Category Analyst – OnDemand Services at Jumia Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: Category Analyst – OnDemand Services

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Department: Commercial – Commercial Planning

Job Objective

• The Commercial Analyst – OnDemand Services will be responsible for providing proactive and actionable insights through persistent forward-looking analysis and financial performance evaluation across the OnDemand Services.
• 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 On-Demand Services (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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.