Junior Buying Clerk job at Q-Sourcing Limited
Vacancy Title: Junior Buying Clerk
Type: Full Time
Industry: Consulting
Category: Sales & Retail
Hiring Organization: Q-Sourcing Limited
Deadline: Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Duty Station: Within Uganda, Uganda, East Africa
Summary:
Date Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Base Salary: Not Disclosed
Job Details:
About This Job: Q-Sourcing Limited, operating as Q-Sourcing Servtec, is a manpower management solutions firm in East Africa, including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Sudan. On behalf of our client, Mr. Green Africa, we seek a skilled Junior Buying Clerk to work in Uganda.
Job Purpose: The Junior Clerk ensures efficient operations of the Trading Point, serving MGA Suppliers with speed, accuracy, and protocol compliance. Responsibilities include operating the trading point cash account, handling mobile payment requests, and ensuring accurate price calculations. The role also involves weighing, packing recyclables per MGA guidelines, preparing them for dispatch, maintaining optimal housekeeping levels, and supporting other operations as directed by MGA Management.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Supplier Experience & Relations: Build strong customer relationships with suppliers to ensure loyalty and retention. Act as MGA’s brand ambassador in the community.
- Quality Control: Purchase recyclable plastic from suppliers following Product & Price Guidelines, ensuring a maximum waste threshold of 2%.
- Retail Store Operations: Manage cash and digital payments in the store, ensuring accountability for all cash floats and stock from purchase to stock take.
- Logistics: Manage dispatch of recyclables in collaboration with the Operations Manager, ensuring accountability and proper sign-off for all stock received and dispatched.
- Health and Safety: Oversee and ensure adherence to Health & Safety Protocols at the Retail Store.
- Communication: Ensure suppliers receive necessary information through direct communication or posters at the trading point.
Experience and Qualifications:
Mandatory Requirements:
- Business / Community Development Diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of two years of experience
- Computer literacy is an added advantage
Added Advantages:
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency in English and Swahili
- Ability to interact with diverse cultures and social classes
- Strong conflict resolution skills
- Proficiency in working with numbers and data management
- Attention to detail and minimal supervision required
- Agile and proactive work ethic
- Flexibility to change duty stations as needed
- Ability to work under pressure and in a digital environment
- Capability to work extended hours, weekends, and holidays
- Proficiency in using smartphones
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Work Hours: 8
Experience: 24 months
Level of Education: Associate Degree
Application Procedure
All candidates who meet the criteria outlined above should submit their applications under the job vacancy “QSSU-MGA-JBC-JUNIOR BUYING CLERK.”
Note: The deadline for applications is no later than 05:00 pm, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
