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Senior Software Engineer_ Senegal _CR0010/2021. 2

Product Designer_ Senegal _CR0009/2021. 4

Venture Designer_ Senegal _CR0008/2021. 5

Venture Builder_ Senegal _CR0006/2021. 7

ITSM Technical Consultant_South Africa__CR0004/2021. 8

HUB Manager_ Kenya_ CR0022/2021. 10

BUSINESS DEVELOPER FILIALE _ Cote d'Ivoire_CR0023/2021. 13

Quality manager _ Nigeria_CR0024/2021. 14

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Senior Software Engineer_ Senegal _CR0010/2021

• Rue Baffa Sene, Dakar, Senegal

·????????Full-time

Company Description

Our client is looking for a software engineer to support his expansion strategy. The software engineer’s main role is to transform prototypes into functioning applications. He or she will work closely with the product designer, venture designer and venture builder to ensure inputs are fully taken into consideration.

Job Description

·????????Analyse requirements, design, code, and debug web-based applications

·????????Apply regression testing techniques to ensure quality of deployed applications

·????????Utilize a full lifecycle application development process leveraging Agile Development Lifecycle

·????????Continually improve applications through performance tuning, balancing, usability, and automation

·????????Provide support, maintain and document developed applications and interfaces

·????????Integrate software with existing systems

·????????Actively plan and manage continuous multiple small to medium sized projects

·????????Comply to established standards

Qualifications

·????????A full-stack generalist with 3+ years of experience building web applications

·????????Experienced at writing clean, scalable code with significant experience in one or more scripting languages

·????????Excited to move fast, prioritize, and constantly make critical product decisions

·????????Comfortable with and curious about working outside of a traditional narrow engineering role

·????????A self-starter: you have started something on your own before - a start-up, an open-source project, something else

·????????A deep love of start-ups?

Additional Information

Additional Information

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

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Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

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Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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Product Designer_ Senegal _CR0009/2021

• Av. du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal
• Full-time

Company Description

Our client is looking to expand his business and he is lookng for a product designer to support the business in refining the product and market study.

Job Description

The product designer helps lead and build elegant, user-friendly products in various end markets. Primary responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:

• Rapid prototyping -- take a fuzzy concept and make it tangible, quickly
• User journey mapping. storyboards, wireframes, and user journey flows to communicate the full cycle of the user experience
• Translate UX into simple, elegant, visually pleasing designs?
• Lead and execute our design system -- we are building multiple companies every year and would like to carry over many design elements from company to company
• Drive user testing, research, and feedback loops -- get in front of customers (and potential customers) to lead product design sessions with curiosity
• Run point with engineering teams as we get into the details of building the product

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product design experience in digital products and systems
• A highly organized thinker and project manager, coupled with great aesthetic sensibilities
• Deep knowledge of best practices, trends in product design, an understanding of the latest and greatest tools, and an intrinsic desire to continually learn new technologies / techniques
• Efficient and self-directed
• Willing and able to assist with marketing projects -- from logo creation to building presentation templates and other forms of collateral
• Excellent communicator -- both written and oral
• Has worked extensively with engineering teams and understands how to work with and thrive in an engineering environment
• Able to balance competing priorities, and multiple projects simultaneously
• Started something on your own before - a start-up, an open-source project, something else

Additional Information

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

?Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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Venture Designer_ Senegal _CR0008/2021

• Av. du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal
• Full-time

Company Description

Our client is looking to launch a new product to improve its production effeciency. It is looking for experts to support the mission of business.

Job Description

Job Description.?

The Venture Designer leads the design of products and provides structure and process as the business grows. You will focus on desirability and product market fit, from opportunity to a defined MVP.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying market trends and opportunities.
• Designing new products and services from scratch shaping the product and business strategy.
• Taking big ideas and turning them into concepts that are tangible for business stakeholders.
• Testing and validating the business appeal by conducting early-stage qualitative research using methods such as ethnographic studies, qualitative interviews, and experience mapping.
• Workshopping solutions with the wider client’s Team.
• Designing business models for early-stage concepts.
• Constantly experimenting with new technologies and tools to drive innovation and creativity.
• Presenting new concepts to partners and other stakeholders.
• Create a go to market strategy with clear differentiating factors.
• You will walk the line between product design, product strategy and commercial rigour.

