Regional Category Manager at Jumia

About The Role

The Strategic Jumia Partner(SJP) at Jumia is the owner of the P&L of one or several Brands across all our markets. The SJP will be interacting with C-Levels internally as well as managing a team of key accounts across all countries ( reporting to CCO country & Category Director). He / she will also have to build tremendous relationships externally with top executives at brand and distributor side.

The SJP is responsible for delivering a world-class customer and vendor experience thanks to the right assortment, perfect online ergonomics, the best prices and the most innovative marketing campaigns.

Your Position As SJP Entails

• Achieving the targets of revenue and gross margin for your category and your dedicated key accounts
• Building, managing, animating the key account management team across all markets – around 20 people
• Developing tight professional / personal relationships with MEA MDs and MEA CEOs of key brands (Lenovo, Intel,Groupseb etc)
• Being recognized as an expert on your category in MEA by all stakeholders
• Organizing key commercial events such as Black Friday, Jumia Anniversary, Mobile Week. The SJP will coordinate all commercial teams related to his/her Brand to ensure a flawless execution in the event preparation
• Becomi ng an expert of your category with a perfect knowledge of the different products / pricing / market trends
• Handling pricing and assortment strategy through your team
• Building a very friendly user interface for our vendors and our customers by being involved in our Tech developments

Job requirements:

• Strong management and inter-personal skills
• Very detail oriented
• Strong Analytical
• Strong drive
• Exceptional commercial skills
• Ability to anticipate, structure and organize
• Autonomous
• Resistant to stress
• Finding simple solutions to complex problems

What We Offer

• A unique opportunity in implementing and executing new ideas for a thriving e-commerce business
• The opportunity to work with professional and dynamic teams in and outside your local country
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation