Head of Commercial Operations Job Jumia

What you will be doing:

• Managing a team of Commercial Planners and Merchandizers 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 levels of Jumia’s strategy.
• Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain etc.), 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.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years experience in Retail / FMCG, 3+ years experience in e-commerce
• Graduate of accredited Top Universities, Engineering and Business Schools
• Proficiency in MS Office and Google tools
• Action oriented and performance driven
• Strong inter-personal skills: Convince the people and your team that you are making the right decisions
• Great ability to work in a fast paced and competitive environment
• Strong analytical and data management skills
• Ability to anticipate, structure and organize
• Well organized and very detail oriented
• Resistant to stress
• Ability to find simple solutions to complex problems

How to Apply

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