse manager to be based in Dar es Salaam. They will undertake all aspects of a warehouse manager for Sokowatch in the branch. The primary goal of this position is to monitor and optimize inventory in the warehouse.
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Reports to: Country Warehouse Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the supervision and management of branch level warehouse team
- Responsible for the development and compliance of agreed-upon warehouse standard operating procedures across all warehouse functions (eg. loading, stock reconciliation, cash reconciliation, storage, stock counts)
- Responsible for the management of inventory across all branches. Ensuring each branch is not over/under- stocking on any SKU.
- Responsible for managing the communication flow between branch level warehouse managers and Kenya finance team with regards to timely payment for LPOs.
- Responsible for managing the communication flow between branch level warehouse managers and Supplier procurement teams to ensure timely delivery of requested LPOs.
- Responsible for the tracking and reporting of branch level agent shorts, inventory, and LPOs
- Responsible for the development of branch-level warehouse team budgets (eg. budget for additional personnel, storage capacity, parking capacity, offloading capacity, stock forecasting)
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The successful candidate will possess:
- Proven work experience as a warehouse manager for 2-3 years
- Deep knowledge of and proven track record implementing Good Warehouse Practices (Housekeeping, bin management etc)
- First-hand experience with robust inventory management systems e.g. SAGE, SAP B1, Pastel etc
- Demonstrate know how on best practices on master data clean up, goods receipt / issue, landed cost calculation and stock reconciliation
- Proven ability to implement processes and improvement initiatives
- Qualification in logistics or management
- Leadership skills and ability to manage staff
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Keen to details especially in interpreting supply chain numbers.