Qualifications

• Experience in human centred design approaches, lean methodologies and principles of product development
• Solid product / graphic design chops, or be willing to learn
• Ability to tease out problems and rapid experimentation
• Comfortable working across multiple projects with competing priorities
• A proven track record of taking ideas and bringing them to life across a range of industries
• Organised with a strong attention to detail and an ability to balance detail with the big picture
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
• Has worked with a variety of products and industries?
• Thrive in uncertainty, being comfortable with taking risks
• Be a self-starter and comfortable working with little direction or oversight
• Deep interest in start-ups and the tech space

Additional Information

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

?Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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Venture Builder_ Senegal _CR0006/2021

• Av. du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal
• Full-time

Company Description

Our client is looking to launch a new product to improve its production effeciency. It is looking for experts to support the mission of business.

Job Description

Our client?is?looking for a change maker?with a passion for business, process improvements, and capacity to turn ideas into working products.

Responsibilities:

• Exploring investment, business, and collaboration opportunities
• Driving venture development process from ideation, feasibility studies (looking for a problem-solution fit), prototyping (MVP) to commercial roll-out
• Assisting in the management of operational aspects of new ventures under the Company
• Networking, liaising, and negotiating with the Company’s current and potential business partners, assisting in deal closure
• Find, train, and grow a local team to lead the venture building aspect after your mission is completed
• Pitch new ventures to future investors, technical and commercial partners

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience as a venture builder
• Experience as a venture leader/business founder who has built and scaled a business and continues to do so with successful exits or played this role in a larger organization
• Flexibility & international exposure
• Creativity, strong interpersonal skills and excellent analytical abilities
• Resilient and resourceful
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to details
• Capable of multitasking, able to prioritise workflow and manage multiple projects with minimal to moderate direction
• Position?based in Dakar, Senegal

Additional Information

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

?Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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ITSM Technical Consultant_South Africa__CR0004/2021

• Johannesburg Rd, Lyndhurst, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Full-time

Company Description

Our client is a leading Enterprise Service Management (ESM)/IT Service Management (ITSM) technical consulting and training company with global reach. They help blue chip companies drive service and revenue performance through process automation, digital transformation, and customer experience improvement.

They are a leading Ivanti partner with focus on ESM/ITSM Technical Consulting and Training, delivering Ivanti Service Manager Technical Implementation and Training to customers and partners worldwide. Their customers include Fortune Global 1000 companies, spanning different industries across Africa, Americas, Europe and Australasia.

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Job Description

Our client is looking for IT Service Management Consultants to join their growing team on a permanent basis. If you are a multifaceted technical consultant with good knowledge of MS SQL who can design, implement technical solutions, write documents, perform Pre-Sales function and Train customers, this is for you.

Responsibilities:

As an ITSM Technical Consultant, you will provide ITSM technical consulting leadership in the creation and delivery of various ITSM technology solutions, designed to meet customers’ business needs, based on clear understanding of customers ' businesses.

As a trusted advisor, you will create and maintain effective customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction.

You are expected to maintain knowledge of leading-edge technologies and industry use cases.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or similar field of study
• 4+ years of IT Service Management (ITSM) technical experience.
• ITIL Foundation
• Preferably holds a vendor or industry certification in at least one or more of the following:
• BMC Remedy,
• BMC Helix,
• CA Service Desk Plus,
• ServiceNow,
• Micro Focus,
• Ivanti ISM,
• Cherwell,
• Microsoft MCSA, MS DBA.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good listening skills.
• Ability to work in a multi technology environment with a team to provide responses to technical proposals and deliver technical solutions.
• Can work remotely without supervision.
• You are a fast, effective thinker and problem solver.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with people on all levels in the organization.

Additional Information

Additional Information:

Knowledge of:

• MS SQL Database
• Programming familiar with languages like PowerShell, JavaScript, Web Services and XML
• Requirements analysis
• MS Windows Server
• Technical documentation writing
• One or more ITSM technologies such as Micro Focus SMA-X, S Ivanti Service Manager, BMC ITSM Remedy, Service Now, Cherwell, CA Service Desk Plus,
• Microsoft SQL SSRS report builder

Open to all nationalities but candidates should be eligible for SA work permit.

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

?Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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HUB Manager_ Kenya_ CR0022/2021

• Nairobi Rd, Mau Summit, Kenya
• Full-time

·????????Job ad Reference : CR0022/2021.

·????????Job title : Hub Manager of Kenya.

·????????Location:?Nairobi, Kenya.

·????????Type : Permanent contract

·????????Monthly net fixed salary : $2113????????????

·????????Monthly net variable salary : $528

·????????Transport allowance :?A transport car and 100 L of fuel

·????????Location : Nairobi, Kenya, possibility of remote working (but the person should be based in Kenya)

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Company Description

Our client is a fintech aggregator of digital and payment services. It started in Senegal (HQ) in 2014 and?currently has subsidiaries in 9 African countries: Ivory Coast, Mali, Cameroon, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Burkina Faso. More than 30,000 distribution points (including 1000+ Total filling stations) use their platform, and more than 800 corporate customers have integrated?solutions.

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Job Description

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the CEO/CCO and as a Hub Manager of Kenya, the job holder contributes to build market position by locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing business relationships in Kenya, Uganda et Tanzania.

He/she will specially :?

?1. Develop the local market for the client;?

2. Acquire structured networks and ensure the sales of the client's products in those networks;

3. Build business cases to support the implementation of each service;?

4. Acquire new segments of businesses for the client;?

5. Develop innovative and growth strategy processes for business development for the client;?

6. Represent the company vision and values;?

7. Develop activities to strengthen business relationships with partners;?

8. Actively participate in all business events of the client in Kenya at all pilot stages and full roll-out;?

9. Build high-level presentations for each partner before their launch in the client’s network;

10. Develop teamwork spirit and work well with others departments so as to achieve organization's business goals;?

11. Marketing research and research on the business opportunities and viable income streams;

12. Report writing and business proposal writing;?

13. Business Development projections;?

14. Negotiate with stakeholders;?

15. Progress reports on the acquired customers and business progress;?

16. generate relevant monthly reports that pertain the business development department as a whole;?

17. Identify and map business strengths and customer needs;?

18. Manage Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania staff.

Qualifications

Higher education in business, marketing or engineering (Master or Postgraduate Degree)?

? At least 10 years of working experience?

? High-level communication skills

?? Stakeholder management skills

?? Proven ability to negotiate?

? Experience with design and implementation of business development strategy?

? Conflict resolution?

? The ability to self-motivate and motivate a team

? Experience working to and exceeding targets?

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES?

? Good knowledge of financial services and/or bank and Fintech industry?

? Good knowledge of distribution networks?

? Socially adept?

? Good with numbers

?? Creative talents and the ability to solve tough problems?

? The ability to handle pressure and meet deadlines?

? Skill in prioritizing and triaging obligations?

? Attention to detail

? Excellent time management and organization?

? Team player?

? French as a plus?

? CRM as a plus

?? Entrepreneurial experiences/mindset desired?

Additional Information

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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BUSINESS DEVELOPER FILIALE _ Cote d'Ivoire_CR0023/2021

• Av. de la C?te d'Ivoire, Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire
• Full-time

Company Description

Notre client est une start-up basée au Sénégal qui a été créée en 2014.?En plus du Sénégal, le client compte des filiales dans treize (13) pays (Cameroun, Guinée Conakry, Ouganda, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mali, Tanzanie, Nigeria, C?te d’Ivoire et Mozambique, Afrique du Sud, égypte et le Maroc). A fin 2022, le client aura déployé sa plateforme dans 35 pays en Afrique. Le client est spécialisé?dans la mise en place et l’intégration de services transactionnels autour de plateformes web et mobiles. A cet effet, le client offre une agrégation de différents moyens de paiement et donne un accès simple et fiable à plusieurs services financiers digitaux par le biais d’un outil unique et d’un large réseau d’agents. Le client travaille déjà avec le réseau TOTAL sur?l’ensemble du territoire sénégalais et dans les 13 autre pays africains. Leur?ambition est d’être le partenaire de confiance de chaque transaction digitale en Afrique.

