Marketing and Branding Manager

Job Title: Marketing and Branding Manager
 

Department: Marketing
 

Reports To: Regional C.E.O
 

Available Posts: 1

Job Objective: To manage the company’s brand image and responsible leading the strategic development and execution of the brand and identify opportunities for growth

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Media and public relations, promote the company’s image, branding,
• Market activity planning, develop and execute creative strategies and consumer communication and promotion programs.
• Media placement planning, implementation, and monitoring
• Event manager, organizations for launch and other events
• Planning and sales activities (performed by the sales force)
• Minimize costs for advertising and promotional campaigns, marketing surveys including pricing, satisfaction, and etc.
• Analyze business results and trends and communicate recommendations.
• All other miscellaneous responsibility as required by your direct manager and the marketing and sales department.

Skills and Competencies:

• Experience in high-tech or telecommunications products
• Proficient in Excel, and Microsoft Word
• Excellent communication skills: oral, written, interpersonal, analytical, organization detailed oriented and high prioritization skills are required
• Proactive and able to work with minimal supervision.
• A leader with extreme professionalism and strong development of partnership with an art of negotiating
• Highly motivated and disciplined, with an ability to manage several open projects at a time and met deadlines.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in marketing or related major from accredited university
• Graduate degree in marketing preferred
• 3+ years of similar experience with well-known brand in Kenya

Qualified candidates should send their application letters and CV’s quoting relevant skills and experience to sylvanus.asanga@startimes.co.ke. 

Kindly include names of three referees and a daytime telephone contact. 

Interviews will be done on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Assistant Sales Manager

Job Title: Assistant Sales Manager
 

Department: Marketing and Sales
 

Reports To: CEO of Western Region
 

Location: Western Region: Eldoret
 

Available Posts: 1

Job Objective: To assist to manage the sales department and staff members of sales team to make sure targets are met and company policy followed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the sales department personnel, mobilize the enthusiasm of staff and organize the internal and client meetings
• Report the market/dealer information to direct manager weekly and participate in the sales policy-making
• Lead sales team to achieve the sales target and work under pressure
• Enlarge channel sales market and achieve sales targets; Keep good relationship with dealers and resolve the problems that customers faced; Deal with customers' complaints promptly, and collect market information
• Unswervingly implement the company policy
• Check the sales record and payment on time, and report to the manager if find any lost

Skills and Competencies:

• Be familiar with Kenya market and capable of organizing channel sales, corporation sales and direct sales with excellent management ability.
• Excellent communication skills, independent analysis and problem solving ability and strong execution power.
• Be able to take the responsibility and solve problems independently and promptly; have keen note of market trends and can response to the changes with constructive measures; be capable of collecting and analyzing marketing information and report to superiors.                 
• Be able to work overtime.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university
• At least 3 years working experience in Electronics or Telecommunications, with 2 years management experience.

Qualified candidates should send their application letters and CV’s quoting relevant skills and experience to sylvanus.asanga@startimes.co.ke. 

Kindly include names of three referees and a daytime telephone contact. 

Interviews will be done on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Logistics Coordinator

Position: Logistics Coordinator
 

Department: Stores and Logistics
 

Reports to: Stores and Logistics manager
 

Supervises: Drivers

Role / Objective summary
 

Coordinate and arrange inventory of stock, product adjustments and distribution of all incoming and outgoing items and also arrange inter warehouse transfers

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitor delivery schedules to ensure timely dispatch and delivery
• Ensure customer contact details are up-to-date in the system
• Maintain Local Purchase Order (LPO) Register and process LPO from sales representatives
• Supporting other departments within the company through planning and scheduling the delivery and collection of goods.
• Prepare and Maintain accurate records of all deliveries.
• Send back canceled and damaged items to vendors/suppliers as appropriate.
• Establish and implement a supply or distribution chain management system and ensure proper documentation, logbooks, fuel consumption and servicing protocols.
• Keep sales representatives updated on the progress of their delivery to customers
• Liaise with the accounts department and credit control on invoicing or credit notes passed
• Work effectively with the stores and logistics manager in resolving inventory or order discrepancies that are outside  your control
• Liaise with the stores department on maintaining documentation supporting order fulfillment, distribution means, and pricing
• Codes, and prepares proper paperwork for billing and authorization of a variety of invoices per defined processes
• Any other duty as assigned by management

Desired Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in supply chain management/purchasing and supplies.
• 2-3years experience in the similar position
• Between 28-32years of age
• Male candidates are preferred
• Good knowledge of IT.

Interested candidates can send their CV to recruitment@workforceassociates.net

On the Subject line indicate LOGISTIC COORDINATOR on or before 30th August, 2012

Centre Manager

Centre Manager – Children’s World (Africa)Ltd
 

Children’s World Africa is an edutainment company dedicated to the education, entertainment and healthy development of children. 

Through a diverse range of creative products such as the purpose designed play centre that has been and built for pay and play activities, the Company endeavors to provide ideas to parents seeking opportunities for their children to play learn and grow in a safe and clean environment that enables them to explore their curiosity while and socializing them positively. 

The play centre is based on Kiambu Road, at the AFMA Centre Gardens.

Children’s World Africa is seeking to employ a suitably qualified person to manage all aspects of the  centre and grow its operations over the next period of its development. 

The candidate we are looking for will have many of the following qualities. 

They will:

• be a self motivated individual with a natural interest in children and child development, able to engage with children with the utmost ease
• be young at heart,  with  a pleasant personality
• be familiar with Montessori methods of child development
• be passionate and have a creative flair where children’s games and creativity count – story telling comes naturally
• have basic management and marketing capabilities, able to reach out to individuals as much as families, schools and corporates
• have great verbal and written communication skills capable of attracting parents and kids to  the centre as the  ideal place for their children’s innovative play, learn and grow endeavours.
• be able to command the attention and interest of parents while giving children their due sense of security and ownership of their affairs
• be a good team player and able to show leadership at all times and among all parties.

If you feel that you are the unique individual we are looking for as outlined above and are interested in talking to us about this position, kindly contact the Director (Operations) at e-mail: kaumbuthos@wananchi.com by August 28, 2012.