What you will be doing:

Pricing Manager:

Owning pricing analytics, at a category-level, to drive insights and actions for the Commercial Team

Reviewing price trends over time across Jumia / Online Competition / Offline Competition, to identify and flag actions to commercial team

Developing Jumia KE pricing strategy by category / event type, to serve as clear guidance for commercial team and support negotiations

Incorporating insights from findings of pricing associates to drive pricing recommendations for Sales Teams on prices

Developing price elasticity data and toolkit at a category-, sub-category and SKU-level to determine highest ROI for internal investments on price

Performance Management:

Delivering on the business plan by leveraging on the power of the marketplace, bringing orientations, feedback, and support to the commercial team.

Leading the commercial plan, taking an active role in the definition and execution of Jumia’s commercial strategy.

Understanding the market, vendors, and customers to bring valuable insights and convictions to support your data driven commercial recommendations.

Monitoring daily performance to achieve present targets and objectives and sitting with account managers to drive performance on a day to day basis.

Building analysis, flying high and diving deep, to ensure smart reporting on the performance across all categories leading to action-oriented recommendations including:

Building forecasts for large commercial events

Building detailed monthly projections and allocations at category level.

Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Onsite, Operations...), enabling decision making, problem solving and ensuring laser focus execution.

Leading massive and complex commercial operations and project management initiatives, coordinating effectively cross-functional initiatives.

Constantly working toward improving and simplifying our tools and processes

What we are looking for:

An ideal candidate would possess significant (2-4 years) experience in category management (retail) with strong analytical skills and a proven track record of impact

Top Business Schools and Universities

Proficiency in MS Office and Excel

Able to analyse large data sets to make strategic decisions