Risk & Loss Control Manager Job in Kenya

Risk & Loss Control
Manager 

Apollo
Agriculture is the commercial farming platform that helps small-scale farmers
maximize their profits. Apollo’s ML-powered credit models and automated
operations technology unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market,
starting in Kenya. With optimized financing, high-quality farm products, and
digital advice, Apollo farmers are already more than doubling their farm
profitability. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations
experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired
for USD $1 Billion), Google, Capital One and One Acre Fund. We
value evangelical pursuit of mission with a pragmatic approach, humility
in the face of challenge, active discussion of disagreements, and considerate
listening.

 

Apollo
is seeking an experienced Risk and Loss Control Manager  to anticipate,
manage and prevent risk in our Logistics and Distribution function. This will
be accomplished by building, and managing the technology, products, processes
and systems needed to ensure we are always aware of and ahead of our
risks.  

The
Logistics and Distribution team is responsible for managing the Apollo
Agriculture distribution network, connecting our customers with farming inputs
by ensuring a seamless, uninterrupted supply of high quality inputs across our
network of warehouses and agro dealers. 

You
will work closely with all members of the Logistics and Distribution team to
deeply understand our operations, and build efficient and effective risk
assessment, prevention and management across our product delivery. You will
also work to support thinking around strategic growth and overall improvements.
Your work will be essential to the success of our goals. You will report
directly to the Logistics and Distribution Lead.

Responsibilities

• Insurance: You will monitor, analyse
  and work to identify potential risk exposure. You will work with the
  insurance teams to identify areas that require loss control interventions.


• Security: You will implement risk
  prevention measures around physical security and carrier security. You
  will therefore identify, recommend and implement systems to minimize
  and/or prevent loss of inputs and company assets.


• Regulatory Compliance – External
  compliance:
  You will be charged with ensuring regulatory compliance across our
  Logistics and Distribution entities. You will ensure that we can
  coordinate and communicate with relevant authorities to acquire relevant
  approvals and stay compliant.


• Regulatory Compliance – Internal
  compliance: You
  will be responsible for ensuring compliance with internal policies, processes
  and procedures for both employees, carriers and Agrodealer partners and
  implement corrective measures.


• Warehousing and Inventory
  management: You
  will drive performance across the network of storage locations. You will
  work closely with the warehousing team and oversee the accurate recording,
  tracking, and overall processing and handling of inventory. This will be
  both physically and through the manual backup as well as the ERP system.
  You will be responsible for the smooth running of their daily work, as
  well as supporting thinking around strategic growth and improvements. Your
  work will be essential to eliminating shrinkage across the network. You
  will develop policies and train staff in loss prevention, reduce
  shrinkage, and report mechanisms.


• Develop and implement safety
  policies and strategies and Emergency response protocols: You will develop ways to
  detect safety issues and security violations, and put programs in place to
  prevent repeat occurrences. You will build systems that ensure we can maintain
  a better than average loss experience by ensuring we have safety
  policies/strategies in effect on a day to day performance management of
  the team and distribution partners. You will train the team on safety
  protocols and enforce a safe and results oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience in Retail loss
  prevention, security, and inventory management.


• Audit experience within a supply chain environment
  will be an added advantage.


• Have previous experience in a fast paced environment,
  preferably in a  startup context.


• Have world-class interpersonal, networking and
  influencing skills. Success in this role will require you to nurture
  relationships internally within your team and with leaders of other teams,
  and to also deeply understand the workings and needs of Apollo’s staff,
  customers, external stakeholders, and channel partners.


• Are skilled at interpreting and leveraging
  insights from data to highlight areas of concern. The ability to extract
  useful, actionable information from data, along with strong
  problem-solving skills, will be essential for success in this role. 


• Have the ability to understand business objectives
  and align team goals in service of these objectives. 


• Are able to build and manage a growing team
  efficiently and that represents Apollo’s values. 


• Are proactive and self driven to ensure the smooth
  running of daily operations and consistency of strategies and procedures
  across board.


• Are able to handle claims and incidents with a
  collected mind and ensure we can have corrective action as soon as
  possible.


• Are up to date with market changes and able to
  review and update our practices in accordance with all relevant
  legislation.


• Have an aptitude for technology, and can
  continuously review and improve  the tools and technologies that help
  the business deliver, manage, measure and improve our loss prevention
  measures  across our Logistics and distribution activities.


• Are able to design and implement  inventory
  tracking systems to optimize inventory control procedures.


• Are able to minimize inventory loss by
  incorporating best supply chain practices.

We

• Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious
  people who are dedicated to serving our customers. 


• Make magic happen to solve hard problems and
  always come with solutions when challenges arise. 


• Are comfortable taking risks that can result in
  radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and
  improve. 


• Are considerate listeners and take the time to
  deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when
  we disagree. 


• Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent,
  collaboration and growth. 


• Take pride in our work and share the
  responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment. 


• Back up our talk with a competitive compensation
  and benefits package and challenging projects. 


• Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and
  respect. 


• Are excited to hear from you!

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