Key Account Manager - Advertising at Jumia Nigeria

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 and 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 and 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 analyze site traffic and user demographics in support of online campaign proposals and client presentations.
• Source, execute, optimize, and evaluate all elements of each media campaign. Be the campaign owner from strategy to execution.
• Set up all measurement metrics and KPIs for each campaign.
• Provide key learnings reports quarterly with recommendations for future.

Requirements: Education, Skills, & Experience:

• BSc/HND in Marketing or in a related field. An Advertising certificate or qualification will be advantageous.
• A minimum of 3 years’ sales experience. Digital advertising sales will be advantageous, but not mandatory.
• Interest in delivering and supporting Jumia in a client-facing role.
• Interest in client-side positions and digital marketing initiatives.
• Ability to excel in team environments.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Passionate about advertising, marketing, data, analytics, and technology.
• Should be able to balance a creative and business approach.
• Must be passionate about online advertising and marketing and can create and maintain good relationships with clients.
• Able to identify and realize revenue opportunities related to online advertising.

Ability to live the following values:

• Delivers customer satisfaction;
• Leads Completely;
• Embraces and Drives Change;
• Goes the extra mile;
• Is adventurous, open-minded, and creative;
• Creates fun and a positive team Spirit.

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders