Sorting Center Manager at Jumia

What’s this job all about?

Sorting Manager will help define and steer the line-haul strategy for company operations to maximize delivery efficiency, lower costs and ensure best practices

The main challenges are described as below:

• Managing the handover between outbound and Sellers packages received from vendor drop-off and vendor pick-up centers
• Ensuring the timely scan at all the legs and updating in systems for movement as transferable unit
• Designing the pick-ups cut-off times with the 3PL and controlled fleet
• Managing and coordinating for 3PL pick-up as per the cut-off times aligned
• Performance tracking for informing courier account managers for any delay and corrective measures
• Responsible for any mismatch of shipments and all exception handling for shipments in transit and at the network hub
• Ensuring same day shipping for all Jumia Express shipments with 100% adherence
• Training all the partners/ hub for any new / existing processes for smooth operations
• Developing a business case to validate the movement for a new sorting center with capacity estimates and volume projections which can be handled
• Finalizing the property and managing the contract, and any license related requirements
• Formulating all the capex requirements and getting it approved from the top management
• Involved in all the procurement cycle and purchasing of tools and equipment’s for set-up
• Designing the network layout and getting it built as per plan
• Responsible for capacity planning and hiring plan for the new facility

Required Skills

• A Bachelors 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

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity to help build & shape a growing African ecommerce giant.
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team.
• Unparalleled personal and professional growth (our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures).