Job Context

Helium is a growing restaurant chain operating three Restaurant Outlets and three nearby Sub-Stores in divisional cities, along with a Central Warehouse and a Central Kitchen in Dhaka.

We are looking for an analytical, responsible, and result-oriented Assistant Manager ─ Supply Chain Management to manage procurement, inventory, warehousing, replenishment, supplier performance, Central Kitchen coordination, logistics, cost control, and supply chain reporting.

Department: Supply Chain Management

Key Responsibilities

• Plan demand, procurement, and the replenishment cycle for all Restaurant Outlets and Sub-Stores.

• Ensure the timely availability of raw materials, semi-finished goods, packaging materials, beverages, and other operational supplies.

• Monitor purchase requisitions, purchase orders, supplier deliveries, lead times, and pending purchases.

• Evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, delivery performance, service, and performance.

• Negotiate purchase prices and analyze purchase price variances.

• Control emergency and local purchases and reduce unnecessary local sourcing.

• Monitor Central Warehouse and Sub-Store inventories, stock cover, stock-outs, excess stock, and inventory discrepancies.

• Ensure accurate stock transfers and reconciliation among the Central Kitchen, Central Warehouse, Sub-Stores, and Restaurant Outlets.

• Coordinate Central Kitchen production requirements, yield, material usage, wastage, and semi-finished goods transfers.

• Monitor slow-moving, near-expiry, expired, damaged, and wasted inventory.

• Ensure compliance with FIFO, FEFO, storage, temperature-control, hygiene, and food-safety requirements.

• Plan dispatches and monitor delivery accuracy, delays, shortages, transit damage, and logistics costs.

• Ensure proper documentation of requisitions, quotations, purchase orders, challans, GRNs, stock transfers, and inventory records.

• Coordinate with Operations, Accounts, HR & Admin, Central Kitchen, Outlet Management, and Internal Audit.

• Prepare weekly and monthly supply chain reports, KPI dashboards, risk updates, and action plans.

• Supervise and develop warehouse, store, and supply chain personnel.