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Job Title:   Intern Project Management   

Organisation: Jumia

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Jumia is a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions for Jumia’s ecosystem.

Job Summary:  As Project Manager, you will lead numerous improvement projects aimed at streamlining activities while driving up performance and quality. Taking part in regional and global initiatives, you will tackle complex problems that affect customers and work to resolve them with innovative solutions.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of initiatives that eliminate waste, reduce lead time and improve business performance while establishing a sustainable model for continuous improvement
• Work with Country Manager to identify performance gaps, prioritize and manage improvement roadmap
• Through robust data analysis of key operational and cost metrics, identify opportunities for innovation and work with all Ops teams to quantify the value of the opportunity i.e. Optimizing warehouse and Jumia Express operations
• Improve main KPIs: Vendor Net Promoter Score, Vendor Satisfaction Score, Seller Ops Queue Management, SLA DS collection cost effective pricing efficiency, lost in seller ops
• Support delivery of operational consistency across the supply chain through both process and technology
• Participate in implementing lean management practice across Jumia Services globally
• Work with business and broader Ops team to ensure initiatives are appropriately prioritized and supported
• Participate in technology development by giving constant feedback on requirement for Warehouse & Logistics operations.
• Monitoring of 5S practices and Material handling

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline
• Five years of progressive related work with demonstrated experience in Continuous Improvement and/or Operational Excellence in a large fulfilment or distribution environment
• At least 3 years of experience using data visualization tools like Qlik, Tableau, or Microsoft Power BI
• At least 3 years of experience in Project management and time management skills – experience with end-to-end project management processes
• Excellent analytical capabilities, ability to produce, interpret and draw conclusions from data.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen methodologies would be highly advantageous or any Project Management certification
• Knowledge of distribution center / fulfilment operations and processes
• Demonstrated knowledge of key business financial metrics.
• Ability to lead large teams
• Experience with process design and improvement
• Experience with the full staffing lifecycle, including interviewing, hiring, performance management, promotions and terminations
• Strong analytical skills
• Pro-active attitude, entrepreneur, able to work both independently and within a team.
• Hardworking, result-oriented, methodical and very structured
• Emotional intelligence required to lead a fast-paced business and inspire a team of people.
• Innovation and creative thinking that’s required to develop outside the box solutions.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to effectively advise senior leadership
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to work to deadlines and targets, can prioritize tasks under pressure.

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How to Apply:

All applicants who wish to join Jumia should apply online at the link below.

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