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30 Sep 2020

Head of Advertising at Jumia

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Job Description


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.

We are
looking for an individual with strong advertising sales experience within a
digital environment to lead this exciting new venture within our business!
Aside from the opportunity to work in e-commerce with a diverse, innovative and
dynamic team, we can offer you flexible working hours and a fun and fast pace
work environment!

Key
Performance Areas:

  • Proactively
    lead client relationships by leveraging traffic and platform capabilities
    to drive the client’s business and marketing objectives.
  • Collaborate
    with Key Accounts brands and their partners to develop clear business
    objectives, high impact digital marketing programs and measurement of
    those programs.
  • Manage
    projects across cross-functional teams and with the client to ensure
    successful delivery of those programs.
  • Present
    findings and results to Key Accounts Client Executives.
  • Act
    as a knowledgeable industry leader in online marketing, analytics, and
    targeting.
  • Improve
    and share project management processes, standards, templates and best
    practices both internally and with client teams.
  • Maximize
    revenue inflow from these client accounts.
  • Attain
    monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets related to your client account
    portfolio.
  • Actively
    identify and pursue new advertising client accounts.
  • Conceptualize,
    verbalize, document, test, propose and present new online revenue
    generating opportunities in consultation with CMO.
  • Use
    web analytics tools to analyse site traffic and user demographics in
    support of online campaign proposals and client presentations.
  • Source,
    execute, optimise and evaluate all elements of each media campaign. Be the
    bridge from strategy to execution.
  • Set
    up all measurement metrics and KPIs for each campaign.
  • Provide
    key learnings reports quarterly with recommendations for future plans.
  • Collaborate
    with brand teams to develop required content plans for digital media
    plans.
  • Understand
    the media landscape and look for opportunities to impact media plans with
    new partners and formats that could improve media performance.

Education,
skills, behaviour and knowledge required:

  • An
    advertising / marketing or related qualification will be advantageous.
  • Interest
    in delivering and supporting Jumia in a client-facing role.
  • Ability
    to excel in team environments.
  • Strong
    interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Passionate
    about advertising, marketing, data, analytics and technology.
  • Minimum
    of 2+ years with agency experience.
  • Minimum
    of 4+ years digital advertising sales.
  • Interest
    in client-side positions and digital marketing initiatives.
  • Must
    be able to balance a creative and business approach.
  • Must
    be passionate about online advertising and marketing.
  • The
    ability to create and maintain good relationships with client accounts.
  • Able
    to identify and realize revenue opportunities related to online
    advertising.
  • Ability
    to live the Jumia values:
  • Delivers
    customer satisfaction;
  • Leads
    completely;
  • Embraces
    and drives change;
  • Goes
    the extra mile;
  • Is
    adventurous, open-minded and creative;
  • Creates
    fun and a positive team spirit.
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Closing Date : 29 Oct, 2020




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