Warehouse Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - Belgium

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, international organisation. The organisation is made up mainly of doctors and health sector workers and is also open to all other professions which might help in achieving its aims. Médecins Sans Frontières Provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor

Location: Abuja

Main Duties and Responsibilities
Planning and supervising on a day-to-day basis the Warehouse and Stock Management activities in the project or capital, ensuring compliance of MSF standards, protocols and procedures. These activities include but are not limited to the following:

• Physically and administratively managing medical and non-medical stocks in conjunction with the supply officer and the stock owners and assuming responsibility for the warehouse and its contents
• Ensuring that all necessary tools and management procedures are in place in order to avoid stock ruptures, losses (expiries, damages due to bad storage conditions, temperature breach) and excess stocks. Regularly checking inventory levels (physical counts), keeping inventories up to date and monitoring consumption
• Checking, recording and arranging the goods received and ensuring the availability of a wide range of items for various projects and departments (medical supplies, food, spare parts, tools, equipment, etc.)
• Ensuring that all items are well organized and correctly stored according to their specificity, well protected, fully identified and easily accessible (cleanliness, security, access, etc.)
• Supervising the team under his/her responsibility including the definition and planning of each person's tasks (daily supervision and checking the quality of their work); drawing up working schedule and organizing and leading team meetings
• Supervising, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training/induction, evaluation, potential detection, development and communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required.
• Performing delegated tasks according to her speciality and as specified in his/her job description.

MSF Section / Context Specific Accountabilities

• Ensuring stock management analysis and recommendations, self-inspection (focusing on good distribution practices) is carried out over the period, participates activily in pharma-supply meetings
• Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching, and assuring the quality of goods, Measure and report the effectiveness of warehousing activities.
• Organize and maintain dispatch and reception inventory and storage area, Ensure shipments’ and inventory transactions’ accuracy, anticipating problems before anything arises.
• Maintain items record, document necessary information, and utilize reports to project warehouse status Update and share with the client dispatching area volume and weight of items available, booking and estimating the volume and capacity of cargo.

Job Requirement

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification.

Application Closing Date
25th January, 2023.