Category Analyst – Consumer Electronics – Jumia at Jumia Nigeria

Jumia is a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions for Jumia’s ecosystem. With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, Jumia believes that e-commerce is making people’s lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live. E-commerce is also creating new opportunities for SMEs to grow, and job opportunities for a new generation to thrive.

With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, 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 in Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs, new skills, and empowering a new generation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Category Analyst – Consumer Electronics – Jumia

Employment type: Full Time
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Department: Commercial – Commercial Planning

Job Objective

• The Commercial Analyst – Consumer Electronics will be responsible for providing proactive and actionable insights through persistent forward-looking analysis and financial performance evaluation across the assigned categories.
• You will play a key role in supporting the Commercial Planning Manager in reviewing Commercial performance for the optimization of revenue and gross profit.
• In addition, a pivotal responsibility will be to drive proactive and actionable commercial insights, standardization of analytics, customer engagement routines and performance reviews.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for production and communication on key insights on your category (best selling products, price points, brands, product specs, etc.) to be used in making high impact decisions
• 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 specific 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.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited universities.
• 2-4 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.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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