christopher muruthi

Christopher is a father of two children and a passionate Office Manager with 13+ years of experience managing operations in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments. Achieve organizational objectives. Skilled at working effectively with different departments to coordinate information and resolve problems.

Professional Experience

KAMORI ANIMAL FEEDS, MUGEKA.

Factory Administrator, June 2014–present

• Responsible for the day-to-day running of the production facility, organisation of personnel and the manufacture of required tonnages.
• Leading a team of 5 on-site staff. 
• Responsible for the achievement of the agreed budget 
• Develop a site structure which enables the production and delivery of feed of consistently satisfactory quality to farmers and stockists to be met at a minimum cost.
• Train farmers on the best management practices
• Field visits to our clients
• Outsourcing quality raw materials at a reasonable price for the feed mixing department.
• Attain company targets.
• Taking orders from stockists and large farmers.
• Provide recommendations for product improvements

SKILLS ACQUIRED AT KAMORI ANIMAL FEEDS

• Training farmers in dairy, poultry and pig farming
• Animal feeds mixing and production.
• Feed quality control
• Keeping an inventory of ingredients for animal feeds and finished products
• Able to handle client complaints and solve 100% of the issues.
• Knowledge on raw materials

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Attaining 50+ stockist clients per year
• Training a minimum of 10 large farms per year and engaging them with our products and sales of company products.
• Training a minimum of  24 farmer groups per year and maintaining product sales to the groups.
• Increasing product quality boost product quality by vast knowledge of additives for animal feeds prodcution.
• Ensured start-to-finish systems in animal feeds distribution from clients to finished product to client delivery.
• Increase company revenue to 30%  each year.
• Training company new staff.

PACIFIC PRINTERS AND STATIONERS.

Manager, January 2010–January 2014

• Dealing directly with customers
• Selling printing services to customers and developing new business
• Estimating the cost of the print job
• Negotiating prices and sending quotations to customers
• Monitoring stock levels and buying print production materials — ink, toner, paper
• Organising work schedules and managing staff
• Making sure that print machinery is used effectively and properly maintained
• Making sure that work is finished by agreed deadlines and budgets
• Checking the quality of the finished work.
• Meeting production deadlines
• Reduce wastage at all levels of production

SKILLS ACQUIRED AT PACIFIC PRINTERS AND STATIONERS

• Able to design with adobe illustrator and adobe photoshop software.
• Proofreading very well
• Knowledge of paper types and grammage
• Knowing all printing press workflows in each department

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Getting at least 10 new  large clients per year
• Ensured start-to-finish systems in printing press from clients to finished product to client delivery.
• Increase company revenue to 20%  each year.
• Training company new staff in each department

OLIVE FARM LIMITED.

Administrator Intern, January 2009–November 2009

• Dealing directly with customers
• Selling company products to customers
• Taking orders and delivering to respective departments.
• Solving client complaints.
• Helping in negotiations  in Outsourcing company raw ingredients and supplies

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Initiated proper  inventory record-keeping systems

SKILLS ACQUIRED AT OLIVE FARM LIMITED

• Dealing with clients and solving client complaints
• Sales of products and services
• Taking orders and estimates of prices
• Negotiations with suppliers
• Broad supplier research

Education

JOMOKENYATTA UNIVERSITY.

Bachelor of Commerce, July 2008 

• 2nd class Upper:

St Michael Computer Institute, May 2005

• Computer Certificate

St Paul Thomas Secondary, December  2004

• KCSE

St Paul Thomas Academy, December 2000

• KCPE

Additional Skills

• Expert in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Expert in Adobe design software
• Dairy, poultry and pig farming training
• Animal feeds formulations and ingredients sourcing.
• Order taking and solving clients' complaints.
• Expert operation in QuickBooks

Bachelor of Commerce, July 2008 

• 2nd class Upper: