Procurement and Supplies Officer

We are an agricultural State Corporation specializing in tea and forestry production.
We urgently seek to recruit a dynamic individual to fill the following position:-

Job Title: Procurement and Supplies Officer
Job Profile:

Reporting to the Managing Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for

* ensuring constant availability of required supplies and materials at the competitive value or terms and as per approved corporate policies and procedures.
* Developing and reviewing procurement policies and procedures in liaison with the corporation Board and other relevant committees.
* Formulating supply policy management to ensure that the corporation’s supplies goals and objectives are met.
* Reviewing the provision, procurement, stock-holding and stock control policies on a progressive basis
* Ensuring that supplies accounting and other stores procedures are followed and updated as necessary.
* Coordinating purchases requirements from users departments.
* Developing and reviewing of purchasing policies and procedures to keep up with changing economic trends.
* Procuring various materials and other supplies for the corporation at the most competitive prices in accordance with approved corporation procedures.
* Supervising, appraising staff and identifying their development and training needs.
* Liaising with departments in organizing for specification of goods and services for procurement.
* Preparing budget and ensuring effective control.
* Overseeing the effective storage and issuance of procured goods.
* Overseeing disposal of obsolete stocks or goods in liaison with relevant offices.

Persons Profile

* Must be a holder of a university degree in a business related field.
* Must posses a Diploma in Purchasing and Supplies Management.
* Must be a member of a professional body.
* Must be a person who is market oriented, cost consciousness and quality mindedness.
* Must be a person with excellent interpersonal skills, unquestionable integrity, team player and able to work with minimum supervision.
* Must have a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

Interested qualified candidates should submit their applications enclosing a detailed Curriculum Vita, day time telephone contacts, current gross salary, names and contact of three referees, copies of relevant professional and academic certificates and testimonials to the address below, not later than 29th October 2010.

DN/A 744
P. O.Box 49010, GPO 00100
Nairobi.

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