Uganda: Logistics Coordinator
Living Goods is seeking an efficient and highly driven Logistics Coordinator to join our Product team in Uganda. The successful candidate will become the expert and go-to person for all logistics and distribution requirements for our work in Uganda. Ensuring all Living Goods' branches are fully equipped, running smoothly, and compliant with all legal and licensing requirements this person will be a lynchpin in our Uganda operations.
Reporting to the Ugandan Product Manager, the Logistics Coordinator will support the end-to-end procurement of all non-stock items ensuring all logistics and distribution requirements are carried out as efficiently and effectively as possible. 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 have a keen eye for detail and are able to multi-task with accuracy and efficiency. This position is based in Kampala, Uganda with some travel to our Ugandan branches.
Responsibilities
Coordinate all logistics, suppliers, procurement requirements and deliveries to ensure the smooth operation of Living Goods offices and branches.Ensure Living Goods buildings are fully compliant with legal and licensing requirements while serving as the main point of contact for the landlords.Guarantee security requirements for Living Goods Ugandan facilities are in place.Procure all non-stock items and services required for the current and future Living Goods branches and offices, securing great prices that are negotiated and delivered on time while all appropriate LG procurement processes are followed.Coordinate all logistics and distribution within Living Goods Uganda for stock and non-stock items including where there are no direct deliveries from suppliers while minimizing logistics time and costs.Perform all quality control on all orders delivered and coordinate all product warranty/return/after service support with staff and suppliers.Coordinate all stock taking and inventory management requirements by assessing actual and POS stock levels, supporting good stock management practice at the warehouses and overseeing the stock-taking process across Living Goods in Uganda.Complete accurately and on time all stock level reporting including stock levels and shrink and conduct shrink investigations as directed.Qualifications
Minimum of 2 years’ experience in logistics and stock management.A good eye for detail and excellent communication skillsExcellent computer literacy especially with Excel and data analysis.Experience with Quick Books POS system an advantage.Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.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 emerging markets, 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. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of underserved communities.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods. Seewww.livinggoods.org/principles.
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