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 Market, 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.
Founded in 2012, Jumia’s mission is to revolutionize the concept of shopping by providing customers with the best online shopping experience through a wide range of products categories including mobiles & tablets, computers, electronics, home & living, fashion, sports, health & beauty, grocery and others
Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, offering excellent opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment. Its economic growth has enabled innovative businesses to flourish and this is where Jumia steps in.
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.
Central Marketing Project Manager – Jumia Africa
As a project management lead, your job will be to drive impactful commercial events for Jumia. Your scope will be africa-wide. You will be heading a team of 5 people across Africa. Your job will be to make 5 commercial events happen every month, by overviewing their creation 4 months ahead, and following up on their execution.
Main responsibilities:
Your job will be to coordinate impactful events for Jumia Mall, and help in their creation.
Coordinating events (80% of time) You are the event’s Sherpa, your aim is to consolidate all teams to become one united front heading towards a successful & timely event. For that, you will:
- Challenge your team’s concepts every month to ensure you are driving an impactful event: marketing concept, value proposition, partnerships, quality of products etc.
- Validate milestones to ensure event is ready for go live date. Establish a contingency plan to prepare for the worst, push for deadlines’ respect, raise a flag when you spot inconsistencies
- Build in-company event intelligence. At the end of each event, you gather and structure the learnings to leverage them for upcoming events. You benchmark best practices from international players
- Along the events, you build methodology support that will enable you to standardize & automate the tasks in order to spend less time on execution, more time on strategy & tools improvement.
Creating events (20% of time)
You will help your co-workers create/recreate from scratch impactful and relevant event concepts.
Required Skills:
Desired Background and experience:
- Bachelor or Master’s degree from top business schools and universities,
- 1-2 years of professional experience in project management, ideally marketing and product management related.
Expected personal skills:
- Organized and detail oriented
- Good communicator and high emotional intelligence
- Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines, being agile
- Ability to work autonomously as well as in teams
- Data oriented, analytical
- English and French speaking.
What we offer:
- A unique experience in an international, entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- An unparalleled personal and professional improvement as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures
- The opportunity to be part of a team full of talented people with the best backgrounds.
