Jumia Nigeria Job vacancy for a Program Lead, Product Quality

Jumia is Africa's leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, 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. We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets in Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey in the position below:   Job Title: Program Lead, Product Quality Location: Lagos Job Type: Full-time Job Description:

• The Program Lead, Product Quality plays a pivotal role in the customer experience journey by ensuring our customers receive authentic and safe products that exceed their expectations.
• You’ll be accountable for all product quality assurance activities, working with key stakeholders and engaging them to ensure higher standards of quality, improved customer perception, and reduced merchandise return levels.

• Ensure QC agents are not passing packages that customers have returned or rejected.
• End to end quality leadership responsibility, provide and enhance quality control processes, both internally and externally, to ensure quality requirements are met
• Set direction for our support strategy through building cross functional relationships both internally and externally
• Leverage findings from targeted analysis to contribute to the Continuous Improvement process
• Act as the technical and functional product expert to assigned business categories
• Develop and implement programs to establish, maintain, and deliver high product quality to Vendors and Customers
• Analyse data insights across transactional customer satisfaction, QA performance, NPS detractors and support escalations
• Evaluate the acceptability of product quality testing and deciding next steps
• Manage the counterfeit battle (working with Production) and wrong item fulfillment (working with Vendor Support Centre)

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in quality inspections and quality management
• Experience in a customer facing quality role
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, low-structure, constantly changing atmosphere and prioritizing work appropriately
• Proficiency in data analysis tools
• Experience with cross geographical project coordination and management.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Experience in directly-related quality assurance/quality control functions, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven technical acumen demonstrated within a manufacturing, quality or consumer products environment

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures