Valentine Chirchir

VALENTINE JERONO CHIRCHIR Mobile: [-] E-mail:- Profile Summary A committed operations manager with experience in delivering high quality and timely service to clients with an efficient service team. My five years of experience in a machinery importation agency has allowed me to enhance my skills in supervising personnel and efficiently delivering on extensive organizational and administrative tasks. Education Bachelor Of Business Administration • 11/12/2015 • Maseno University Second Class Honours, Upper Division. KCSE • 2010 • Eldama-Ravine Girls B-(B Minus 57 Points) KCPE • 2006 • Esageri Primary School 345/500 Employment History Operations manager • Chunic Limited • 1/06/2018 – present Sourcing and Logistics • Researching for new suppliers and items from across Europe and ensuring they meet import requirements and customer needs. • Negotiating for the best deals or cost-effective items and machinery. • Networking with suppliers to maintain future business relationships and maintaining already established relationships. • Organising for assembly, consolidation, loading and shipping of items from Europe to Kenya • Ensuring proper documentation is put together before shipping to ensure compliance with Kenyan customs laws. • Overseeing clearing and forwarding at port of entry. • Coordinating registration, transport, offloading and assembly of items at various locations. Yard Management • Ensuring day to day running of the workshops, sales and stores departments by planning, organizing and implementing routines and policies. • Determining staffing, financial, material, and other short- and long-term requirements. • Ensuring that necessary spare parts, materials, and equipment are available or obtainable at short notice. • Arranging for maintenance staff to perform necessary maintenance and repair work on all machineries • Checking completed work for compliance with safety and other statutory regulations. • Maintaining records of repair work to detect recurrent faults. Inventory Management: • Routine stock taking and documentation • Monitoring inventory levels and conditions to ensure reorder and faults are corrected. • Ensuring proper record keeping and updating through the use of Sage and ERP system. Internship • Kenya Literature Bureau • 1/1/2015 – 31/03/2015 Supply chain department-Participated in tender opening, tender evaluation, keeping and managing Local Purchase Orders (LPO) and Purchase Requisition Notes (PRN) files, participated in Tender committee meetings, storage and security of Procurement documents and expedition of request for quotation letters. Warehouse department- Annual stock taking, storing, and issuing of books, picking, and packing of orders, receiving books from production department, and arranging of books. Stores section- Main activities included receiving and issuing of stock items, weekly stock taking, posting updated Bin Card to ERPs (Enterprise Resource System), and maintaining Bin Card registers Internship • Boresha Sacco Society Ltd • 2/01/2014-28/02/2014. Inquiries Desk: I was mostly involved in customer care related activities; I managed to handle customer inquiries and complaints. Accounts Department: I acquired skills on raising Cash Receipt Vouchers, Handling of Cheque deposit register, and Cheque Register. FOSA (Front Office Services Activity) Section: I was fully exposed to banking transactions and FOSA loan processing. Professional Trainings and Memberships Member of Kenya Institute of Suppliers Management (KISM) Member no: 71074 References 1. TITUS KIGEN DIRECTOR AT CHUNIC LIMITED-. DOMINIC KLINS OPERATIONS MANAGER AT USHINDI BORA MICROFINANCE LTD.-. CAROLINE OKOOLA SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST-