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.
What you will be doing
- Enabling faster and better decision-making by our leaders as well as automation of processes
- Execution of diverse analytical projects using statistical as well as machine learning techniques to
help optimize our business processes - Developing new dashboards; maintaining and optimizing existing reports
- Data exploration to understand current data availability; data mining in order to propose new
analysis and evaluate the feasibility of fulfilling new information requests from management - Ensuring that the data contained within our business reporting is accurate, clean and in line with
the definitions as per the business function owner - Contribute to preparing data requests for systems teams in order to facilitate the automation of
the reporting domain - Planning and tracking own work against business and project deadlines.
What we are looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or IT-related field
- Proficiency in SQL languages and in Microsoft applications (PowerBI, Excel) is highly desirable
- Knowledge of statistical programming languages like R and/or Python is a “plus”
- Strong communicator, a strategic mindset with good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in English
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
