What you would be expected to do:
Area Warehouse Inventory Management
- Coordinate daily and weekly stock reconciliation regionally between the systems and physical stock in the retail centers.
- Coordinate reconciliation of out-of-warranty stock from the retail centers to the Central Warehouse Ndola.
- Ensure that inventory movement from the retail centers is as per International Inventory Management Standards—FIFO.
- Ensure that stock in the retail centers is tagged and well stacked as per International Inventory Management Standards.
Systems Inventory Movements
- Initiate stock transfers with retail centers as per approval of the Operations Manager
- Ensure that inventory issued to field agents from the retail centers is tagged correctly on the inventory management systems
- Audit the inventory management systems to ensure that all transactions are effectively booked. This includes but is not limited to returns to the Central Warehouse
Field Inventory Management
- Coordinate stock recovery initiatives from the agents within station region.
- Ensuring allocation of stock to field agents is per maximum holding limits as communicated by the Operations Manager.
- Ensuring that inventory levels in the field of station regions reflect selling trends and field agent productivity.
Training and Mentorship
- Ensure that Retail Center Executives are well trained on Inventory Policies.
- Coordinate onboarding of assistant Retail Center Executives when there are openings.
- Ensure that Retail Center Executives are well trained on the use of Inventory Management Systems.
Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Have a degree qualification preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business
- Administration, Data Science or any Finance Related Course from a Premier Institution.
- Have a 2-3 years’ experience in data processing, inventory planning and management.
- Have an Excellent MS Excel and Google Sheets data processing and presentation skills.
- Have the ability to work comfortably with and maintain large volumes of data.
- Have excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Have the ability to work remotely under minimal supervision.
- Always on the road managing stocks across the country.
What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
