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Job Purpose/Mission  

• The Freight Projects Manager is a critical link between upstream and downstream operations to ensure the smooth flow of goods from origin to destination by providing custodianship over quality freight services, while isolating, sealing, and implementing opportunities for cost optimization through efficient selection, contracting, onboarding, monitoring, and continuous improvement of freight vendor services for sea, air, rail, and land freights.  
• This position requires acute internal/external relationships management skills to communicate with cross-functional teams and partners, including supply chain, operations, markets, freight service vendors and the senior leadership, as well as data driven monitoring of partner’s performance through KPIs monitored daily, weekly, monthly to identify and implement improvements in freight processes and services. 

Responsibilities 

• Manage and optimize Sea Freight services from all providers (vendors). Track, measure, report and evaluate performance to optimize product flow and service costs.  
• Liaise with service providers via daily/weekly/ monthly/ quarterly (as applicable) meetings to understand issues and barriers to meeting performance target and driving future improvements. 
• Develop and implement performance improvement plans, leveraging internal cross functional expertise and resources. Report performance and provide insights via weekly/ monthly/ quarterly (as applicable) forums with senior leadership (or procurement/ sourcing team as required). 
• Track, assess and resolve all issues, providing mitigation to management and senior leadership. Actively identify, document and lead opportunities to continuously enhance efficiency and quality delivered by external and internal partners. 
• Facilitate vendor searches, contracting, onboarding, and portfolio benchmarking and with internal stakeholders as required. Negotiating contracts with carriers to find the best rates for freight shipments. 
• Establish professional relationships with vendors and suppliers to develop new business opportunities. Maintain awareness to sea freight operators of service quality and cost, review carrier choices, service frequency, transit times to ensure a competitive advantage. 
• Ensure vendors are continuously supported and aware of performance goals and contractual obligations. Work closely with the department quality supervisor to monitor and control monthly KPIs which enable company performance requirements. 
• To establish and maintain business relations with Customs, Agents, Brokers, Shipping Lines, suppliers, or any other local business partners; negotiating contracts and setting clear standards for the vendors to deliver agreed KPIs consistently. 
• Become the contact window to provide business support to internal and external freight partners and networks by enabling the team to provide timeline responses including solutions and proposals for further optimization opportunities. 
• To support country operations and supply chain customers to develop Sea Freight Operating Model and drive improve KPIs. Initiate corrective route plans to improve department service, quality, and data led cross-functional decision making for key freight results. 
• Reviewing shipping documentation to ensure compliance with company standards and federal regulations. Maintaining records of all incoming and outgoing shipments, including tracking numbers, dates, and customer information 
• Coordinating with insurance companies to ensure that cargo is covered for damage or loss during transport. 
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders (finance, supply chain, operations) to align favorable incoterms for shipping to the 9 markets in EEA. 
• Communicating with key internal and external customers regarding shipment details and delivery schedules. 

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.  

We believe that great managers: 

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results. 
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness. 
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility. 
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening. 
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging. 

Experience and skills: 

Experience: 

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in freights management, vendor management, shipping, clearing, and forwarding, imports / exports business. 
• Proven track record of developing and implementing freight management and optimization processes that drive business results and cost reductions in fast-paced supply chain environments. 
• Experience and comfort dealing with contractual freight agreements that may impact critical business decisions, procurement, bidding, and tendering processes. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use performance related data to drive key decisions. 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams – experience to speed up decision making is important. 
• Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to develop and motivate a team. 

Qualifications: 

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in operations management, supply chain management, freight forwarding, procurement of imports / exports services or international business management or other closely related fields. 
• A master’s degree in business management or financial management, contractual law or related field is an added advantage. 
• Possesses critical certifications in supply chain planning such as CSCP, CPIM, CLTD, CIPS, SCPro, or other relevant supply chain management association certifications. 

Language(s):  

• English 
• French is a plus (for West Africa). 

 Technology: 

• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, NAV, Oracle is very important. 
• Experience with other supply chain software and tools such as Streamline, JDA, Logility, Infor are an added advantage. 
• Advanced user analytics tools such as Tableau, Mzee, PowerBi, Excel, are important for this role. 
• Experience working with customs interfaces for declarations, import, assessment, are an added advantage. 

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Job Purpose/Mission  

• Engie Energy Access is seeking a talented and motivated Product Manager to join our rapidly growing team. This position is a key role within the Digital Product Team and the successful candidate will own the long-term roadmap of the internal/backend team.
• The Product Manager will collaborate closely with other Product Managers, Design, Engineering and QA, and other business functions to bring the roadmap to life.  
• The product manager will be required to drive key strategic initiatives focused on improving efficiency and quality across multiple company verticals, in collaboration with different functions within the global and country teams.
• Using data driven insights to make recommendations and validate projects to be implemented, as well as drive project rollout at scale. 

Responsibilities 

• Work with key business stakeholders to identify key opportunities for digital to positively impact our customers and the business. 
• Communicate the product vision and the voice of the customer to your engineering team, promote engagement and excitement for the product. 
• Bethe voice of the customer (internal and external) within the business by researching, gathering, and evaluating user requirements, ensuring that insights generated influence business objectives and product road map. 
• Draw insights from experiments, data exploration, user feedback, and market research to inform project prioritization and feature design. Prioritise ruthlessly, don’t be afraid of saying no, champion progress over perfection. 
• Manage the entire lifecycle of the product, collaborating with users, design, development team, and other stakeholders to navigate from product conception to go live. 
• Create user stories and detailed specs, working closely with the development team and cross-functional teams to ensure that product/features delivered are within scope and meet business expectations and timelines set. 
• Be the voice of the engineering team for the business stakeholders; communicate any issues and changes to the scope or schedule of your product. 
• Prepare and facilitate the key conversations and meetings that promotes stakeholder engagement and ensures project progress. 
• Ensure comprehension and competence of the team with new tools; take feedback critically and iterate for an exceptional user experience. 

