Current Job Recruitment at Jumia Nigeria

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Jumia - We started operating in Africa in 2012 and since then have launched multiple successful companies such as Jumia, Jumia Market, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs, Jumia Car and Jumia Services. Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, offering excellent opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment. Its economic growth has enabled innovative businesses to flourish and this is where Jumia steps in. We are recruiting to fill the vacant positions below:   Job Title: Sales Performance Analyst Location: Lagos Job Type: Full-time Job Description

• As Sales Performance Analyst,
• you will be tasked with providing the Head of Sales with insightful reporting and analytics to track and monitor performance. Also, you will support the Head of Performance daily to help drive data driven recommendations. If you love data, you will love this role! .

In particular you will:

• Territory Optimization & Alignment
• Develop robust models to quantify workload within sales territories and recommend optimal alignments to sales management.
• Manage the quarterly territory alignment process for the division and sales team(s) of focus.
• Sales Compensation Planning & Analysis
• Support annual sales compensation planning process for the division and team(s) of focus.
• Ensure alignment of incentives with divisional strategic priorities and develop simulation models to minimize financial risk.
• Evaluate best practices to ensure plans are competitive and reward top performance.
• Develop quarterly analysis to assess plan performance throughout the year.
• Sales Performance & KPI Reporting
• Working with sales leadership, identify and measure key performance indicators for the sales organization.
• Develop timely, accurate, and insightful reports and analysis to field sales and sales management related to sales performance and incentives.

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Statistics, Engineering, or other related discipline.
• Prior sales incentives, analysis or operations experience preferably in FMCG sector required
• 4+ years of statistical analysis or data analysis experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Data Modeling and Excel (VLOOKUP’s, Pivot Tables & Macros)
• Experience with at least one key analytics tools to develop actionable insights from multiple data sources (e.g., SPSS, MicroStrategy, Tableau)
• Ability to match/merge databases to facilitate appropriate analyses is required
• Ability to work independently and be a team player

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this position     Job Title: Social Media Manager Location: Lagos Job Type: Full-time Responsibilities

• In this position, you will be responsible for supporting Jumia with the development, execution and maintenance of social media engagement, monitoring, reporting, and analysis within the Marketing team.
• This position ensures all social media content and communication is in brand alignment.

In particular you will:

• Manage day-to-day reactive and proactive communications on all key social media channels (FB, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram etc.)
• Create content calendars and schedules based on the relevancy of trends, promotions, and social activity
• Generate, edit, publish and share daily content across all channels daily
• Continually optimize company pages within each platform
• Develop paid social media campaigns and make sure they are executed properly and on-time across relevant social media channels
• Review competitive social media content and creative, continuously benchmarking other top social media brands and recommending optimizations
• Continually evaluate the Social Media and digital landscape for innovative/new platforms being launched to determine viability for Jumia Brands
• Support the acquisition or production of photographs and eventually videos
• Reviewing and moderating conversation with customers on social channels
• Maintain regular reporting cadence for social media, assessing KPIs and campaign performance
• Support Marketing team with all recaps, reports and programs Identify strategic opportunities to engage target audiences - where are relevant discussions taking place?
• Who are influencers in the ecommerce community that the brand can engage with

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism or Business required.
• 8+ years in social media or agency communication experience required, work in both talent acquisition and brand communications desired
• Excellent writer with experience in multiple writing styles (business, Digital/Social, marketing, technical)
• Knowledge of social media communities, Google Analytics, Facebook Exchange and Account Manager, Spredfast (or equivalent social media listening/analysis program)
• Good knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, primarily Premiere Pro and Photoshop, but not essential
• Familiar with social scheduling software such as Hootsuite and Tweetdeck.
• Knowledgeable about SEO practices.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Social Media platforms (Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, etc.), their respective users and how each platform can be most effectively utilized.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this Position     Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Analyst Location: Lagos Job Type: Full-time Responsibilities

• The Software Quality Assurance Analyst is responsible for creating and implementing testing in support of software development requirements.
• This position ensures the quality, reliability, integrity, and performance of all software products produced for end user consumption by validating that software performs to established guidelines.

In particular you will:

• Contribute to Test Plans
• Analyze, review and assess user requirements, specifications and testability models
• Create Test Case specifications
• Implement tests on all test levels (from design to the execution), evaluate the results and document the deviations from expected results
• Prepare and acquire test data
• Use test tools as required
• Implement Project test documentation and reports
• Improve and implement QA methodologies
• Implement company Test Process within international projects
• Respect and follow the code of conduct, general rules and principles of the company.
• Fulfill other duties which are necessary for company wellbeing, safety and security.

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• At least 2 years working experience as Quality Assurance/Software Tester, preferably in Agile environment
• Knowledge about software lifecycle, test processes and web-based Software Product Assurance
• High level understanding of data management, e.g. MS SQL or other tools
• Experience in Ecommerce is an advantage
• Higher education in IT, Software development or equivalent.
• Proficiency in English. both written and verbal
• Solution oriented and proactive attitude
• Likes problem analysis and solving
• Eager to work in team environment and share knowhow - Easily adapts to new situations and changes
• Has a keen attention to detail and is organised.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this position     Job Title: Head of Financial Planning and Analysis Location: Lagos Job Type: Full time Responsibilities

• Reporting to the CFO, you will establish, manage, and lead the FP&A function.
• This position will play a key role in ensuring the best operational and financial decisions are made while maintaining a strong focus on strategic business planning support, cost management and optimization, historical performance analysis, and complex forecasting.
• Also, this person will manage the planning process, analyze data, and develop strategy for the company’s financial planning and analysis functions.

In particular you will:

• Oversee the financial planning and analysis organization and work with CFO , management team, both local team and central team, to provide value-added insight into the business.
• Prepare a monthly reporting package that includes full financial statements, comprehensive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting, operational dashboard reporting, analysis of key business trends, actual versus budget variances and comprehensive executive level explanations of differences.
• Drive an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives.
• Develop and monitor the company’s annual budget and monthly forecasts, which shall include establishing budget tools, setting timelines and ensuring all budgets are accurate, comprehensive and completed on time.
• Prepare and maintain an efficient and effective process of evaluating, tracking and monitoring all strategic planning activity for the company with appropriate links to the annual budget and strategic plan.
• Provide a high level of thought process to drive improvement; recommend areas for improvement and lead projects to enhance the reporting and analytical infrastructure.
• Supervise and manage the performance of a team of FP&A professionals.
• Routinely communicate business unit and company financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics, identifying risks and opportunities related to the achievement of the company’s financial plans.
• Influence the accuracy and effectiveness of the corporate accounting consolidation and closing process through analytical review and trend analysis.
• Develop and execute financial modelling tools to allow for routine analytical reviews of company financial and operational performance, new projects and decision making.

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in a fast-paced corporate environment preferably in a similar role
• Professional Qualification like ACCA & ACA is an added advantage
• Possess the proven ability to lead, manage and develop a high performing team
• Have FMCG, retail experience
• Experience of FP&A within a matrix organisation (budgeting, forcasting, planning and analysis)
• Demonstrate excellent analytical skills; good knowledge of Microsoft core programs - Excel (including pivot tables and macros), word and power point
• Have an understanding of international accounting practices and standards
• Experience of having managed and improved budgeting and forecasting processes
• Support senior members of the business timely, actionable insight
• Experience in preparing, analysing, and implementing accounting and reporting requirements

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this position     Job Title: Senior PHP Developer Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time Responsibilities

• Be part of an agile team that develops smart logistics solutions on a service oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies

In particular you will:

• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team (Backend developers, DevOps, QA engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
• Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
• Write module, well-organized code.
• Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications
• Take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in web development with Object Oriented Programming
• Excellent knowledge of PHP5 or other OOP language
• Proficient with MySQL or other leading RDBMS
• Experienced in web server-side and client-side technologies
• Working knowledge of MVC frameworks (Zend Framework, Yii, Symfony2 or similar)
• Clear understanding of the Internet Protocol Suite
• Experienced in Version Control technologies (GIT, SVN)
• Aware of Performance and Security topics on web development

Required Skills:

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this position     Job Title: Manager, Fixed Asset and General Ledger Location: Lagos Job Description

• To ensure that fixed assets, prepayments, accruals and the company’s accounts receivable position are properly stated.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day to day administration, maintenance and development of the Company’s Fixed Assets and General Ledger.
• Assist with the development and implementation of policies, procedures and processes as they relate to asset management and asset accounting systems.
• Track and record movement of all assets including acquisition, depreciation, transfers, disposal/ impairment of assets in accordance with company policies and IFRS.
• Liaise and work closely with relevant departments to ensure all policies, procedures and processes relating to assets are in line with IFRS and the company’s overall direction on assets.
• Analyse General Ledger Accounts, to identify costs that should be capitalized and included in fixed assets
• Prepare capitalization entries and monitor reports to ensure that assets are correctly accounted for into the fixed assets records.
• Plan and co-ordinate physical verification of the Company’s Assets.
• Reconcile the fixed asset register or sub-ledger, or the subsidiary asset management system to the general ledger control account for each class of fixed assets, and resolving any reconciling items
• Maintain files for all supporting documentation for fixed assets and capital projects
• Provide information for fixed asset reporting, such as summarizing financial activity for inclusion in the property, plant and equipment section of the financial statements
• Coordinate the physical inventory process for fixed assets.

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, with 8 years minimum in a fast-paced corporate environment preferably in a similar role
• Professional qualification like ICAN, ACCA, ACA is a plus
• Good knowledge of IFRS, local and global Management Accounting Trends and practices
• Excellence in analytical and logical reasoning
• Good Knowledge of Fixed Asset Management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word& Power point)
• Proficiency in the use of an ERP.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this position       Job Title: Chief Marketing Officer Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time Department: Marketing Job Description

• We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.

Responsibilities

• The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for overseeing the planning, development and execution of Jumia Nigeria’s marketing, viral expansion and advertising initiatives.
• Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the CMO's primary responsibility is to generate revenue by increasing visibility and sales through successful marketing for the entire organization, using market research, partnerships, affiliates, pricing, product marketing, marketing communications, advertising and public relations.

In particular you will:

• Develop marketing plan and in line with overall business strategy and goals.
• Custodian of total marketing, branding and overall marketing performance
• Overseeing the CRM process, ROI and managing closely agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - customer acquisition, repeat purchase, Average Order Value [AOV] etc
• Responsible for Marketing Analytics. Oversee market research and competitive intelligence for quick decision making
• Prepare, own, implement and control of marketing budget
• Collaborate effectively with other members of leadership team to ensure alignment of marketing with commercial and business plans
• Utilize superior understanding of consumer insights and deep knowledge of local trends to identify innovative ideas for profitable growth and execute them
• Managing relationships with Central team in a matured and cohesive manner that brings the best of Central and local collaboration to the benefit of the company

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or an advanced degree in Marketing and Business (MBA)
• 8+ years of marketing in a consumer internet business, bringing experience building strong brands for companies with best-in-class digital experiences for large, global audiences, preferably in the consumer goods industry
• 5+ years of data-driven marketing with strong success implementing consumer acquisition and/or retention marketing campaigns with clear business objectives and targets.
• Track record building and leading a high-performing, cross-functional team of at least 15 people across branding, PR, digital, analytics, acquisition, and retention.
• Expertise generating, prioritizing, testing, and delivering on ideas that could drive 10 percent growth as well as 10x growth.
• Self-motivated individual with a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• Strong managerial experience
• Strong and relevant relationships in marketing agencies and other local partners

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply for this position   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.

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