Strategic Account Manager

Job Description

Company Overview:

Jumia is Africa’s leading internet group with 3,000+ employees across 20+ African countries, operating brands such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs, and Jumia Services. Backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs, and CdC, Jumia blends local and international talent. This Strategic Account Manager job in Lagos supports growth-focused media activities for key partners.

Job Title

Strategic Account Manager Job in Lagos (Jumia)

Location

Lagos, Nigeria

Employment Type

Full-time

About the Role

As a Strategic Account Manager, you will manage media activities for Jumia’s Strategic brand partners—its Joint Business Plan (JBP) partners. You will handle a portfolio of about a dozen JBP brands with monthly animation and high-performance campaign expectations. Where bandwidth allows, you will also support key strategic sellers covered by local JBPs. You will report to the local Head of Advertising and functionally to the regional JBP lead, collaborating closely with Strategic Vendor Service (SVS) teams overseeing each brand’s commercial, logistics, and advertising budget aspects.

Responsibilities

• Define a monthly media plan for assigned brands.
• Execute the approved media plan in alignment with each brand.
• Analyze channel-level performance and optimize intra-month.
• Report results and build brand-by-brand recommendations for upcoming months.
• Build relationships with local JBP brand teams, AdOps, and marketing teams.
• Support key strategic sellers under local JBPs when bandwidth permits.

Requirements

• 6–8 years’ experience managing online marketing campaigns (multi-channel), comfortable with marketing KPIs and campaign budgets.
• Growth-hacker mindset.
• Enjoy working with large datasets from multiple sources; strong data-crunching ability.
• Comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
• Good level of English.
• Sensitivity to brand DNA is a plus.

We Offer

• An entrepreneurial yet structured work environment.
• A chance to make a strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector.
• The opportunity to work within a professional, dynamic team.
• Significant personal and professional growth, with a long-term goal to train the next generation of leaders.