 Experience and Skills

Experience: 

• 3-5 years of experience developing and launching software or data products 
• Demonstrated ability to learn new product areas quickly and successfully drive product expansion into new geographies and demographies. 
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain complex back-end systems at scale and a proven intuition for designing robust tools and processes that can adapt quickly and grow. 
• Good working knowledge of the human-centered design approach and agile methodologies  
• Strong analytical, quantitative, problem-solving and project management skills  
• Excellent time management and organizational skills, with a strong ability to prioritize 
• Attention to detail even when working under pressure 
• Education and/or work experience in Africa 

Language(s):  

• English 
• French is a plus 

 Technology: 

• MySQL database familiarity 
• An understanding of Human Centred Design and working UX / UI experience 
• Experience using issue tracking software, e.g. JIRA 

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Job Purpose/Mission  

• The Demand and Supply Planning Manager is the link between the demand and supply side of the business.
• The incumbent is responsible for demand management and aggregating such for ordering of products and materials from suppliers to delivery in sales countries.
• As part of the S&OP team, the D&S Manager plays a critical role to drive the process, implement tactical elements of the S&OP, and enables countries to meet both their revenue and profitability targets by optimizing inventory ordering and stock holding. 
• You are a planner, and an achiever, driven by both short term and long-term delivery of key process milestones within stringent timelines. 

Responsibilities 

• Custodianship over the sales and operations planning process and tools to deliver acceptable inventory orders per country based on sales forecasts; plan, aggregate, run approval process for orders, disseminate order information. 
• Demand planning including review sales historical and forecasts with local teams, review technical center spares/swap consumption vs Quality failure rate to optimize inventory turnover), integrate New Product Introductions (NPI) into demand planning, review B2B Sales integrate into demand plan - conduct scenario-based analyses to evaluate launch options and develop contingency plans for new products, including Phase-In/Out of products. 
• Build product volume forecasts based on historical demand information (or statistical model) & Marketing intelligence (future commercial insights) & product mix forecasts based on historical mix information performances. 
• Supports Regional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process with marketing/sales and commercial finance to align market and financial requirements with manufacturing/Supply capabilities. 
• Manage the weekly MPS (Material Planning System) updates and process to control end-to-end supply chain view. 
• Create and track replenishment orders and shipments for continuous supply of stock to countries to ensure availability; mitigate on key service levels risks and countermeasure on backorders.  
• Load, maintain and ensure integrity of item-level product forecasts in E2E Planning System 
• Responsible for translation of Demand Plan into USD value spend Plan in partnership with Finance based on latest supplied COGS information; identifies gaps between latest financial plan and demand plan defining and driving actions to understand/reconcile key differences. 
• Support key metrics: customer service, inventory metrics (gross/net dollars, WOC), and Slow Moving/Obsolete (SLOB) inventory, Back Order Value ($) & on time adherence to S&OP cycle – all in partnership with supply chain partners, and markets. 
• Create and maintain a centralized shipment tracking records and status for all countries; issue regular information to country operations on upcoming shipments, trigger dates for pre-assessment and verification, and destination port arrivals to avoid port storage and demurrage costs. Track estimated date of arrival at Country warehouse. 
• Ensure strong alignment with global/regional/country partners on key S&OP touchpoints including demand validation and sign-off processes – hold pre-S&OP meeting with each country to deliver cyclical demand plans - coordinate order approval meeting with top management stakeholders. 
• Lead and participate in projects that directly affect the planning and ordering function including inventory management projects, reducing inventory shrinkage, increasing turnover, improving inventory management data accuracy. 
• Create and implement metrics to measure on time ordering of materials both for sales and warranty fulfilment by the countries, and order fulfillment by the Upstream supply chain; reconcile actuals vs. plan. 
• Create awareness and training for countries on improvements / evolutions in the ordering process. 

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.  

We believe that great managers: 

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results. 
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness. 
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility. 
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening. 
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging. 

Knowledge and skills  

Experience: 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain/operations management, demand management/planning. 
• Skills in data analytics, forecasting, production planning, inventory management  
• Technical knowledge of formulating policies, processes and procedures suiting multiple operations to increase efficiency of the planning function. 
• Ability to work with cross-cultural teams and bring together diverse teams – cut through barriers to achieve compliance. 
• Ability to direct supply chain team's efforts in identifying critically overstocked inventory with short shelf-life and propose solutions. 

Qualifications: 

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in operations and supply chain management or other closely related fields such as industrial management/engineering. 
• A master’s degree in business management or financial management is an added advantage. 
• Certifications in supply chain planning such as CSCP, CPIM, CLTD, CIPS, or other relevant supply chain management association certifications. 

Language(s):  

• English 
• French is a plus (for West Africa) 

 Technology: 

• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, NAV, Oracle is very important. 
• Experience with other demand planning software and tools such as Streamline, JDA, Logility, Infor are an added advantage. 
• Advanced user analytics tools such as Tableau, Mzee, PowerBi, Excel, are important for this role.