Jobs Kenya

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  • Finance controller

    Finance controller

    Main duties:
     
    Reporting to Lesaffre Kenya Manager, and functionally to the Regional Finance Director, you will:
     

    Carry out the financial processes and the internal controlling of the entity
    Participate in the preparation, review, control of the monthly / annual closing in coordination with the local accounting company
    Carry out the IFRS reporting in the group tools and formalize a monthly reporting to the MEA region
    Be Sage administrator
    Product dashboards to follow up the activity of the entity
    Ensure, in collaboration with the accounting company, of the right social and tax declarations
    Participate in building the forecast and budget of the entity (including the HR part)
    Write processes and make ad hoc studies: production costs analysis, margin analysis, forecast based on corrected budget…
    Define and implement an action plan for the improvement of the working capital requirement, follow up of the payments (suppliers, clients)
    Follow up the cashflow plan of the entity. Work together with trade finance manager Africa if needed.
    Lead the payments processes (payroll, suppliers etc.) and the collection process in coordination with the sales team
    Participate to the Expenses notes process. Collect the sheet/receipt. Check the figures. Reimburse the staff.
    HR admin tasks in coordination with the HR Manager: carry out the payroll (with the support of the accounting company), prepare the employment contracts, register the employee on the medical insurance, organize mandatory medical examinations, make the headcount reporting
    Be Lesaffre Kenya IT contact. Working closer with local IT Service provider and group IT

    Qualifications

    Graduated in Business Administration or Finance, you have at least 10 years of experience in finance
    You master Office 365
    Experience with Sage is preferred
    Your communication skills, your rigor, your attention to details, your autonomy, your sense of confidentiality and your analytical skills will be necessary to achieve your duties.

    Apply via :

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  • Production Manager

    Production Manager

    Job Description
    Lesaffre Kenya, a recent entity within the Lesaffre Group, produces Baking ingredients and sells yeast and ingredients. Reporting to Lesaffre Kenya manager, you will be responsible for organizing the day-to-day production operations and you will guarantee the proper implementation of raw material purchasing planning and the manufacture of finished goods. You will be responsible for the optimization of production costs and for maintaining the industrial equipment while complying with safety regulations, staff working conditions and environmental standards.
    Your main responsibilities will be:
    Production management

    Establishes daily production forecasts based on quantitative production targets & Sales forecasts.
    Organizes production orders & Production Team planning to ensure OTIF orders availability
    Guarantees the conformity and safety of the manufactured products.
    Ensures and controls the monitoring of external services,
    Develops dashboards for monitoring production, finished products and raw materials
    Ensures the monitoring of the consumption of ingredients in compliance with the technical ratios established in the budget and investigates the causes of any discrepancies. Implements corrective actions.
    Make proposal for improvement in process flow, equipment and working environment

    QEHS
    You will manage the QEHS officer and provide the necessary support to allow QEHS compliance of our operation and manufactured goods including:

    Developing safety culture 
    Ensuring required standards of health and safety are maintained in the production area at all times
    Following-up a Health & Safety Reporting with KPI’s 
    Following-up the Site security with the external company
    Guarantying the availability of the results of controls, measurements ant tests 
    Being involved in the choice of raw materials suppliers
    Ensuring that product recipes are in accordance with the formulas
    Ensuring that non-conformities and customer complaints are dealt with
    Implementing the necessary certifications/licenses/permits required

    WAREHOUSE

    Manages the warehouses to ensure the adequate stock levels and the right storage conditions 
    Supervises the inventory & stock reporting  
    Anticipates, forecasts and follow-up Raw material & Packaging supply

    MAINTENANCE

    Ensures that industrial equipment and buildings remain in good working conditions.
    Validates the maintenance intervention plans carried out through an external company & monitors the cost of maintenance

    MANAGEMENT
    You will directly manage the production team including organizing the schedule, leading briefing meetings, participating in recruitment, conducting annual appraisals…
    BUDGET

    Proposes to Lesaffre Kenya Manager technical investment projects (CAPEX) for the improvement of production processes and organization.
    Proposes the operating budget (production, quality, maintenance) and monitors it within the limit of the allocated amount.

    REPORTING

    Ensures the feedback of data and comments for the month-end closing (production, safety, quality, purchase etc.) and upon request
    Set-up a weekly reporting to Lesaffre Kenya Manager 

    PURCHASING

    Communicates a clear and accurate raw material needs to the Purchasing 
    Supervises raw material & Packaging Supply with the Purchasing   
    Is involved with suppliers’ audit.

    Qualifications

    Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in food processing / agro-industrial technology or a similar field
    Knowledge on bakery products is a plus

    Skills:

    Excellent communication skills and experience in management
    Ability to work as a team, to set goals, solve problems
    Adaptable, open minded and willing to learn
    Time-management ability, result oriented
    Familiar with project management
    Knowledge in quality culture, safety culture, lean culture
    Very good analytical with ability to manage priorities
    A dynamic and active person, with the willingness to take on workloads and the ability to meet professional challenges.
    Good computer skills (Office 365, SAGE)

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  • Business Development Executive

    Business Development Executive

    Market Knowledge:

    Establish a data base of clients and potential clients: Craft Bakeries & Industrial Accounts
    Get to know the potential of each of the 2 segments and the main competitors market shares
    Sell directly to the identified accounts, provide support for thedistributors sales forces and evaluate their performance
    Visit yeast and ingredients users regularly to identify needs and any potential problems.
    Identify new bakeries opening and anticipate their needs
    Competitive intelligence: know the competitor products, their prices and identify new products.
    Master the technical characteristics of Lesaffre product range in collaboration with our Area Master Baker.

    Commercial Development:

    Participate in building a better market readability and a good commercial responsiveness
    Identify the customers technical support needs, share them to the area manager and to the Master Baker, and follow up the evolution of assistance missions
    Reach the targets defined with the Area Manager and share the challenges faced
    Use the sales support tools to upgrade your sales approach
    Canvass every day the new bakeries and share the digits
    Direct the new customers to the right products, capable of providing the best service
    Guarantee Lesaffre products quality image on your market
    Report & Follow-up the clients claims and make sure to deliver a reply within a reasonable time frame.

    Reporting:

    Share weekly visit checklist and establish a formal monthly report
    Regularly update data base on the CRM software

    Qualifications

    With a business background, you have field experience as a commercial supervisor or zone manager for at least 5 years.
    Knowledge of the BtoB Bakery segment (Craft and industrials)
    Autonomy and able to work at distance
    Transparency and integrity
    Human relation skills, diplomacy, good listener, field person
    Ability to analyse and summarise
    Toughness, taste for challenge and negotiation
    English / Swahili languages

    Apply via :

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  • Supply & Sales Administrator

    Supply & Sales Administrator

    Reporting to the General Manager, you will be responsible for sales administration, importation and exportation activities in compliance with the local legislation, the Lesaffre Group guidelines and the Africa Sales strategy. You will:
     

    Manage all activities related to the sales administration, importation and exportation of finished products and raw materials, including the coordination and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and transport companies
    Establish and transmit quotations to customers
    Confirm orders to the customers
    Record sales orders: entered in the ERP after checking the elements
    Establish and transmit the acknowledgment of receipt of the order
    Turn delivery notes into invoices
    Deal with disputes with an after-sales service in your scope of work
    Book transport and organize expeditions
    Monitor transport and deal with anomalies in relation to service providers
    Manage customer orders, coordinate stocks and monitor deliveries
    Remind customers in the event of late payment in collaboration with finance and in accordance with the related procedure
    Internal coordination with all departments (sales / factory / finance)
    Place orders with international suppliers and group entities
    Organize transport (road, sea, air) according to Incoterm
    Manage relations and negotiations with freight forwarders
    Establish all import documentation, prepare the import files according to the local customs rules
     

    Qualifications
     
    Qualification / Experience
     
    Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in business administration, or international trade and import/export
    Working experience of at least 5 years in a similar position, ideally in a multi-faceted position.
     
    Skills
     

    Very good analytical with ability to manage priorities
    Broad sense of method and organization, with the ability to plan the work and to be multi-skilled
    Ease of communication and interpersonal relations, both internal and external and at all levels
    A dynamic and active person, with the willingness to take on workloads and the ability to meet professional challenges.
    Tenacious and persistent in achieving objectives
    Good computer skills (Office 365) and knowledge of an ERP
    Good knowledge of Kenyan custom regulations
    Good knowledge of incoterms
    Financial competences would be ideal
    Ability to manage multiple tasks

    Apply via :

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  • Business Development Executive

    Business Development Executive

    Lesaffre Kenya is a recent entity within the Group. Reporting to the Area Sales Manager, you will contribute to sales development of yeast, baking ingredients, bread improvers and to optimize the profit margin.
    Market Knowledge:

    Establish a data base of clients and potential clients: Craft Bakeries & Industrial Accounts
    Get to know the potential of each of the 2 segments and the main competitors market shares
    Sell directly to the identified accounts, provide support for the distributors sales forces and evaluate their performance
    Visit yeast and ingredients users regularly to identify needs and any potential problems.
    Identify new bakeries opening and anticipate their needs
    Competitive intelligence: know the competitor products, their prices and identify new products.
    Master the technical characteristics of Lesaffre product range in collaboration with our Area Master Baker.

    Commercial Development:

    Participate in building a better market readability and a good commercial responsiveness 
    Identify the customers technical support needs, share them to the area manager and to the Master Baker, and follow up the evolution of assistance missions
    Reach the targets defined with the Area Manager and share the challenges faced
    Use the sales support tools to upgrade your sales approach
    Canvass every day the new bakeries and share the digits
    Direct the new customers to the right products, capable of providing the best service
    Guarantee Lesaffre products quality image on your market
    Report & Follow-up the clients claims and make sure to deliver a reply within a reasonable time frame.

    Reporting:

    Share weekly visit checklist and establish a formal monthly report
    Regularly update data base on the CRM software

    Qualifications

    With a business background, you have field experience as a commercial supervisor or zone manager for at least 5 years.
    Knowledge of the BtoB Bakery segment (Craft and industrials)
    Autonomy and able to work at distance
    Transparency and integrity
    Human relation skills, diplomacy, good listener, field person
    Ability to analyse and summarise
    Toughness, taste for challenge and negotiation
    English / Swahili languages

    Additional Information
    Position based in Nairobi with regular trips within Kenya

    Apply via :

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  • Sustainability Specialist

    Sustainability Specialist

    Job Purpose:
    Support and advise business to ensure that all supply chain operations vendors lead in social and environmental sustainability. Implementing all activities aimed at assuring cutsewfinishlaundary fabric millssundries suppliers meet TOE and legal requirements.
    Operationalize Sustainability in Value Chain- upstream, instream and downstream. Manage all works on Sustainability so as to support North East Asia growth as a source base and key market. Positively influence and educate vendor partners, other stakeholders and employees, on environmental and social issues.
    Responsibilities & Accountabilities

    Ensure supply chain operations and vendors meet LS&CO. social and environmental, health and safety standards and policies

    Works with suppliers, GSC partners – PD&S, third party service providers, other brands, government, and civil society to understand & improve the overall sustainability status of supply chain.
    Collaborates with suppliers, GSC and other stakeholders to analyze supplier performance, identifying areas for improvement.
    Works with suppliers, GSC and other stakeholders to enhance supplier management systems, management and worker training and capacity building projects (e.g. BSR, ILO, IFC projects) to ensure continuous improvement on LS&CO. social and environmental standards.
    Works with suppliers to ensure timely, accurate reporting on LS&CO. Sustainability data requirements.
    Investigate any allegations against the reputation of LS&Co in terms of sustainability related activities & provide recommendation to resolve the issues in a sustainable manner.
    Support in developing & rolling out sustainability related programs
    Follow up, manage, report on sustainability related programs independently
    Provides advice, guidance, and education to GSC functions on social and environmental sustainability standards, procedures, and program initiatives.

    Manage external information and relationships

    Monitor relevant changes in social and environmental sustainability laws and regulations.
    Work with Director Asia and regional project managers to ensure that LS&Co. policies and standards are relevant to local laws and practice.
    Build and manage LS&CO. relationships with Sustainability related external stakeholders, including NGOs, third-party providers, government, and other brands.
    Lead response to Sustainability Alerts with advice of Director Sustainability Asia and Sub Sahara

    Requirements

    Master’s degree in Business Management Social Work with specialization in Labor Laws & Industrial relationshipsEnvironment Health & Safety.
    More than 5 years’ experience in the same or related field with other brands retails reputed buying house NGO or third-party service provider.
    Experience of performing Social and Environmental Health & Safety assessments independently
    Knowledge of textile industry, local laws & other legislations.
    Good communication skills in both written and spoken English, knowledgeable in other local language is preferable
    Good computer knowledge with good analytical skills
    Excellent in interpersonal relationships