NI- Pricing and Automation Analyst 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 recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: NI- Pricing and Automation Analyst

Location: Yaba, Lagos

Description 

• You'll be joining the commercial operations team. The Pricing team defines the commercial strategy of Jumia to drive the growth of the sales volume, margin, and conversion rate across the different categories.
• We leverage data analysis to decide on the commercial targets, the right assortment and pricing, marketing efforts, and sales campaigns.
• We boost commercial team members' work by providing them with effective tools and planning to achieve results.

Responsibilities 

• As a pricing and automation analyst, you will:
• Be responsible for the pricing leadership of Jumia Nigeria
• Select and scan the relevant products vs. the competition
• Share updated price data with the commercial team
• Lead the execution of daily and mid-term actions to maintain price leadership
• Identify issues and improvement areas that you will structure, analyze, and report to management while proposing plans for solving them
• Challenge the existing status quo and push continuously for higher results (by improving processes and executing seamlessly).
• Lead the development of key commercial automation projects in close relation with HCO
• Leverage your detailed knowledge of local commercial operations and your technical skills to develop scalable automated solutions, to be tested and launched locally and scaled to other countries. Those solutions aim at:
• 1/ Fueling our growth through price competitiveness and stock availability
• 2/ Improving our unit economics
• 3/Saving time for commercial team members to focus on higher value-added tasks

To conduct these missions, we expect you to:

• Focus on impact and results
• Be analytical and structured in your approach, while showing a strong bias for action
• Be proactive, challenge the existing, make propositions
• Embrace the complexity of our business and organization and translate it into actionable insights and plans
• Give visibility to the team on your actions, blockers, and results to mobilize our support when needed

Expected Technical and Personal Skills:

• Top Business and Engineering Schools and Universities
• Proficiency in Google Sheets (advanced functions, queries, scripts), PowerBI, SQL, and Python
• Ability to analyze large data sets to make strategic decisions
• Experience in e-commerce or retail

KPIs to evaluate the FTE:

• Pricing leadership %
• PSA pricing completion %
• Automation project assessment

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields with 6 - 9 years work experience.

Application Closing Date
11th October, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online