Job Vacancies at Jumia Nigeria

Job Objective

• The senior account manager (zonal manager) will lead the strategy and project manage all initiatives and pilots related to last mile delivery.
• Have either individually or as part of a team, created or improved ways of leveraging the company’s existing or potential assets to fulfill goods to consumers.

Responsibilities

• Managing the talent pool of Jumia Services and building a strong leadership team in Delivery
• Actively design and steer CXP and VXP excellence projects along with Local and Central operations leaders
• Design and own end to end the Last mile unit costs strategy to meet both our requirements of CXP/VXP and unit economics targets
• Actively feed and contribute to the system roadmap design to deliver the required instruments for this logistics success
• Leading the scale up and expansion of last mile footprint (3PL expansion, pick up station expansion, Delivery Associates hiring and expansion).
• Own and create the 3PL community management for Jumia 
• Manage and improve fleet management practices, team and cost of operation Create a culture of best-in-class material handling in Last mile
• Lead key transformations in supply chain (or in partnership), allowing our last mile hubs to receive product faster and more often without increasing costs of delivery
• Ability to work cross functionally with key fulfillment partners such as Logistics, supply chain and other partners, such as IT

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university; Degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain
• Proficient in Microsoft Office – Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Email, Internet etc.
• Proficient in Google Office Suite  – Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Gmail, etc.

Relevant Experience:

• 5 years minimum experience, logistics operations
• Experience in strategy and complex network management
• Good Knowledge of the Logistical Operations in the local market is a plus.

Skills and Competencies:

• Process oriented, well-organized with a high level of attention to detail
• Data oriented with strong analytical and conceptual skills
• Communicate effectively with counterparts in Logistics Department
• Excellent team management skills
• Dynamic and able to work in a fast-paced environment

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 

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Job Responsibilities

• Provide system support and resolve issues for all tools used by various teams
• As local product owner, provide inputs to Central development team on new features required by the business
• Lead training of new systems or features for Jumia Services Nigeria
• Aptitude for organization, flexibility and producing results in a fast paced environment.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with HTML, CSS and  PHP
• Previous experience in an IT support role
• Good analysis, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Able to quickly master new systems
• Detail-oriented and self-starter with strong written and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently, and demonstrable common sense
• Team player with a positive “Can-do” attitude
• Computer literate and proficient in standard office applications Word, Excel and Outlook
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Well organised with effective time and activity management skills
• Enthusiasm and willingness to continuously learn new things
• Goal orientated, able to meet and exceed goals
• Proactive with great organisation and time management skills
• Excellent attention to detail.

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.

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Job Objective: As Key Account Manager, you will have the end-to-end responsibility of the customer experience and growth of the key vendors assigned to you. Your role is to bring in the relevant assortment, design targeted promotions, and manage key vendors in our marketplace. Constant interface with the Commercial operations, Vendor experience & Marketing team ​ Responsibilities:

• Ensure continuous growth of our existing business by owning pricing and promotions strategy, working with marketing teams to improve product content and visibility; and managing stock availability by coordinating teams across the business to bring the product to the customer.
• Complete Sales performance of the 3c’s Categories, vendors, merchant management and monitoring of sales strategies with a view to increasing the Business unit’s Net Margin Position (NMP) & Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV).
• Customer acquisition through Value Offering, Sales Campaign Management, etc.
• Create and present strategic insights for the Business unit to gain alignment of major initiatives at multiple levels of the organization.
• Analyze & Present post – promotion analysis for retail and Marketplace, quantifying impact to brand and category.
• Define and optimize curation/assortment selection strategy for your portfolio ensuring relevance of selection/styling to optimize revenues and sales velocity.
• Support product and content creation process to increase assortment live.
• Plan and maintain constant stock availability.
• Trend Spotting: Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps
• Build weekly marketing plan, contribute determining which products/subcategories will be promoted on website and through all marketing channels (Newsletters, Facebook, etc).
• Develop strong analytics to evaluate daily/weekly/monthly performance and optimize further marketing, pricing, and product selection
• Develop and manage subcategories under Jumia. Maintain the P&L and develop annual and quarterly category strategic plans by conducting financial analysis of the business.
• Manage the entire physical product lifecycle, from strategic activities to tactical implementation, including product portfolio idea generation
• Work closely with the vendor management team to identify vendors and negotiate contracts to ensure best quality and costs.
• Partner with Jumia Services to improve product availability, reduce costs, and minimize our working capital investment. Work together with system teams to identify main opportunities for process automation and efficiency gains.
• Influence large number stakeholders across the business; work closely with the team members and other business groups to deliver results and be comfortable in presenting projects and results to senior leadership on a regular basis.

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 

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Responsibilities
What you will be doing:

• Be part of the Jumia Engineering team and play a key role in Jumia's technology plan
• Be a role model for the Jumia Values 
• Work effectively cross-functionally discussing and identifying new opportunities for projects and features
• Align architectural decisions with and across Engineering teams, ensuring the progress towards the target vision for the Jumia platform
• Arbitrate on technical decisions within your scope
• Directly contribute to systems design and write code to set the example of what technical excellence looks like in Jumia
• Coach engineers in your scope
• Ensure system reliability and compliance
• Find a group of humble and intelligent people ready to make you grow and to grow with you
• Change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World through your team.

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• 8+ years experience as an individual contributor working with agile methodologies
• A proactive challenger mindset: if there's room for improvement, you'll say it
• A solver mindset: when there is a will, there is a way
• A strong business sense: you understand the impact of your work
• The ability to be autonomous and to own your decisions
• The ambition to grow the company and within the company
• Full professional English proficiency.

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.

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Main Responsibilities

• You will be part of an agile team that develops e-commerce, smart logistics, and payment solutions.
• Your work will integrate a service-oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies and software development practices; You will own your services and be responsible for end-to-end
• You will take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
• You will change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World one line of code at a time.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience 
• Experienced with object Oriented Programming
• Experience with development in Java (and ideally Spring boot framework)
• Acquainted with building testable code, unit tests and/or integration tests
• Knowledgeable of software design and architecture patterns
• Knowledgeable of SQL and relational databases
• Fluent in English

The following gives you a good head start:

• Experience in another programming languages, namely : Go, NodeJS
• DevSecOps mindset
• Aware of fault-tolerance and secure programming concepts
• Experienced in some of the following concepts: message queuing, caching, NoSQL, SOA, CI/CD, application and system monitoring
• Experienced in some of the following technologies: Maven, Gradle, Hibernate, Kafka, Redis, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarCube, Jenkins
• Experienced working with Scrum processes.

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.

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Responsibilities

• Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
• Work in a team-based development environment with modular code base, peer reviews and pull requests, with disciplined use of source code control and documentation
• Constant aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check
• Be part of a fast and agile development process
• Contribute actively and proactively to optimize applications, processes, and methodologies
• Be willful to help peers, being part of a collaborative environment for development, testing, and automation tasks.

Requirements
Academic & Trades Qualifications:

• Academic background in IT or equivalent
• Knowledge in algorithms and distributed systems
• Proficiency in English
• 3 year of experience.

Others:

• Strong working experience (+3 years) and knowledge with Golang
• Experience with Golang Web Frameworks (e.g. Gin Gonic, Rebel)
• Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
• Working experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
• Experienced with testing layers (unit, integration and functional testing) and version control technologies (e.g. GIT)
• Understanding of Queuing systems (e.g. SQS, RabbitMQ).

Personal Skills:

• Eager to work in team environment and share knowledge
• Likes problem analysis and solving
• Enthusiast and an interested in technologies and innovation
• Solution oriented and proactive attitude, in parallel with “Get Things Done” mindset.

The following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out:

• Experience with other languages like PHP and JS
• Prior experience with of the following technologies: Apache Kafka, Couchbase, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Redis
• Experience with microservices oriented architecture
• Familiar with SCRUM methodology.

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.