Jumia Ghana Recruitment for Commercial Events Manager

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Jumia Ghana Recruitment for Commercial Events Manager.

Jumia is Africa’s leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 14 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. It was 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 product categories including mobiles & tablets, computers, electronics, home & living, fashion, sports, health & beauty, grocery, and others.

Job Description:

• Company: Jumia
• Location: Ghana
• State: Accra

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Establishing a 12 months rolling commercial event planning for tier 2 events (one per month, built with commercial team)

• Proposing a couple of concepts for each event: value proposition, visual identity, claim, onsite user flow, deals logic, animations, levers to success. You are responsible for delivering a world-class customer experience.

• Working closely with local marketing, commercial & design stakeholders as well as the central commercial event management team to lock the concepts 4 months ahead

• Doing heavy international e-commerce event benchmarking and year-long competitor intelligence (offline and online) for upcoming and past commercial events

• Launch the PMO 3 months ahead. Proceed with early steps such a partnerships & T1 sellers’ negotiations

• Once campaign is over, you gather learnings & performance data from all stakeholders and enrich the 18 months T2 calendar accordingly. Aim is to improve our T2 events thanks to our learnings.

• Establish event’s milestones to ensure event is ready for go live date. Establish a contingency plan to prepare for the worst

• Push for deadlines’ respect – all tasks are interdependent: one deadline is missed, and several tasks are delayed.

• Gather & structure information to facilitate the work between all stakeholders. Raise a flag when you spot inconsistencies

• Make the necessary local adaptations so event resonates with customer
• Communicate, communicate, communicate! You are the event’s voice.

Requirements

• Merchandiser, curious for competition best practice (offline and online), savvy of branding/event novelties,

• Experience in project management ideally

• Organized: timely, extremely rigorous, detail-oriented

• Good communicator, emotional intelligence

• Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines, being agile

• Data-oriented, analytical

• Ability to work autonomously as well as in teams

• Creativity is a plus.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should CLICK HERE to apply.