Jobs at BURN

Role And Responsibilities

• Distribution System: Build a lean distribution system that is highly trackable and scalable to distribute large numbers of stoves across Kenya
• Team Management: Recruit a distribution team across 10 countries made up of 1000+ agents and manage their activities, KPIs, and budget.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Own the M&E requirements of this distribution project, including measuring specific social and environmental impact metrics through surveys and home observations.
• Problem Solving: Solve a variety of challenges as they arise in distribution, staffing, partnerships, and financials.
• Reporting: Produce weekly & monthly reports for the senior management team highlighting performance against KPIs.
• Inventory Management: Working with the senior team to develop systems to ensure BURN products are delivered securely to storage locations throughout sub-Saharan Africa
• Strategy: Develop and execute a B2C strategy for distributing 1 million+ wood stoves into rural markets across Africa
• Business Development: Work with BURN’s distribution partners to extend this distribution program to their networks and ensure that they are fulfilling BURN’s registration and evaluation requirements.
• P&L: Build a profitable B2C wood stove Business Unit, including budgeting, P&L, and sales operations

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of working experience in building and running last-mile distribution systems
• Leadership experience – at least 5 years of experience managing a team of hundreds of people
• Detailed knowledge of last-mile and rural logistics and distribution processes
• Knowledge of stock control and management of decentralized storage and distribution sites
• Ability to work autonomously and think on your feet
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good data analysis skills
• Ability to work in a highly demanding dynamic environment

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Duties & Responsibilities

• Generate BI reports, dashboards, and data models with the help of BI tools and MS-Office products and present consequent reports to management.
• Monitor analytics and metrics results and communicate the same effect promptly to user departments and any other external stakeholders.
• Build product biz unit budgets (in conjunction w/ relevant managers), setting: revenue and unit volume targets
• Op-Ex
• Create and drive forward product strategy to optimize profitability, including:
• Geographies
• Sales channels
• Marketing
• Product improvements
• Carbon
• Drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams of the company
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from a profitability perspective
• Assess current competitor offerings and seek opportunities.
• Analyze product requirements and develop appropriate programs to ensure they’re successfully achieved
• Analyze market data to develop sales strategies and define product objectives for effective marketing communications plans

Skills & Experience:

• Strong background in statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, economics, or a related field.
• Wide experience in data analysis especially quantitative and strong computer skills using such tools like Ms. Excel, R, and SPSS and standard business and graphics software on Windows platforms like Power BI, Tableau, etc. and in a big data environment
• Aptitude for quantitative problem solving and precision.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an informal, collegial environment.
• Ability to work effectively under deadlines.
• Compensation and Benefits:
• Competitive compensation competitive with the industry