Junior Commercial Analyst - Jumia 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 currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey in the position below:

Job Title: Junior Commercial Analyst - Jumia

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for taking the lead on the category strategic orientation and the full responsibility of the category’s P&L, the commercial analyst will support the team in bringing an exceptional growth for the sales volume, the margin and the conversion rate.
• She / He will be responsible for key routines and analysis to enable data driven decision making in everything we do.

In particular you will:

• Supporting the execution of the commercial plan, Ensuring Jumia always has for the customer, the right products at the best price, at the right place. Being within our teams, an early adopter, a leading ambassador and a relentless missionary of Jumia's strategic commercial orientation.
• Owning our inventory monitoring process to ensure best in class inventory management
• Understanding all your markets, 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 across all categories, Supporting Commercial planning team to deliver best in class performance steering
• Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Onsite, Operations...), enabling decision making, problem solving and ensuring laser focus execution.
• Support massive and complex commercial operations and project management initiatives, coordinating effectively cross functions initiatives.
• Constantly working toward improving and simplifying our tools and process.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from accrediated universities.
• 1- 3 years experience in analyzing large data sets to make strategic decisions.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Excel (VBA would be a plus)
• Proficiency in SQL and Google suite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills
• Excellent analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills required
• Ability to work to deadlines and targets, can prioritize tasks under pressure

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
30th June, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online