Regional Store Coordinator

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Zambia

Reporting To: Operations Manager

Description

Location: Copperbelt

About the role:
The Regional Store Coordinator at Sun King will oversee inventory management at the Company’s retail centers, extending to field based agents. The role involves regular travel within the station region. 

What you would be expected to do:

Area Warehouse Inventory Management

• Coordinate daily and weekly stock reconciliation regionally between the systems and physical stock in the retail centers.
• Coordinate reconciliation of out-of-warranty stock from the retail centers to the Central Warehouse Ndola.
• Ensure that inventory movement from the retail centers is as per International Inventory Management Standards—FIFO.
• Ensure that stock in the retail centers is tagged and well stacked as per International Inventory Management Standards.

Systems Inventory Movements

• Initiate stock transfers with retail centers as per approval of the Operations Manager
• Ensure that inventory issued to field agents from the retail centers is tagged correctly on the inventory management systems
• Audit the inventory management systems to ensure that all transactions are effectively booked. This includes but is not limited to returns to the Central Warehouse

Field Inventory Management 

• Coordinate stock recovery initiatives from the agents within station region.
• Ensuring allocation of stock to field agents is per maximum holding limits as communicated by the Operations Manager.
• Ensuring that inventory levels in the field of station regions reflect selling trends and field agent productivity.

Training and Mentorship

• Ensure that Retail Center Executives are well trained on Inventory Policies.
• Coordinate onboarding of assistant Retail Center Executives when there are openings.
• Ensure that Retail Center Executives are well trained on the use of Inventory Management Systems.

Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• Have a degree qualification preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business 
• Administration, Data Science or any Finance Related Course from a Premier Institution.
• Have a 2-3 years’ experience in data processing, inventory planning and management.
• Have an Excellent MS Excel and Google Sheets data processing and presentation skills.
• Have the ability to work comfortably with and maintain large volumes of data.
• Have excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Have the ability to work remotely under minimal supervision.
• Always on the road managing stocks across the country.

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.