Tarpo – Purchasing Assistant

Are you experienced in sourcing and at the same time good at building rapport with suppliers? Have you got a qualification in accounting? Do you have advanced skills in MS Excel? Are you inspired by high variety, low volume projects?

If you answered yes to ALL of the above, then we’d like to hear from you.

The role: Purchasing Assistant

Minimum requirements:

• Diploma in supply chain management
• KCSE score ‘C+’ or higher
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• CPA (K) Part 1 or equivalent
• At least 18 months experience of sourcing or procurement for a technical/engineering organisation
• Can communicate in layman’s English with an engineering mind
• Owns a laptop (Tarpo runs a ‘bring your own device’ policy)

Experience of handling imports will be an added advantage.

What we value:

• Honesty
• Being a listener
• Practical
• Proud of their work and who they represent
• Dependable
• Efficient

What we expect:

Velocity in our purchasing process to offer the highest support service to our manufacturing, trading and events management divisions.

What we hope:

• You have some experience
• You have a network
• You have a reason to wake up every morning
• You’re not ‘entitled’ – you’ll clean the yard if you have to