About Jumia:

Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.

What you will be doing:

• Handle relationships with new and current suppliers (including talking to them everyday and developing a rapport).
• Getting the weekly promotion items from the suppliers.
• Organizing key commercial events such as Black Friday, Jumia Anniversary, and Mobile Week. 
• Negotiating costs and payment terms with the suppliers.
• Achieving the targets of revenue, items sold, gross margin, assortment, vendor base 
• Getting new releases as soon as the suppliers have them.
• Shortlisting and prioritizing key suppliers.
• Handling pricing and assortment strategy​
• Finding new suppliers, try to source and sell every product within your category.
• Monitor stock levels and plan the purchasing policy well in advance.
• Having an accurate knowledge of competition: who they are, what prices they have and their products.
• Analyze consumer buying behaviour and predict future trends.
• Producing Monthly sales reports.
• Building an amicable user interface for our vendors and our customers

What we are looking for:

• 4 years experience at least in the sales field
• Excellent command of Excel, results-oriented
• Excellent interpersonal skills, knowledge of the market 
• Initiative, dynamism, rigour and tenacity
• Fluency in French and English

 

We Offer:

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders