CXO Right-Arm Project Manager - Jumia at Jumia Nigeria

Department: Company Leadership

About this Role

• No need to choose between a consulting firm, a multinational or a startup environment, choose all and join Jumia. In this role, based out of Lagos in Nigeria, you will report to one of our CXOs and lead game-changing projects across commercial, marketing, operations or logistics for decisive impact at internet speed!
• Join amazing people who value collaboration, flat hierarchy, agility, trust, care and fun. Jumia hosts a blend of local and international top talents with previous bluechip and ground-up experience.
• Want a 100% African / 100% Internet experience? Join Us!

Responsibilities
The kind of work you will do

• As right hand to the CXO, your projects will entail deep understanding and drive of our functions across commercial, marketing, operations & logistics. This will require you to make recommendations and decisions, pilot and improve the impact at internet speed.
• You will work closely with all the teams across the country.
• You will be groomed and coached by one of our leaders. You will have the opportunity to change after 9-12 months in a role and go on to another function or take one of the operational roles on the ground or elsewhere.

Examples of Projects include:

• In Commercial:
  • Steering commercial performance & profitability
  • Developing new categories to drive everyday usage of the platform
• In Marketing:
  • Improve the performance of our marketing channels
  • Drive branding projects to establish Jumia as a most loved brand
• In Operations:
  • Monitor & Improve all levers of Customer Excellence
  • Monitor & Improve all levers of Vendor Excellence
• In Logistics:
  • Drive projects to improve our network & fulfillment

N.B: Details on specific internships can be provided upon request by mentioning your area of interest on the CV.

Job Requirements
Who are we looking for:

• Early career professional (graduate or up to 2 years professional experience, graduation min 105 or above)
• Strong analytic background needed - support in steering performance thanks to deep understanding of our categories, marketing channels and business line
• Project management abilities to lead selected key transformational project and campaigns for the profitable growth of Jumia
• Enhanced interpersonal skills to deal with external and senior stakeholders (vendors, logistics partners.. etc)
• Flexibility to move on different scope and work on a project mindset where and if need be
• Fast learner, highly analytical & comfortable with numbers
• Enthusiastic about digital businesses & emerging countries
• Street smart, energetic and willing to take on field work
• Leadership abilities
• Agility and strong ability to deal with ambiguity in a multicultural environment
• Preferred SQL, CRM tools, development skills

We Offer

• Graduate-Program acceleration speed & growth
• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment, growing at a very high rate
• A unique opportunity of discovering Africa and having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders