Advertising Manager - Jumia - Full Time

About Jumia:

Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.

About Jumia:
Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.

 

What you will be doing

• Understand the local media landscape and look for opportunities to impact media plans with new partners and formats
• Actively leverage your network of agencies, brands & partners in promoting usage of Jumia Advertising 
• Proactively lead client relationships by leveraging traffic and platform capabilities to drive the client’s business and marketing objectives.
• Collaborate with our Commercial Team and Key Accounts to develop clear business objectives, high impact digital advertising & marketing programs and measurement of those programs.
• Manage projects across cross-functional teams and with the client to ensure successful delivery of those programs.
• Present findings and results to Key Accounts Client Executives.
• Act as a knowledgeable industry leader in online marketing, analytics, and targeting.
• Improve and share project management processes, standards, templates and best practices both internally and with client teams.
• Maximize revenue inflow from these client accounts.
• Attain monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets related to your client account portfolio.
• Actively identify and pursue new advertising client accounts.
• Conceptualize, verbalize, document, test, propose and present new online revenue generating opportunities
• Use web analytics tools to analyze site traffic and user demographics in support of online campaign proposals and client presentations.
• Source, execute, optimize and evaluate all elements of each media campaign. Be the bridge from strategy to execution.
• Set up all measurement metrics and KPIs for each campaign.
• Provide key learnings reports quarterly with recommendations for future plans.

What we are looking for

• An advertising / marketing or related qualification will be advantageous.
• Interest in delivering and supporting Jumia in a client-facing role.
• Ability to excel in team environments.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Passionate about advertising, marketing, data, analytics and technology.
• Minimum of 2+ years with agency experience.
• Minimum of 4+ years digital advertising sales.
• Interest in client-facing positions and digital marketing initiatives.
• Must be able to balance a creative and business approach.
• Must be passionate about online advertising and marketing.
• The ability to create and maintain good relationships with client accounts.
• Able to identify and realize revenue opportunities related to online advertising.
• Ability to live the Jumia values:
  • Delivers customer satisfaction;
  • Leads completely;
  • Embraces and drives change;
  • Goes the extra mile;
  • Is adventurous, open-minded and creative;
  • Creates fun and a positive team spirit.

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