Procurement Assistant at Sentrim Hotels & Lodges (2025-07 – 2026-05)
- Coordination: Including verification of received goods, issuing to user departments/lodge units, and ensuring accurate manual and ERP record management
- Purchase Management: Processing of purchase requisitions (POs), and tracking order statuses to ensure the timely delivery of goods and services
- Vendor relationship: Liaising with supplier to resolve pricing/delivery discrepancies, negotiating terms, and maintaining an updated supplier data base
- Sourcing & Quotes: Seeking price quotations and assisting in evaluation of new suppliers
- Inventory Management/Control: Monitoring/tracking stock levels to ensure timely replenishment of supplies thus preventing stock outs plus reconciling deliveries against purchase orders
- Documentation & Compliance: Organizing and filing of procurement records, ensuring processes align with Company procurement policies, reports preparation and providing administrative support to the procurement department
Operations Manager at Food Vending Business (2021-01 – Present)
- Procurement: In charge of supplier pre-qualification, selection, and development process, contract preparation review/ renewal, tendering, and quotation process transparently and ensuring the inspection and maintenance of supplier data
- Coordinating all stores operations, including issuing receipts, receiving deliveries, and record management to ensure smooth supply chain and logistics operations
- Sales: Meeting set sales targets by ensuring that all clients in the appointed route are serviced daily while ensuring that the fresh fruits and vegetables are of the quality and quantity demanded by the clients
- Marketing: Undertaking market surveys on food products to ensure a progressive increase in sales and explore new market gaps in line with the business
- Customer acquisition: Ensuring new clients are encouraged to join the network of customers the business serves through the quality of service and products offered to existing customers, delivering products to customers within the estate and ensuring excellent customer satisfaction, Preparing and issuing local purchase orders to the suppliers
- Business development: As the link between the business and clients, ensuring that customer feedback relayed regarding our products is conveyed to the other business partners
- Sourcing for fruits and vegetables from major markets within Nairobi
- Introducing vendors to new fresh fruits and vegetables, they may not be buying from us
- Relationship management: Ensuring constant communication with the customers concerning the products on offer for sale and their prices and ensuring they are serviced courteously
- Asset and management: Ensuring that the sales vehicle, DMS handset, crates, and other assets as may be allocated are in proper working conditions and available for inspection should the need arises
- Other roles: Ensuring clean, safe, and healthy food standards while handling food products
Procurement & Sourcing Officer/Head of Stores at Sentrim Hotels & Lodges (2013-09 – 2020-03)
- Forecasted procurement needs for Sentrim Hotels and Lodges group and worked hand in hand with lodge unit managers and departmental heads to develop products/services specifications
- Ensured efficient and cost-effective sourcing and delivery of product services and equipment
- Ensured the development and implementation of sourcing strategies for both spend management and supplier development and management
- Worked in collaboration with lodge Storekeepers and departmental heads work towards ensuring optimal inventory levels, thereby reducing lead time and demand management
- Was in charge of supplier pre-qualification, selection, and development process, contract preparation review/ renewal, tendering, and quotation process transparently and ensured the inspection and maintenance of supplier data
- Coordinated all stores operations, including issuing LPOs, receiving, giving to user departments/lodge units, and record management
- Ensured fleet management and prompt, timely delivery to lodge units for efficient lodge operations
- Ensured best stores practices (FIFO method) of storage and issuing to minimize/ eliminate expiries and obsolesce stock
- Worked with the Stock Controller to conduct monthly stock take, reconciliation, and preparation of monthly inventory reports
- Reviewed delivery orders to ensure supply was met, took availability, cost, and lead time into consideration
- Maintained an updated list of suppliers and their qualifications, delivery times, and potential future development
- Conducted monthly stock take, reconciled and prepared reports in collaboration with the Stock controller
- Ensured proper warehouse structural arrangement and layout, orderly stock arrangement, and cleanliness of the store
- Worked with team members, immediate boss, and management on other assigned responsibilities
Administrative/Accounts Assistant at Jac & Associates Certified Public Accountants (2012-01 – 2013-09)
- Reviewed and disbursed authorized petty cash requests, replenished petty cash, and updated member accounts daily
- Processed accounting documents such as invoices, staff interests, and investment disbursements
- Initiated authorization and payment of accounting documents
- Assisted in preparation and submission of with-holding tax and with-holding VAT to KRA before deadlines and prepared with-holding VAT certificates
- Assisted in preparation and submission of statutory deductions to specific authorities while also assisting in reviewing, coding, and filing financial records
- Cashed withdrawals, collected chequebooks and bank statements, and performed other duties
- Assisted in formulation, preparation, and monitoring client's budgets, performance reports, and cash flows
- Assisted in ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, policies, strategies, procedures, and standards for the Partnership and its clients
- Prepared cash books, monthly bank reconciliation statements, and financial reports for management
Self-Employed/Agricultural Worker at Various Local Businesses and Agricultural Engagements (2002-01 – 2012-12)
Performed other local businesses and agricultural engagements
- Took part in agribusiness, assisted in farming activities, and ran the selling of the products
