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:
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- Monitoring Gross Profit P&L performance vs budget:
- Building analysis to ensure smart reporting on the performance across all categories, leading to action-oriented recommendations (at Cat1 / Cat2 / Cat 3 + Seller Level at GP1 level).
- Improving our GP2 by optimizing seller and customer passthrough and adapting the commission matrix to reflect. price leadership opportunities and scale our Value-Added Services.
- Owner of developing the next generation for revenue streams focused on providing services to sellers (Values Added Services):
- Take ownership of VAS products including elaborating on the product value proposition, target market, application scenarios, key differentiators and USPs, benchmarking, trends, and vision
- Monitoring, leading, and accelerating the adoption of these services
- Designing action plans to be executed by KAMs
- Reconciliation of Marketing Contribution (Deal tracker vs booked by Finance) + back margin follow-up.
- Making sure that all revenue streams are booked and correctly implemented.
- Inventory Management: Management of POs (Retail): making sure that we inbound. the right assortment at the right quantity and with a price leadership
- Management of COs (Consignment): CP coordination / execution of Inventory to ensure a healthy rolling stock
- Making sure that all products in our WH are visible on the website.
- Making sure we give visibility to best sellers
- Making sure that they are picked as collections in the consumer needs (Merchandising campaigns).
- Making sure that the seller subscribes to visibility services (SP, VAS, etc...)
- Making sure that we reprice the slow movers (PSA, Phoenix)
- Coordinate Performance Steering Actions with KAMs so that they can negotiate deep discounts with sellers to animate a clearance campaign.
- Repricing of Forfeited Items: Coordinating with IT to make sure that the products are live on the website.
- Reprice the items to maximize our margin while ensuring that the items move quickly
What we are looking for
- 5+ years’ experience in top tier consulting firms, 3+ years’ experience in top tier e-commerce firms, 3+ years in top tier investment banks or audit firms
- BSC in Accounting, Economics or Finance and should be power BI and data analysis Inclined
- Passion for ecommerce and its ability to transform the economic landscape
- Extremely structured and analytical
- Very organized and ability to structure stakeholders’ agenda
- Strong ability to convince and drive local top management on group Great interpersonal skills to influence people.
- Excellent communication skills
- Resilient
- Autonomous
- Finding simple solutions to complex problems
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
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
