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  • Commodity Buyer

    Commodity Buyer

    Job description

    Your responsibilities:

    Being the first point of contact for the internal customers for all procurement requests
     Ensure adherence to the purchase order process
    Check purchase requisitions and issue purchase orders
    Conduct the RFQ (Request For Quotation) process including the sourcing decision according to the signature rules
    Conclude and manage contracts with all suppliers
     Data entry and maintenance of the SAP system in accordance to the guidelines
    Implementation of regional material field strategy
     Ensure early involvement in assigned material fields
    Mentorship for assigned suppliers including releasing, evaluating, and eliminating suppliers (operational supplier management)

    Your competencies and qualifications:
    Education:
    Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Post Graduate Degree
    Experience and Skills:

    2-3 years’ experience in purchasing
    Proficient in Ms Office (Word, Excel )
    SAP knowledge

    Your personal Characteristics and skills:

    Strong organizational skills
    Strong analytical skills that can interpret figures
    Attention to detail
    Good communication skills both written and verbal
    Strong negotiation skills
    Time management
    Self-confident

  • Project Assistant Trainee

    Project Assistant Trainee

    Job description

    Your responsibilities:

    Assist in coordination of local activities to implement commercialization of new micro-credit business model, ComIN.
    Support in design and implementation of business processes, linking them to the commercial Bosch Thermotechnology commercial activities
    Collection of data for analysis to derive trends, customer behaviour and other actionable insights
    Implement local marketing, sales and communication activities with partners and customers
    Support in planning tasks for the technical team and coordinating changes
    Collect and prepare paperwork necessary for the team including documentation of processes and results.
    Support in coordination of flow of information between customer, payments partner and local technical team following system installations
    Perform monitoring of customer service requests and follow

    Your competencies and qualifications:
    Education:
    4 Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Post Graduate Degree
    Experience and Skills:

    4 Proficient ICT skills
    4 Experience in marketing and business development

    Your personal Characteristics and skills:

    4 Creative problem solving
    4 Good communication skills both written and verbal
    4 Entrepreneurial Spirit

  • Technical Sales Manager

    Technical Sales Manager

    Job description
    Your responsibilities:
    Product Scope:
    Food Product Groups: Predominantly granular products like sugar, alt, rice, pulses, tea, coffee, snacks, confectionary, biscuit etc
    Marketing Penetration:

    Market intelligence on customer industries in scope
    Relationship management with customers, coordinating of activities of local and foreign sales & service staff
    Reporting to abroad sales entities

    Lead Management:

    Keeping an overview on potential leads
    Assurance of profitable sales pipeline front-loading (priority setting)
    Assurance of right-quote to right –customer in right-time

    Order Intake Management:

    Personal involvement /escalation of critical situations to assure customer’s decision towards Bosch
    Strategy development & deployment to achieve OI targets of individual product groups

    Machinery Reselling:
    Development of new business models to boost local footprint
    Strategic Support Activities:

    Keep close relationship with 3rd party companies selling within the same value stream like Printer-Suppliers, Film-Suppliers, Carton-Supplier (Target: Lead generation)
    Coaching of service activities in East Africa:
    Keeping track of installed base and proactive support to service department
    Support new machinery sales strategy by stronger involvement of local field service engineers in new machinery installation and commissioning

    Your competencies and qualifications:
    Education:
    Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering Degree
    Experience and Skills:

    5-7 years experience in sales within food processing and packaging industry
    Proven track record in sales of highly priced products
    Sound technical understanding of vertical fill form and seal technology

    Your personal Characteristics and skills:

    Strong communication and negotiating skills
    Ability to handle pressure
    Good problem solving
    Ability to build productive business professional relationships

  • Technical Trainee

    Technical Trainee

    Job description
    Your responsibilities:

    Assess sites to ensure structural integrity and optimal tilt orientation of potential mounting surfaces.
    Install, Inspect, commission and maintain solar water heating systems and components.
    Review plumbing plans and specifications to determine the layout for SWHs.
    Support service partners in ensuring service delivery and compliance
    Provide technical assistance and product knowledge to distributors and service partners.
    Support marketing and business development activities.
    Prepare technical specifications, reports, cost estimates and other relevant documents for projects.
    Prepare and update procedures, methods and drawings.
    Demonstrate commercial sensitivity with ability to deliver results within agreed timelines and budgets.
    Report customer feedback and other expectations or areas of improvement (process, product, business strategy, etc.)
    Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar thermal systems or components.
    Create plans for solar thermal system development, monitoring, and evaluation of projects.

