Job Description
Reporting Relationships:

• Functionally reports to: Head, Finance and Accounts
• Administratively reports to: Head, Finance and Accounts
• Supervises: Warehouse Supervisor

Job Objective(s)

• To oversee all store operations to ensure an uninterrupted supply of products

Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare central store and outlets stock-level reports
• Create and enforce a short turn-around time for processing of requisition and purchasing orders
• Liaise with distributors and wholesalers
• Oversee assessment of inventory turns, receiving and shipping orders, warehouse space allocations
• Monitor and control allocation of company resources for effective, efficient and timely product delivery
• Ensure that delivered products conform with order specifications
• Control inventory investment and loss
• Take numerical inventory of merchandise supplied to the outlets.
• Coordinate inventory items dispatch for prompt delivery of product to outlets.
• Coordinates labeling of product to be distributed to branches.
• Receives out of stock inventory from outlets and document.
• Receives faulty goods from Customer care and report to Head of Department for further action
• Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.
• Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas in order to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
• Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.
• Examine and inspect stock items for defects, reporting any damage to line Manager.
• Prepare and maintain records and reports of inventories, shortages, shipments, expenditure and goods used or issued.
• Compile, review and maintain data from purchase orders, requisitions, and other documents
• Determine sequence and release of back orders according to stock availability.
• Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Inventory level/cost
• Customer satisfaction index
• Timeliness of delivery of goods to outlets
• Frequency of exhausted stocks.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree /  HND qualification with at least 12 years work experience.

Required Competencies:
Knowledge:

• Store keeping
• Distribution processes
• Inventory management
• SAGE pastel
• Accounting procedures Skills
• IT skills
• Execution
• Time management skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills