Head of Advertising - Jumia at Jumia Nigeria

Job Objective

• We are looking for an individual with strong advertising experience to guide the local Jumia Advertising roadmap!
• Aside from the opportunity to work in e-commerce with a diverse, innovative and dynamic team, we can offer you flexible working hours and a fun and fast pace work environment!

Responsibilities

• Understand the local media landscape and look for opportunities to impact media plans with new partners and formats.
• Actively leverage your network of agencies, brands & partners in promoting usage of Jumia Advertising
• Proactively lead client relationships by leveraging traffic and platform capabilities to drive the client’s business and marketing objectives.
• Collaborate with our Commercial Team and Key Accounts to develop clear business objectives, high impact digital advertising & marketing programs and measurement of those programs.
• Manage projects across cross-functional teams and with the client to ensure successful delivery of those programs.
• Present findings and results to Key Accounts Client Executives.
• Act as a knowledgeable industry leader in online marketing, analytics, and targeting.
• Improve and share project management processes, standards, templates and best practices both internally and with client teams.
• Maximize revenue inflow from these client accounts.
• Attain monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets related to your client account portfolio.
• Actively identify and pursue new advertising client accounts.
• Conceptualize, verbalize, document, test, propose and present new online revenue generating opportunities.
• Use web analytics tools to analyse site traffic and user demographics in support of online campaign proposals and client presentations.
• Source, execute, optimise and evaluate all elements of each media campaign. Be the bridge from strategy to execution.
• Set up all measurement metrics and KPIs for each campaign.
• Provide key learnings reports quarterly with recommendations for future plans.

Qualification & Experience

• An advertising / marketing or related qualification
• Interest in delivering and supporting Jumia in a client-facing role.
• Ability to excel in team environments.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Passionate about advertising, marketing, data, analytics and technology.
• Minimum of 3+ years with agency experience.
• Minimum of 4+ years digital advertising sales.
• Interest in client-side positions and digital marketing initiatives.
• Must be able to balance a creative and business approach.
• Must be passionate about online advertising and marketing.
• The ability to create and maintain good relationships with client accounts.
• Able to identify and realize revenue opportunities related to online advertising.
• Delivers customer satisfaction;
• Leads completely.

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.