Jumia is the leading pan-Africa e-commerce platform. Founded in 2012, Jumia’s mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to consumers, while helping businesses grow as they use our platform to reach and serve consumers.

Our platforms consist of our marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, our logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and our payment service, which facilitates transactions among participants active on our platform in selected markets. Through our online platforms, consumers can access a wide range of physical and digital goods and services, fashion, electronics, beauty products and also hotel and flight bookings or restaurant delivery.

With over 3,000 employees in 14 countries spanning across 6 African regions, 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 for 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 talented people with a passion for Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey!

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.

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 accredited 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.

Interested and qualified candidates should [b]click here[/b]https://www.myjobarena.com/jobs/junior-commercial-analyst/ to proceed with application