Job Description: Vendor Manager - Home and Living

Jumia is the #1 leader of E-commerce in Africa. Our company is part of Rocket Internet, a global and leading incubator of start ups specialized in e-commerce. We have already built in France successful companies like Groupon, Zalando, Wimdu, EDarling, Glossybox… 

We are present in more than 20 countries in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Latin America and this accumulated experience has allowed us to develop a strong platform, which can support new ventures with both advice and capital on a truly global basis.
Jumia has expanded its activities in Kenya. To support our development we are currently looking for outstanding candidates interested in entrepreneurship and e-commerce to join us. This is a perfect opportunity to participate in an entrepreneurial adventure that will lead to the future stars of the web universe.

The role of the Vendor Manager includes but is not limited to:

Handling relationships with new and current suppliers (includes talking to them every day and developing a rapport).Getting the weekly promotion items from the suppliers.Negotiating costs and payment terms with the suppliers.Getting new releases as soon as the suppliers have them.Shortlisting and prioritizing key suppliers.Finding new suppliers with no limits, try to source and sell every product within your category.Monitoring stock levels and planning the purchasing policy well in advance.Having an accurate knowledge of competition: who they are, what prices they have and their products.Analyzing consumer buying behavior and predicting future trends.Attending trade fairs / events and sourcing for new products.Producing Monthly sales reports.Liaising with various teams within the organization to ensure a smooth flow of operations.Purchasing and supplies qualifications.2 years and above work experience Prior experience with household electronics/ furniture suppliers Excellent computer skills.Knowledge of Home and Living products will be an added advantage.Exceptional analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills.Proactive, Entrepreneurial and proven ability to deliver exceptional results.Please send your resume to: joinus-kenya@jumia.com

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Min. Experience: Manager / Supervisor
Living Goods is seeking a dynamic and driven Product Manager to join our Product team in Kenya. The Product Manager will be tasked to ensure Living Goods' product range achieves maximum impact through securing products on exceptional terms that driving maximum profits to are agents and products to our customers.

Reporting to the Director of Product, the Kenya Product Manager will support the selection of products, negotiate the terms and have a product range that offers real impact to our customers and great value to our agents.

Leveraging your exceptional communication and influence skills combined with attention to detail you will manage the supplier base driving suppliers for promotional marketing support to increase sales and ensure that product is continuously available You'll ensure that the total product offer, availability and efficient selling are fully considered and that maximum profit is generated while maintaining a great product range that delivers impact and sells. 
The right candidate will have a proven ability to work under pressure in a fast moving dynamic environment while delivering results at an individual and team level.

You are great for this position if you are a driven, smart and pragmatic entrepreneurial leader with an exceptional track record of sourcing, negotiating, supplier management and product & stock management. 

This position is based in Nairobi Kenya with possible travel to Kampala Uganda.To execute the sourcing and selection strategy for all Living Goods products in KenyaTo achieve optimum product cost through excellent supplier selection and effective negotiation with suppliers.To analyze the product range reviewing all round performance on a continuous basis to build recommendations for improvements to the product offer.To relentlessly look at different ways of sourcing product to achieve the best cost price and product offer.Manage the supply base through the development of contracts, setting and monitoring KPIs, and holding regular reviews.To undertake market assessments and competitor benchmarking and regularly assess pricing to determine the optimum pricing position of Living Goods products.Working with suppliers, negotiate support and develop marketing tactics for Living Goods products and co-ordinate the development of marketing materials.To support product development by ensuring key milestones in the critical path are met in order that new products are launched on time and with the right quality and price.Develop a procurement plan by understanding demand trends by completing a needs estimation, calculating the coverage needs, using stock on hand reports and therefore determining re-order quantities.Manage all information related to product.Regularly visit branches and agents to continuously look at ways to improve the product offer for our agents and end customers.Collaborate closely with the Living Goods Branch sales teams to ensure the product range sells like madShare expertise and experience with Living Goods’ Uganda product team.Minimum of 5 years’ experience in buying multiple products.Strong commercial awareness and previous Buying experience required preferably within East African markets.Excellent supplier management, negotiation and influencing skills will be essentialProven track record of delivering a profitable product rangeExperience of working with suppliers on a FOB & domestic basisProduct, market and consumer knowledgeProven success in developing product marketing strategies to increase sales volumes.Excellent computer literacy especially with excel skills and data analysis.Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.Kenyan National or experience working in Kenya for 6+ years. Compensation: A highly competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.  The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

Living Goods Training and Monitoring Manager - Kenya

A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours

What is Living Goods?

Do you want your work to matter? Are you just looking for a change, or are you looking for the chance to changes millions of lives for the better, including yours? If your answer is ‘yes’, read on.
At Living Goods we believe the poor deserve better health, a better deal, and a chance at a better life. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth, and selling low-cost, life-changing products like essential medicines, fortified foods, money-saving cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro entrepreneurs who leverage LG’s brand, buying power and powerful mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products, at accessible prices, to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health and wealth of the world’s poor.
Living Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of building a national network of high-impact entrepreneurs. We are recruiting a full new team to lead this effort and one of the key positions is Training and Monitoring Manager. The Training and Monitoring Manager will oversee innovation, planning and measurement of Living Goods Training and Monitoring objectives around improving health and economic outcomes for our customers and agents. Success in the this role means innovating new tools and strategies for improving social outcomes, effectively training field staff and agents in simple but powerful ways to improve family health and livelihoods, and accurately measuring, monitoring and analyzing results to drive improvements in the Living Goods model. LG believes strongly, and invests heavily, in using the smartest mobile technology for both driving and measuring impact. Living Goods is a fast-paced, mission-driven and business-minded organization. This is your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing, multi-national organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for professional growth.
Training and Monitoring Manager ResponsibilitiesInnovate in Social Impact Delivery: Create and test innovative approaches for helping LG sales agents to improve health and economic impacts for struggling families. Oversee Training: Oversee training of branch staff and Living Goods agents in community health, basic entrepreneurship, door to door sales and use of innovative mobile tools. Manage Monitoring and Quality Control: Employ a range of effective tools, including mobile, for measuring social impacts, and ensuring program quality. Assist in the implementation of best practice external evaluations. Analyze monitoring and evaluation data to deliver insights for improving impact.Minimum of 7 years of experience in one or more of the following: monitoring and evaluation of social programs - experience with mobile data collection a plus; community health training; consumer research; micro enterprise program delivery.Strong math and analytical skills. Well versed in MS Excel.Superior oral and written communication skills.College degree preferred. The position is based in Nairobi, Kenya and requires in country travel 20-50% of most months.A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health, vacation, and bonus opportunity.  The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.Living Goods is aiming to make game-changing, landscape-shifting changes that dramatically improve the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At LG, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will be happy at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.

Living Goods head office sits in California, USA where some of the most successful companies in the world were born – including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. 

Living Goods is financed by some of the most successful business people and investors in world including the founder of eBay – an $11 billion global platform that empowers millions of small businesses around the world.

How to Apply

Please submit a single file with resume/CV and cover letter describing your interest, qualifications, and how you learned of the position to jobs@livinggoods.org. Please type “Kenya Training and Monitoring Manager – [Last Name]” in the subject line.

New opportunities at Living Goods get filled quickly.

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Living Goods Kenya Business Manager
A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours

Summary

Do you have serious business skills and want to use them to make a difference not just make a living?  Are you just looking for a change, or are you looking for the chance to changes millions of lives for the better, including yours? If your answer is ‘yes’, read on.
At Living Goods we believe the poor deserve better health, a better deal, and a chance at a better life. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth, and selling low-cost, life-changing products like essential medicines, fortified foods, money-saving cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro entrepreneurs who leverage LG’s brand, buying power and powerful mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products, at accessible prices, to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health and wealth of the world’s poor.
Living Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of building a national network of high-impact entrepreneurs. We are recruiting a full new team to lead this effort and one of the most important positions is Country Business Manager. The Business Manager will lead the effort to recruit and support a network of thousands of independent agents supported through a backbone of regional distribution hubs.  Living Goods is a fast-paced, mission-driven and business-minded organization.  We are particularly looking for candidates with strong experience managing sales teams in consumer goods. This is your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing, multi-national organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for professional growth.
Kenya Business Manager ResponsibilitiesBuild National Sales Force:  Oversee recruitment of agents and all field activities including sales and marketing, distribution, and finance.Build and Support Field Team: Recruit, train, motivate and mentor all Branch Managers and ensure they are supported to achieve success. Innovation: Generate and deploy innovative tests and promotions that have the opportunity to significantly improve profitability and human impacts.Master Mobile Tools: Optimize the use of the mobile communications platform to drive sales, deepen impacts, reduce costs, and increase profitability.This position is based in Nairobi with up to 40% travel time within Kenya. 

Qualifications

Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in sales and sales force management, preferably in consumer packaged goods. Proven track record of driving sales success.Experience recruiting, managing and motivating large teams.Strong math and financial skills. Well versed in MS Excel.Able to travel in country 30-50% of the month.College degree preferred. A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health, vacation, and bonus opportunity.  The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.Living Goods is aiming to make game-changing, landscape-shifting changes that dramatically improve the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At LG, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will be happy at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.

Living Goods head office sits in California, USA where some of the most successful companies in the world were born – including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. 

Living Goods is financed by some of the most successful business people and investors in world including the founder of eBay – an $11 billion global platform that empowers millions of small businesses around the world.

How to Apply

Please submit a single file with resume/CV and cover letter describing your interest, qualifications, and how you learned of the position to jobs@livinggoods.org. Please type “Kenya Business Manager – [Last Name]” in the subject line.

New opportunities at Living Goods fill quickly.