Supply Chain Officer Job at Cold Hubs Limited

ColdHubs Limited is a social enterprise that designs, installs, commissions, and operates 100% solar-powered walk-in cold rooms in marketplaces and farm clusters, for small-holder farmers, retailers, and wholesalers to store and preserve fresh fruits, vegetables, and other perishable food 24/7 and extend their shelf life from 2 days to 21 days. ColdHubs aims to eliminate the impact of food spoilage facing 470 million smallholder farmers globally, due to a lack of reliable and well-situated cold storage at key points, within the food supply chain.

Our solar-powered walk-in cold rooms branded as - ColdHubs; are specially designed to eliminate losses of fruits, vegetables, and other perishable food due to lack of reliable cold storage completely and increase the income of farmers and retailers because previous losses have been eliminated. ColdHubs has been installed in farms, horticultural produce aggregation centers, and outdoor food markets within the south and north regions of Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Supply Chain Officer

Job Location: Owerri, Imo
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

• Supports, the establishment of a complete fresh fruits, vegetables, and other perishable food, refrigerated transport services business.
• Negotiates, contracts with farmers, farmer cooperatives, wholesalers and retailers of fresh fruits, vegetables and others perishable food and their unions, to offer tailor made logistics solutions to them.
• Supervises, the pick-up and delivery of goods with a maximum per-delivery weight, to locations in its geographic range by refrigerated long haul trucks, offering both "less than a truck load" and "truck load" services.
• Supervises, the haulage of goods from the ColdHubs refrigerated warehouses in farms and aggregation centers, to ColdHubs in marketplaces or other distribution nodes.
• Supports, the recruitment of qualified and well-trained Drivers and their Assistants, with spotless records.
• Supports, the training and re-training of Drivers and their Assistants, in line with Drivers Training Manual.
• Supports, the allocation of routes, pick-up and delivery times to Drivers.
• Supervises, online tracking information detailing the location of all GPS-tagged trucks and the status of deliveries, including expected arrival times for pick-up or delivery.
• Undertakes, phone support for all customer questions, delivery changes, and scheduling.
• Supports, the establishment and maintenance of customer services such as online accounts, regular schedules of shipping, or linking of customer order information directly to ColdHubs Logistics scheduling software to allow for seamless logistics.
• Supports, the purchasing and handing over of all materials/equipment/supplies needed by Drivers and their Assistants to perform their duties.
• Performs, daily supervision/check-ins/calls with all Drivers and their Assistants.
• Collates and presents daily/weekly/monthly business report to management.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: vacancies@coldhubs.com using the Job Position as the subject of the mail.