Uchumi Supermarkets Kenya is rated
4.8 out of 5 stars on
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Uchumi Supermarkets Kenya is rated
4.8 out of 5 stars on
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Security Officer in
Nairobi
Security Officer Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
5.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
5.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 09 Mar 2020
Likes
work environment,career growth,training
Dislikes
innovation
Work Details
general security surveillance ie cctv operation, patrol ,report witting
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Category Head in
Nairobi
shop floor Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
5.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
5.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 11 Sep 2018
Likes
Uchumi supermarkets is the most top brand in Kenya that offers the excellent customer service which is core value .The company has range of products produced locally and imports.All staff members taken through training customer service training which helps us gain knowledge of mix and match of products.The company emphasizes team working and sharing knowledge among members.There is adequate job security for all staffs are permanent and pensionable.Salaries and appraisals are negotiated after two years through recognition agreements.The working condition is appealing,safety measures are provident to everybody in the company.The company operates on shifts of 8 hours and in-case one exceeds some minutes they are computed and compensated fully by end month....Read More
Dislikes
Nothing everything is ok
Work Details
I cannot regret for the 21 years i have worked in Uchumi.I have gained knowledge on different areas.
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Offers equal opportunity to all staff. Has policies that allow staff to pursue educational courses while working. Flexible schedules and good HR practices.Generally has adopted good structure.
Dislikes
Financial indiscipline led to crippling of financial status of the company.
Work Details
Great experience giving me opportunity to learn,interact and grow.
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Account Assistant in
Nairobi
Accounting & Taxation Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
5.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 20 Apr 2022
Likes
The Job is permanent and pensionable. Good work culture with mutual respect, good protocol, team work and good values.
Dislikes
Average salary.
Work Details
Helped me in career development and career growth
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
International Travel.
Accountant
Accounting & Taxation Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
4.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 May 2018
Likes
exposure of staff to different departments.
Dislikes
nil
Work Details
exciting
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Back Office Supervisor
Inventory finance Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 26 Oct 2018
Likes
The only thing that was nice about uchumi is the free kind of work environment and occasional travel that included cash allowances for training or meetings at the head office though a little skewed to those who were based at the head office.
Dislikes
There are too many things I disliked about uchumi.i would write a whole book if i had the time
Let me just begin by saying that there was too much politics at management level the most notorious being at the finance department where we had a mafia like cartel of individuals who spent too much time doing nothing and earning huge perks at the head office causing too many problems at the branches so that they can travell collecting huge allowances in the pretext of going to train staff at the branches...the most notorious was inventory department and buying department.Those guys had a way of misusing the system causing variances deliberately in the company erp system and shifting the blame to the branches whereby friendly branches would be labelled as performing well...when I say friendly branches I mean those branches that have kin related to inventory guys at the helm of branch inventory section.I mean if you are a back office supervisor and somehow your appointment to that position was based on some kind of relationship with certain people at the head office then....your branch will all ways perform well subject to creative accounting and manipulation of data right from the head office.
To add matters worse , the inventory guys would wait like hyenas for the quarterly stock takes so that they can mess up the data and travel upcountry using annoying language that hurt peopke like some of us who had no kin at thd hq..language like we are going to bridge knowledge gaps.These are some of the things that killed uchumi .Funnily, internal auditors have no clue of the company erp system or have been appointed based on cronyism at the head office.part of the inventory team tasked with reviewing branch variances also have no idea of variance explanations so their main job was to travel and collect huge allowances on useless trips...travelling up to tanzania and Uganda for stock taking and variance reviews...I wonder what they did with the free allowance money....Read More
Work Details
The work was hectic at branch level. Too much un necessary pressure from ignorant guys at the head office.... You report to ignorant people who have been selected to head departments based on cronyism.