Head of Commercial Planning at Jumia Nigeria

Jumia is Africa’s leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC.

We are looking for talented people with a passion for Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey in the position below:

Job Title: Head of Commercial Planning – Jumia

Location: Lagos
Department: Commercial
Type: Full Time

Job Objective

• The role holder plays a key role within the company, interacts with all the departments to drive performance, lead commercial planning and deliver data driven analysis.
• Deliver on business plan and take lead on the commercial strategic orientation which will bring an exceptional growth in sales value& volume, the margin and the conversion rate.

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of Commercial Planners and Merchandizer ensuring the team is properly structured, motivated and performing.
• Delivering growth, ensuring pro-active turn around plans leveraging on the power of the marketplace, bringing direction, feedback and support to the whole commercial team.
• Ensuring all Jumia websites always have for the customer, the right products at the best price, at the right position.
• Being within Jumia leadership, an early adopter, a leading ambassador and a relentless missionary of Jumia’s strategic commercial orientation.
• Understanding all your market segments, vendors and customers, bringing valuable insights and convictions to support your data driven commercial recommendations.
• Building analysis, flying high and diving deep, to ensure smart reporting on the performance of the categories, leading to action-oriented recommendations.
• Owning the merchandising of our websites, optimizing the placement of our products to deliver on every level of Jumia’s strategy.
• Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Onsite, Operations and other stakeholders), enabling decision making, problem solving and ensuring laser focus execution.
• Leading massive and complex commercial operations and project management initiatives, coordinating effectively cross functions initiatives.
• Constantly working toward improving and simplifying our tools.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from any accredited university
• 7 years+ of experience in Retail / FMCG Industry
• 3 years plus experience in Consulting will be an added advantage.
• Experience in sales, negotiating and networking.

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.

Application Closing Date
31st September, 2020.