About Jumia:
Jumia is a leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Its mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to customers, while helping businesses grow as they use Jumia's platform to better reach and serve customers.
Jumia is built around a marketplace and supported by a proprietary logistics business [Jumia Logistics] and a digital payment and fintech platform [Jumia Pay]. With over 3,000 employees, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating a sustainable impact in Africa.
In April 2019, Jumia was the first Tech company in Africa to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
About the Role
Oversee warehouse management. Facilitating the Inbound, Inventory, Outbound and After Sales departments to achieve their KPIs and targets. Process standardization and optimization to improve the overall efficiency of the warehousing operations for Jumia Services.
Responsibilities
Operations management
- Create KPIs and implement simple systems for evaluating and improving performance
- Use order life analysis to monitor end-to-end warehouse process and improve operational efficiency
- Setup and continuously improve warehouse operations processes
- Design dashboards to easily identify bottleneck areas of the operational processes
- Oversee daily reporting on Backlog / Incidents/Change/Problem tickets and SLA status
- Liaise with the technical teams as well as the local teams on all matters related to warehousing systems
- Controlling Out-of-Stock (OOS)
Finance, Stock, Fulfilment and Warehouses
- Ensure that all financial processes associated with warehouse for each financial month, quarter and year end are executed accurately and in a timely manner at Executive level
- Ensure all necessary processes are in place to ensure no stock is lost in the warehouse, stock counts are accurate, and any variances are fully investigated.
- Ensure adequate stock management tools and processes are in place to enable efficient working across Jumia online shops
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelors. Degree (Business Administration, Logistics- supply chain, Economics, Engineering)
- Relevant professional certification in Logistics or supply chain management will be an added advantage
- Minimum of 6 years FMCG, E-Commerce or warehouse management experience
- Demonstrated competency in data reporting and analysis
- Experience or high level of comfort in logistics operations
- Experience of E-commerce fulfillment best practice, with an understanding of customer and seller behavior
- Self-Driven and great independent follow-through Ability
- Strong entrepreneurial skills, leadership, and drive
We Offer:
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce 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
