Business, strategic management Jobs in Uganda

Location: Kigali or Kampala

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Start Date: ASAP

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

The Product Manager will be employed as part of Jibu’s Global Team and work closely with the Operating Companies and ultimately accountable for the roll out of LPG products in the markets scaling of revenue and sales of LPG.

The purpose of this position is to take strategic ownership for all product developments in the LPG line and oversee the execution to operationalise the strategy in collaboration with dynamic and diverse teams.

Location: Kigali or Kampala

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Start Date: ASAP

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

The Product Manager will be employed as part of Jibu’s Global Team and work closely with the Operating Companies and ultimately accountable for the roll out of LPG products in the markets scaling of revenue and sales of LPG.

The purpose of this position is to take strategic ownership for all product developments in the LPG line and oversee the execution to operationalise the strategy in collaboration with dynamic and diverse teams.

1. Product Strategy

- Own, develop and refine the product strategy and vision.

- Develop a growth roadmap within existing LPG markets

- Assess viability and own execution for international expansion of the product into other Jibu Markets

- Survey, assess and oversee the LPG market and it’s trends to stay ahead of competition

- Lead pricing analysis, calculations and discussions and present price revision proposals to the executive team

2. Product Operations

- Take full ownership of the project management for the roll out of developments in Jibu’s LPG offer that include:

• technical innovations
  

• service innovations
  

- Lead the LPG Task Forces on global and Operating Company level

- Work closely with the Global Supply Chain Team to build a reliable and competitive supplier network

- Work closely with the Global Engineer and Quality Teams achieve highest product quality at all layers of the distribution chain

- Use a 360 approach to fully include the LPG product into the company operations and DNA, just like Water

-Lead the co-development of necessary trainings, SOPs, manuals and all other documentation and standards required to build sustainable operations

3. Product Administration

• Regular reporting of performance metrics
  

• Project administration
  

• Be the meeting lead for all relevant meetings
  

Minimum Experience Requirements:

• Excellent LPG product knowledge
  

• Strong project management and operations skills
  

• Must be proven as reliable, consistent, performance driven
  

• Accustomed to working against and achieving targets
  

• Analytical skills to process a huge amount of data and present in a concise and logic way
  

Preferred Experience Requirements:

• Previous leadership experience in LPG Distribution to households, GT and MT
  

• Experience working in a social enterprise or a startup is a plus
  

• Experience in LPG plant engineering
  

Qualifications:

At Jibu, we do not recruit based CVs only, we look for a candidate with the right attitude, hunger for success and talent.

• A self-starter and initiator with an intrinsic motivation to perform
  

• Highly motivated to Get Things Done in an autonomous an independent matter
  

• Strong entrepreneurial and business instincts
  

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
  

• Perfect written and spoken English and knowledge
  

• Motivated to leverage intelligent design for scalable impact
  

• People and social skills to maneuver difficult conversations, negotiate with business partners
  

• Able to represent the Jibu Brand and comfortably communicate decisions from managements to the franchise network.