Overview
To handle receipt/dispatch and verification of commodities to maximize warehouse operations quality and mitigate losses, and to support storage management practices in compliance with WFP standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Effectively receive/dispatch commodities including transhipment against approved documentation, ensuring accuracy in physical count and quality.
- Prepare, verify, and sign off warehouse and transport documents, and maintain confidential files and accurate records.
- Conduct daily warehouse closing reconciliation and accurate inventory checks.
- Perform daily inspections and prepare reports on commodity quantity and quality, detect and analyse discrepancies/damages, investigate missing quantity, and prepare loss reports.
- Implement measures to safeguard food and non-food commodities, ensuring quality control.
- Monitor warehouse and commodity condition and take appropriate actions for efficient space-planning and organized storage.
- Provide guidance and on-the-job training to warehouse staff.
Required Experience
Minimum 4 years of experience in warehouse and inventory management, including receiving, storing, dispatching, stock control, warehouse documentation, use of SAP systems and quality assurance of food and non-food commodities. Experience using logistics databases to extract routine reports. Experience in managing warehouses with food and NFIs. Experience in managing inventories. Experience in processing invoices.
Qualifications
Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.
