Key Account Manager (Home / Appliances Category) Job at Jumia

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 Position: Key Account Manager - Home / Appliances Category
Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• As Key Account Manager, you will have the end-to-end responsibility of the customer experience and growth of the key vendors assigned to you.
• Your role is to bring in the relevant assortment, design targeted promotions, and manage key vendors in our marketplace.
• Constant interface with the Commercial operations, Vendor experience & Marketing team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuous growth of our existing business by owning pricing and promotions strategy, working with marketing teams to improve product content and visibility; and managing stock availability by coordinating teams across the business to bring the product to the customer.
• Complete Sales performance of the 3c’s Categories, vendors, merchant management and monitoring of sales strategies with a view to increasing the Business unit’s Net Margin Position (NMP) & Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV).
• Define and optimize curation/assortment selection strategy for your portfolio ensuring relevance of selection/styling to optimize revenues and sales velocity.
• Support product and content creation process to increase assortment live.
• Plan and maintain constant stock availability.
• Trend Spotting: Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps
• Customer acquisition through Value Offering, Sales Campaign Management, etc.
• Create and present strategic insights for the Business unit to gain alignment of major initiatives at multiple levels of the organization.
• Analyze & Present post – promotion analysis for retail and
• Marketplace, quantifying impact to brand and category.
• Build weekly marketing plan, and contribute determining which products/subcategories will be promoted on website and through all marketing channels (Newsletters, Facebook, etc).
• Develop strong analytics to evaluate daily/weekly/monthly performance and optimize further marketing, pricing, and product selection.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5- 10 years of experience.
• Have the ability to prioritize key accounts
• Process Improvement Management
• Good understanding of P&L, and Cash-Flow Management
• Skilled negotiation & Value-based selling
• Experience negotiating bulk discounts, MOQs & Credit Terms
• Experience building partnership with strategic OEMs.
• Owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power -point) tools.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and presentation

Skills:

• Good problem-solving skills required
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to work to deadlines and targets, can prioritize
• tasks under pressure.
• Tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-
• paced start-up environment is essential for success.
• Company and customer expertise.
• Strategic perspective.