Pricing and Automation Analyst at Jumia Nigeria

As a pricing and automation analyst, you will

• Be responsible for the pricing leadership of Jumia Nigeria
• Select and scan the relevant products vs. the competition
• Share updated price data with the commercial team  
• Lead the execution of daily and mid-term actions to maintain price leadership 
• Identify issues and improvement areas that you will structure, analyze, and report to management while proposing plans for solving them
• Challenge the existing status quo and push continuously for higher results (by improving processes and executing seamlessly). 

Lead the development of key commercial automation projects in close relation with HCO 

• Leverage your detailed knowledge of local commercial operations and your technical skills to develop scalable automated solutions, to be tested and launched locally and scaled to other countries. Those solutions aim at:
  • 1/ Fueling our growth through price competitiveness and stock availability 
  • 2/ Improving our unit economics 
  • 3/Saving time for commercial team members to focus on higher value-added tasks

To conduct these missions, we expect you to 

• Focus on impact and results
• Be analytical and structured in your approach, while showing a strong bias for action
• Be proactive, challenge the existing, make propositions
• Embrace the complexity of our business and organization and translate it into actionable insights and plans
• Give visibility to the team on your actions, blockers, and results to mobilize our support when needed

Expected Technical and Personal Skills

• Top Business and Engineering Schools and Universities
• Proficiency in Google Sheets (advanced functions, queries, scripts), PowerBI, SQL, and Python 
• Ability to analyze large data sets to make strategic decisions
• Experience in e-commerce or retail

KPIs to evaluate the FTE

• Pricing leadership %
• PSA pricing completion %
• Automation project assessment