Living Goods Product and Procurement Manager Job in Nairobi Kenya

Living Goods Product and Procurement Manager Job in Nairobi Kenya

Job Title: Product and Procurement Manager Living Goods is seeking a dynamic and driven Product & Procurement Manager to join our Product team in Kenya to help deliver the organizations’ scale and impact of its innovative community health model in Kenya.
As we enter a period of exciting expansion, the Product & Procurement Manager will be tasked to ensure Living Goods' product range achieves maximum impact through securing products on exceptional terms that deliver maximum profits to our agents and impactful products to our customers and ensures we are never out of stock.
Living Goods is a pioneering, dynamic and high impact social enterprise focused on addressing the health needs of the underserved.
Reporting to the Country Director, Kenya you will support the selection and development of products, negotiate the terms and have a product range that offers real impact to our customers and great value to our agents.
Leveraging your exceptional communication and influencing skills combined with attention to detail you will manage the supplier base being well informed of new developments, gaining from supplier’s promotional marketing support to increase sales and ensuring that product is continuously available.
You'll ensure that the total product offer, availability and efficient selling are fully considered and that maximum profit is generated while maintaining a great product range that sells and delivers impact.
The right candidate will have a proven ability to work under pressure in a fast moving dynamic environment while delivering results at an individual and team level.
You are great for this position if you are a driven, smart and pragmatic entrepreneurial leader with an exceptional track record of sourcing, developing new products, negotiating, and supplier and product management.
This position is based in Nairobi Kenya with some travel to Kampala Uganda.
Responsibilities

To achieve optimum product costs and quality through excellent supplier selection, management and highly effective negotiation, relentlessly looking at different ways to source products.

To develop and deliver robust procurement plans by understanding demand trends and supervise cost effective logistics ensuring 100% availability of high/med impact products at a branch level.

To manage all information relating to product and undertake category product reviews, analysing all round performance, new product opportunities and regularly assessing pricing to build recommendations for improvements to the product offer that links with the category strategy and impact objectives.

To develop and deliver the Kenyan and Ugandan product sourcing and development plans ensuring key milestones in the critical path are met so new products are launched on time and to the right quality and price and deliver impact and on going performance reviewed against targets agreed.

Working with suppliers, negotiate support and develop marketing tactics for Living Goods products and co-ordinate the development of marketing materials with the sales and marketing team.

Collaborate closely with the Living Goods Branch teams to ensure the product range sells like mad.

Share expertise and experience with Living Goods’ Uganda product team. Qualifications

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in procurement/product development of multiple products.

Experience designing and pushing procurement teams to meet best practice standards for documentation and segregation of duties.

Experience in internal procurement audit training a must.

Strong commercial awareness and previous product experience required preferably within African markets.

Excellent supplier management, negotiation and influencing skills will be essential.

Proven track record of managing a product range.

Must have excellent product performance analysis skills, including a strong foundation in financial accounting, management and modeling for multi-product businesses.

Must have expert experience leveraging impact of microfinance product margin and sales performance through previous loan product design experience.

Experience of working with suppliers on a FOB & domestic basis.

Product, market and consumer knowledge.

Experience designing and conducting in-the-field research techniques to gather feedback, including interviews; preference for background in cultural anthropology.

Has in-depth understanding of local product production (e.g. cookstoves) with experience in managing production supply chains and quality control in African markets (preference for Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana).

Proven success in developing product marketing strategies to increase sales volumes.

Excellent computer literacy especially with excel skills and data analysis.

Minimum of a Masters degree.

International Development, International Relations or MBA preferred. Compensation:

A highly competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.

The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need. What is Living Goods? Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cookstoves, and solar lights.
Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please see; Living Goods Product and Procurement Manager Job in Nairobi Kenya to visit our career page and apply for Product and Procurement Manager by 28th Feb 2015 through our applicant tracking system.
In lieu of a cover letter you will be asked to answer a few short questions that will help us learn a little bit more about you and your interest in working with Living Goods.