Jumia is a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions for Jumia’s ecosystem.

With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, Jumia believes that e-commerce is making people’s lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live. E-commerce is also creating new opportunities for SMEs to grow, and job opportunities for a new generation to thrive.

With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating sustainable impact in Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs, new skills, and empowering a new generation.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing assortment, inventory and monthly campaigns for multiple dark stores
• Collaborates across teams (buying, brand managers) and departments (Commercial, Marketing, logistics) to actively manage the assortment of our Dark Stores to cover 2K+ products
• Manage commercial operations for dark stores (cat tree, backend systems, etc)
• Monitor and analyze current inventory for each dark store based on key inventory management KPIs
• Ensure buying team raises PO’s and sends to suppliers on time with right quantities
• Ensuring there is steady flow of stock between our main warehouse and each dark store
• Developing monthly campaigns with KAMs to drive engagement and orders at DKSs
• Anticipating the needed inventory based on sales history, seasons and upcoming campaigns

 

Competencies Required

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Familiarity with working in a culturally diverse environment
• Excellent People, Problem-solving, Negotiation, Time management and Coordination skills.
• Self-Driven and great independent follow-through Ability
• Strong entrepreneurial skills, leadership, and drive
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Accounting)
• Advanced Excel to create macros, pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, analytical capabilities and work books.
• 3 – 5 years FMCG experience, ideally in grocery
• Demonstrated competency in data reporting and analysis
• Collaborating across many departments (logistics, procurement, finance, etc.) to rapidly grow a business
• Experience with commercial operations and ability to quickly navigate back-end systems

What We Offer

• A unique experience in an international, entrepreneurial yet structured environment
• An unparalleled personal and professional improvement as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders of our future internet service lines
• The opportunity to be part of the team of talented people with the best backgrounds