BUSINESS DEVELOPER AND OPERATION MANAGER 03/02/2016

Rocket Internet
Business Developer & Operations Manager (m/f) - Africa Internet Group
Venture Development | Asia, Africa, Latin America 


About Us

Africa internet group (AIG) is Africa’s leading internet platform. We operate online and mobile e-commerce retail, marketplaces, classified and services companies. By providing technology to connect customers to businesses, we simplify life with easy-to-use applications and smart solutions across the continent’s internet sector. Founded in 2012, the group is currently operating 11 companies in more than 30 African countries. At AIG, you have the opportunity to extend your entrepreneurial knowledge while working in a fast-changing
environment. We constantly strive to keep up with the pace of the economic growth of the continent, respectively shaping and improving our processes as well as operations.

Moreover, we are dedicated to contribute to the building of sustainable and inclusive growth. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) like our companies are increasingly being recognized and shape new business models every day.

Business Developer & Operations Manager – (Internship)

As a Business Developer Intern, your main responsibilities will be to develop the ventures in your market through operational and strategic actions. You will directly manage your operational and commercial team.

Key responsibilities include:

 Defining and implementing commercial strategy

 Identifying and targeting revenue potential by focusing on securing sustainable repeat business

 Negotiating best conditions with partners while still building long lasting relationship

 Creating trust with all partners

 Monitoring and analyzing sales and external market trends

 Building strong customer relationships by leveraging information and defining opportunities

 Building and leading cross-functional teams that are able to anticipate and deliver solutions to client issues

As an Operations Intern, your main responsibilities will be to design operational processes for logistics and warehousing services, as well as implementing.

Key responsibilities include:

 Deliver measurable results linked to your business

 Producing regular reporting on the Operations performance

o Ensuring the smooth fulfilment of the items sold and Implementing best

practice fulfilment processes in the country

o Reducing overall lead time between inbound and outbound

o Monitoring consistency and quality of the inventory

o Constantly improving and developing new internal processes

o Making fast decisions in order to solve daily emergencies

o Ensure regular reporting of your actions and results

o Ensuring the quality of the measurement of selected KPIs hourly, daily, weekly and monthly

 Scaling the team and the processes to support the growth of the company

Requirements

 A degree from Top European Business / Engineering Schools and Universities

 Proficiency in MS Office and Excel (VBA would be plus)

 Strong analytical and problem solving skills

 Smart, energetic, goal driven and result oriented

 You feel confident when communicating in English

 Well organized and able to work well under stress and tight deadlines

 Very independent with a strong ability to go further than the expectations

We Offer

 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

Package

 Contract: Internship

 Duration: 6 months

 Start date: ASAP

 Location: Business Development & Operations Excellence Analyst (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kenya, Slovenia, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan)



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