Job Opportunities at Jumia - 4 Positions

We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.

Job Responsibilities

• Owns the local sales strategy and leads its execution to “hunt” and “close” new local partners.
• Generate leads and efficiently regular contact with existing prospects.
• Own relationship and support to on-boarded local partners, ensuring their education, satisfaction and maximizing their business on the keep in program.
• Negotiate commission structures with top sites and partners to ensure maximum profitability.
• Work with the marketing department to create campaigns to attract potential affiliates.
• Own relationship and support to top local partners, ensuring their education, and satisfaction to maximize their performance on the program.
• Follow up on affiliate campaigns to ensure they are kept within budget and maximum ROI is achieved.
• Analyse local channel performance and send weekly performance reports.
• Maximize networking and community building opportunities and by regularly setting up events bringing affiliates together.
• Request artwork for weekly campaigns to be shared with affiliates.
• Send a weekly promotional newsletter to affiliates telling them about the top campaigns, categories and products to promote.
• Localize any central material to fit the local market, for example video tutorials or sales pitch material.
• Occasionally support on central affiliate marketing projects.

Qualifications

• Experience in marketing preferably digital marketing or ecommerce
• Relevant degree in Marketing or related fields.
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills
• Proficiency in Google Analytics

We offer

• A unique education in scaling new internet concepts
• 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

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We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.

Job Responsibilities

• To lead cross-functional teams (commercial & operational) by providing vision and direction to ensure the effective delivery of agreed brand activities and programs.
• Strategically identify key high-level targets; responsible for implementation of our marketing strategies to drive revenue support for event
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• Working on strategic and longer-term Partnership
• Develop deep expertise of the market place, retail dynamics, consumer and shopper behavior.
• Drive consistent flawless execution of brand activation plans by ensuring effective implementation of brand strategies and action plans.
• Act as a contact for the local media agency.
• Partner with the Digital Manager to execute consumer engagement digital activities.
• Partner closely with Commercial, Marketing and Sales team to drive sales, revenue and market share.
• Monitor business results and measure the effectiveness of plans and initiatives, taking corrective actions if necessary
• To work with the Marketing Manager to develop and implement brand collateral for our campaigns at during the year.

Qualifications for the Brand & Partnership Manager Job

• Degree in Marketing/Sales/Business Administration or equivalent qualification
• Experience as a Brand & Partnership Manager within an FMCG organization is essential
• Media buying experience and branding expert.
• Strong Business Development skills
• Ability to create exciting campaigns.
• Can do attitude, with the ability to influence and work in a collaborative way
• Proven implementation ability
• Proactive anid results driven
• Good Interpersonal skills with the ability to influence both upwards and downwards
• Flexibility to adapt plans/challenges as they arise

 We Offer

• A unique education in scaling new internet concept
• 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.

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We are currently looking for a talented person with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees all company social media accounts management
• Develops engaging, creative, innovative content for regularly scheduled posts, which enlighten audiences and promote brand-focused messages
• Coordinates social media messaging with advertising departments, brand managers, and quarterly or seasonal company goals
• Manages social media team members, including copywriters and other content creators, by overseeing their work and offering guidance or direction
• Audits and analyses social media presences, including digital advertising costs and returns
• Analyses social media campaigns with tracking systems to gather visitor data and determine efficacy and areas for social media campaign improvement
• Interviews, hires, and trains social media team members
• Works with other departments to develop social media timelines coinciding with new product releases, ad campaigns, or other brand messages
• Monitors and develops reports on competitor activity within social media spaces

Qualifications

• A university graduate with a degree in communication and media or business administration with a specialization in PR, journalism, marketing or a related area of study.
• Relevant work experience of Over 3 years in a very dynamic and international work environment, Preferably FMCG, tier 1 retail groups, top banking & consulting companies.
• You can successfully build and maintain strong relationships with key journalists and other relevant players.
• You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as presentation skills in English.
• Furthermore, you combine thinking outside the box with rigorous execution. We flourish from creative ideas only when they are delivered with precision.

We offer

• A unique education in launching and scaling new internet concepts.
• Become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world.
• An attractive salary package.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.

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We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.

Job Responsibilities

• Post-deal end-to-end partner management as well as own the P&L impact of each partner, manage product integrations and lead co-marketing efforts with large partners to drive awareness and activations.
• Communicate (physical visits, email, calls, social media) with restaurants to demonstrate Jumia Food’s product offering
• Attend restaurant and food conferences
• Translate partner success requirements to product, marketing and operations teams and drive execution to completion
• Set, track and report on partner performance metrics
• Drive partner strategy and engagement based on data-driven findings
• Lead contract renegotiations to establish a strong working partnership grounded on sustainable economics for both parties
• Evaluate strategic and partnership opportunities, performing a broad range of quantitative and qualitative analyses

Qualifications

• You must be comfortable with targeting new restaurants businesses there by having effective communication and a natural flare for sales and friendly personality
• You must be willing to explore new business models suited to the business and the customers
• Ability to launch and test new business models and build case studies to prove the viability of the new business
• You need to be comfortable with data analysis, after all data is your best friend!
• Able to bring on board relevant partnerships outside of the main core business that can boost customer experience and drive overall growth
• Experience in digital marketing is a plus and ability to use tools and best practises to drive efficiencies within the business
• Exemplary communication and negotiation skills whether face to face, through phone or email
• Ability to persuasively demonstrate product and industry knowledge to clients a must
• Ability to think strategically and merge business, strategy, finance and legal concepts to lead complex, multi-faceted deals
• Knowledge of the restaurant industry a major plus
• You must be tenacious and self motivated
• A minimum of 4 years of proven success in business development, partnerships or equivalent role but we will consider candidates with less experience if they meet our other requirements
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
• Have a competitive edge and thrive in a fast-paced team environment
• Ability to work autonomously. Be very organized and communicate well
• Professional proficiency in English. Swahili and any other language is a plus

We Offer

• A unique education in scaling new internet concept
• 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.