Strategic Account Manager - Jumia (Full Time)

About Jumia:

Jumia is a leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Its mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to customers, while helping businesses grow as they use Jumia's platform to better reach and serve customers.

Jumia is built around a marketplace and supported by a proprietary logistics business [Jumia Logistics] and a digital payment and fintech platform [Jumia Pay]. With over 3,000 employees, 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 a sustainable impact in Africa.

In April 2019, Jumia was the first Tech company in Africa to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Strategic Account Manager for Jumia Advertising

As a Strategic Account Manager, you will be responsible for managing the media activities of Jumia’s Strategic brand partners: the Joint Business Plan (JBP) Partners. You will have a dozen JBP brands in your portfolio to animate monthly with an expectation of high-achieving campaigns. Should bandwidth allow,  you will also be able to support some of our key strategic sellers that are not part of regional JBPs but covered in local ones. You will be reporting to the local Head of Advertising as well as functionally to the person overseeing all regional Joint Business Plans. You will be working closely with the Strategic Vendor Service (SVS), each leading one brand regionally from the commercial, logistics, and advertising budget aspect.

What you will be doing

As the end to end owner of the execution of all media activities of the regional JBP partners in your country, your responsibilities include:

•  defining a monthly media plan for your brands
•  executing the media plan once aligned with the brand
•  analyzing the media plan performance at channel level & optimizing it intra-month
• reporting on the results and building recommendations brand by brand to improve the coming months plans
•  building relationships with local JBP brand teams as well as the Adops & marketing teams

What we are looking for 

• Growth hacker mindset
• Brand DNA sensitivity is a plus
• 6-8  years experience managing online marketing campaigns: multi-channel management, at ease with marketing KPIs and campaign budget management 
• Enjoying data crunching and at ease with large data sets and multiple sources of info
• Enjoying working with multi-stakeholders
• Good English level

We Offer:

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders