Healthcare Company Drug Supply Chain Officer Job in Kenya

Sep 5, 2017

Duma Works is recruiting for a Drugs Supply Chain Officer for one of our clients; an award-winning private company that is transforming healthcare in Kenya by building a chain of outpatient medical centers that make extremely high-quality health care accessible to every family and offers unparalleled patient experiences.
 

Role Description: Your job will revolve around ensuring the Medical Centers are adequately stocked with the drugs that our patients need, building and maintaining supplier relationships, responding to emergency drug requests, maintaining great communication with the Operations Manager and Team Leaders and most importantly being a GREAT team mate to everyone.

 

The position offers you the opportunity to:

• Bring your ideas and suggestions to work each day and see them create real change


• Grow into more senior leadership roles


• Work with an amazing, smart, fun and hard-working team to change the face of healthcare in Kenya!

Responsibilities:

• Order fulfillment: You will be tasked with preparing drug orders, coordinating logistics within an expected TAT of 2 days and ensuring a minimum order fulfillment of 95% within 3 days.


• Stock management: You will do monthly stock counts/spot checks on time and record the counts accurately after which you will generate variance reports. Inter-branch stock transfers.The Finance department will depend on this information to prepare monthly financial reports.


• Supplier relations: You will ensure we have mutually beneficial relationships with our suppliers by processing invoices on time, handling payment issues as soon as they arise and maintaining an open communication channel.


• Strategic thinker: You will help the department think of sustainable solutions to various issues such as getting more suppliers, doing market research, pricing, introduction of central warehousing, reviewing our current formulary etc.


• Creativity and innovation: You will devise ways to ensure our Drugs supply chain works seamlessly.


• We’re a startup – get ready for anything!

Requirements:

• College Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology or Clinical Medicine from a reputable institution


• Have at least 1 year in inventory management specifically drugs


• Willing to work long hours including weekends


• Experience in inventory management specifically drugs of a wide range of brands is a must


• Good Knowledge of MS office.


• Excellent in MS Excel


• Strong written and oral communication skills


• Great organization skills


• Available full time

How to Apply

Send your Cover Letter and detailed CV to apply@jobs.dumaworks.com marking the subject as “3034”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 3034 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.

Deadline for receiving applications: Tuesday, 12 September 2017

N.B.* You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test.

If you apply and don’t meet these minimum qualifications, we won’t be able to forward your application to the employer.