    Main activities:

    Interact Perform scheduled Installations of SWH systems and fixtures directly (Bosch projects) or indirectly (Service providers and distributors).
    Apply all codes of installations, repairs and maintenance
    Check that all requirements as specified by the manufacturer of systems and fixtures are met
    Ensure all installations are properly sized, aligned, properly fastened and supported if needed.
    Ensure all installations meet the requirements of the appropriate codes

  • Food & Beverage Supervisor

    Food & Beverage Supervisor

    Job Description
    The Scope
    The suitable candidate will ensure all staff in the department adheres to the laid down Standard procedures and policies and exhibit Food & Beverage service core values.
    She/he will ensure table appointments, including Club house arrangements, are impeccable and set correctly.
    The postholder will:

    Ensure that stations have their correct mise-en-place,
    maintain high standards of morale and personal appearance of service waiters/waitresses,
    liaise with Food and Beverage Manager regarding special functions,
    ensure regular stocktaking of all operating equipment at specified intervals and
    maintain a high degree of interest in self-development, displaying this by making suggestions for realistic improvements.

    Candidate requirements

    She/he should have relevant Degree or Diploma especially in Food & Beverage or restaurant management from Utalii College or any well recognized institution and at least five years (5) experience in restaurant supervision.
    She/he must be proactive, team player, organized and have effective management skills: delivering profit centre profitability.
    She/he must be thorough and of good relationship skills.
    She/he must be presentable, possess interpersonal skills, flexible and possess relevant computer applications.

  • Business Developer – Air Conditioning

    Business Developer – Air Conditioning

    Job description
    Your Responsibilities:

    Build strong customer relationships driving penetration of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning solutions. Provide solutions and designs as per the customer’s requirements.
    Build relationships and establish faithful customer network to achieve market penetration.
    Supervise and organize bid preparation works and ensure accuracy of bid costing.
    Prepare proposals based on the project’s technical specifications and requirements.
    Lead efforts to sell installation and future products to residential customers, homeowner organizations, professional organizations, commercial or other targeted clients within assigned territory
    Identify and conducts follow-up on leads generated through professional organizations, trade shows, community events, technicians, advertising and other lead generating techniques
    Conduct post sale follow-up by contacting customer(s) to ensure service expectations are being met and to generate referrals
    Present sales presentation and proposal to prospects, identifying positive features and advantages of our products and services over those of the competition
    Help develop appropriate sales process and collateral for closing leads.
    Conduct market analysis to determine Bosch competitive position regarding products, pricing and service levels for areas of responsibility
    Uncover and leverage customer and competitor insights to enhance product offering and enhance customer value.

    Education:
    Tertiary qualification: Mechanical or Industrial engineering
    Experience:

    Minimum 5 years working in Business to Business Sales
    Experience with commercial Heating Ventilation and Airconditioning Control work 3+years
    Service Experience

    Your personal Characteristics and skills:

    Posses skills in Heating Ventilation and Airconditioning Component systems and control experience
    Maintenance and Building construction related in Heating Ventilation and Airconditioning Component systems
    New-business acquisition preference
    Strong interpersonal and communication skills

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  • Regional Program Officer (RPO) for Africa.

    Regional Program Officer (RPO) for Africa.

    ALM seeks to employ a Regional Program Officer (RPO) who will help ALM realize the vision of a world without leprosy by ensuring a portfolio of projects in the Africa Region are implemented and reported on with excellence. This includes understanding, communicating and implementing monitoring and evaluation best practices, donor requirements and organizational policies in the implementation of projects to ALM staff and partners. This position reports to the Regional Director for Africa.
    Specific Responsibilities

    Ensure a portfolio of projects in the region are managed and reported on with excellence
    Coordinate rapid start-up of awarded grants with implementing partners to ensure timely implementation
    Ensure effective, transparent use of resources in compliance with ALM and donor policies and procedures
    Work with the program team to develop or support use of tools as necessary to build organizational and partner capacity in implementation (e.g. budgeting, work plans, cash flow projections, procurement plans, compliance checklists, etc.).
    Compliance with donor regulations and best practices in the field.
    Coordinate and manage project reporting and compliance timelines through the lifecycle of the project and facilitate documentation and dissemination of project learnings.
    Support submission of high quality reports within ALM and to ALM partners, including other NGOs, the UN, and government agencies
    Strengthen the operational research aspect of program implementation in Africa projects.
    Strengthen the M&E framework, systems and capacity for measuring progress and evidencing its impact at multiple levels in line with the strategies of the organization and project
    Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of both projects and systems to ensure greater transparency and accountability of ALM’s work
    Lead M&E capacity development initiatives (including needs assessment, module development, training facilitation, etc.) for staff and partners on participatory monitoring and evaluation, reporting and accountability
    Support the program team and implementing partners in designing effective projects with clear log frames, strategic project outcomes and appropriately linked and cost-effective activities
    Assist in the development of effective tools and systems enabling the efficient collection, analysis and dissemination of project data
    Ensure relevant program data is shared with other NTD actors and reporting bodies, and that relevant data from external bodies is shared with ALM staff
    Research and learn best practices in monitoring and evaluation and the administration of grants and assist in improving organizational capacity through information sharing and training

    Qualifications required.

    Master’s degree in public health, international development, monitoring and evaluation, Project Management or a related field.
    A committed Christian.
    Technical expertise in leprosy and other NTD’s, community development, community engagement and inclusive development.
    5 or more years relevant professional experience in international development (project implementation, management or new business development in a developing country)
    Significant experience in theories of change, logical frameworks and other project design concepts
    Advanced communication and report writing skills
    Ability to travel internationally, up to 40% of total working days per year
    Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and Outlook.
    Basic accounting and financial reporting experience and skills.
    Ability and willingness to share the Christian faith through word and deed.
    Proficiency in design and implementation of project information databases, DHIS2 or similar software
    Ability to speak and write French will be an added advantage.

  • Key Accounts Manager Human Resources Administrator Logistics Intern

    Key Accounts Manager Human Resources Administrator Logistics Intern

    Job Description
    Functional Area: Automotive Aftermarket Corporate success at Bosch is determined by innovation capability and an edge in know-how. Accept with us the challenge of new tasks by your willingness to permanently learn something new. Robert Bosch East Africa is a growing business in the Bosch Group located in Nairobi, Kenya. We operate in the business divisions Automotive Aftermarket, Power Tools, Security Systems, Packaging Technology, and Thermotechnology.
    Your responsibilities:

    Developing Bosch business within each channel partner to ensure targets
    Sells parts and promotes bytes and services in the assigned territory.
    Introduction of new products, follow-up and stock suggestion.
    Implement and manage warranty policy.
    Understanding of distribution and sales plan on account plan/district level.
    First point of contact for customers
    Launching of all new products
    Analyse relevant market inputs

    Your personal Characteristics:

    Good communication skills
    Smart sales personal
    Focused on market vosts and sales activities
    Willing to travel
    Networking & relationship

    Your competencies and qualifications:
    Education:
    Tertiary qualification:
    Commercial economics, Business Administration, Sales and/ or Marketing
    Experience and Skills:

    Minimum 3 years’ experience
    Relevant communication skills:
    English and local dialect preferred
    Ability to be a salesman and build customer relationships
    English speaking, reading and writing
    Availability to travel within Kenya and other African countries
    Excellent negotiation skills
    High level sales drive / orientation.
    Experience in distribution
    ERP knowledge
    Good analytical skills
    Able to take decisions and create a direction for future development

    Reference: RBKE-KAM

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  • Food & Beverage Manager

    Food & Beverage Manager

    Job Description

    The suitable candidate will be responsible for the smooth running of all the Operations of the bar & Catering, overall coordination of efficient service delivery within the Food & Beverage department and marketing and coordination of all events hosted at the club. 
    S/he will have the responsibility to develop, innovate and deliver a product mix which is quality driven whilst maintaining aggressive financial returns and membership satisfaction.
    S/he will be driven by ensuring that all working methods are reviewed and best practice is achieved so that the Club in turn can grow its business whilst delivering excellent member service. 

    Requirements

    S/he should have a relevant undergraduate degree in Hotel Management or related degree in hospitality industry with at least five (5) years’ experience in a managerial/ Supervisory position in a reputable Hospitality organization. 
    The person must have up to date knowledge sound knowledge of food & beverage products and be excellent in event planning. 
    He/she should be proactive, responsive and keen with details.
    Must have high integrity, confidentiality, and negotiation skills, adept in oral and written communication and possess relevant computer applications.

  • Managing Director

    Managing Director

    Job description
    Bosch East Africa, a member of the multi-disciplinary Engineering group Bosch Holdings, has an opportunity for a Managing Director to lead further growth in the East African region from the office in Nairobi. The Bosch East Africa office was established in Nairobi in 2013.
    This position will report directly to the Bosch Holdings Operations Director.
    Key responsibilities covering general management, marketing and consulting will include:

    Develop a strategy to achieve agreed growth targets
    Prepare and manage annual budgets
    Business performance and management
    Develop a marketing strategy and participate in marketing, promotion efforts and manage
    client relationships
    Lead or participate in feasibility studies and consultancy assignments
    Ensure that business and project risks are acceptably managed
    Ensure compliance with group HR, QMS and H&S Policies
    Office management / administration
    Training and development of staff
    Assume full statutory accountability for the business.

    The Bosch East Africa office in Nairobi will be supported by Bosch Holdings Sector Directors (Sugar, Water, Ports & Terminals, Industrial, Buildings and Roads & Developments) as well as Bosch Management Services (Finance, HR and IT).
    The ideal candidate should:

    Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering or commerce.
    Have a successful track record of managing multi-disciplinary Industrial, Infrastructure or Building projects
    Have experience in marketing / business development
    Have established client networks and contacts in the Kenya industry
    Demonstrate competency in strategic planning and business development
    Have excellent organisational, leadership and people management skills
    Be an accredited Professional Engineer in Kenya (an added advantage)
    Have a formal registration as a Professional Project Manager (an added advantage).

    PLEASE NOTE THAT FEEDBACK WILL BE GIVEN TO SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES ONLY