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Job Description

Le Business Developer sera chargé de l’exécution du GoToMarket, de l’accompagnement pour la mise en place complète des pilotes, de l’acquisition des clients, de la commercialisation des produits, ainsi que de l’animation des Clients Corporate.

Principales missions:?

1. Acquisition de Clients Corporate et Réseaux de Distribution structurés au niveau Pays

?2. Monitoring et suivi des activités des?Clients Corporate?

3. Assurer une croissance soutenue des ventes?

4. Reporting

Qualifications

? Bonne connaissance des services financiers;?

? Bonne connaissance de la vente B2B et de la distribution;?

? Autonomie et esprit d’initiative

Additional Information

• Contrat CDI?
• Poste basé en C?te d’Ivoire
• ?Salaire?500?000 CFA franc fixe net?+ 100?000 CFA franc variable net + 100 L de carburant
• Date d’affichage?Octobre 13,2021
• Apply: [email protected]

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Quality manager _ Nigeria_CR0024/2021

• Niger Rd, Fagge 700211, Kano, Nigeria
• Full-time

·????????Work eligibility: Priority to Nigerian and open to Western African?

·????????Salary: $2000 net monthly.

·????????Permanent contract?

·????????Location: Kano, Nigeria,

Company Description

Our client is a subsidiary of Nutriset Group which was established to provide technical support in?the specialized manufacturing, commercialization and distribution process of ready-to-use food for the?treatment and prevention of malnutrition in Nigeria.?

With a population of nearly 180 million people, Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa. However, every?year, over 500,000 children under the age of five years old die from malnutrition. About 1.7million of Nigerian?children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and close to a third of the 10 million under 5 age children?suffer from chronic malnutrition;?

Our client is dedicated to the fight against malnutrition in Nigeria. The?company specialized in manufacturing nutritional food used for the care of children affected by malnutrition.?The client?supplies humanitarian and health programmes with high quality ready-to-use-therapeutic and?supplementary food (RUTF, RUSF), as well as lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS).?

The client?is now looking for a Quality Manager for its quality department to carry out its activities in Kano.?

?Job Description

Ensure that all tasks to be carried out in order to guarantee food safety have been carried out in?accordance with the applicable requirements. But also to make sure that all the conditions for working in a?healthy environment are met. Supervise HSE-related activities.?

?1. Managerial Responsibilities?

• Relations with the various stakeholders:?
• Conflicts resolution between people?
• Organize and lead the Quality and HSE??
• Time management within the department?
• Develop a master plan taking into account the objectives of the general management in terms?of quality and all the requirements relating to food safety, customer requests, regulations and?constraints of the company and policies.?
• Ensure technological and competitive intelligence on the departmental responsibilities.?
• Integrate the different standards in an integrated management system by interpreting the?applicable standards?
• Define and negotiate the objectives for the year, the means to be implemented, the monitoring?or audit procedures, the corresponding budget?
• Participate in communication, promotion of the all food safety policies.?
• Be able to provide cross-functional management.

?2. Functional Responsibilities?

?Ensure the implementation and maintenance of FSSC 22000 certificates?

• Respect of the franchise quality requirements??
• Carry out customer audits?
• Supervise activities related to hygiene, quality, food safety, HSE?
• Prepare the management review;?
• Train staff on the policy of the integrated food quality and safety management system;
• ?Ensure regulatory watch;??
• Maintain up-to-date documented information relating to occupational safety and health;?
• ?Maintain up-to-date documented information relating to the quality and safety of foodstuffs;?
• Member of the HACCP team;?
• Train staff on Good Hygiene Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices, and Good Maintenance?Practices;?
• ?Provide training for internal auditors;?
• ?Plan and manage the internal and external quality control audit activities.?
• Implement preventive and corrective actions?
• Develop and monitor the execution of the schedule of process reviews;?
• ?Member of the crisis committee;?
• Perform crisis simulations/Mock recalls at least once a year?
• Perform supplier audits with the supply and logistics department and keep the list of approved?suppliers up to date;?
• Make the RM and FP releases on a good and functional traceability matrix even in the absence?of an ERP.?
• Develop a schedule of department activities and ensure its execution;?
• ?Make a trend study on the results of release analyzes and monitoring;?
• Make a trend study on Pest control results, environmental analysis?
• Carry out a trend study on the non-conformities noted on the materials and the finished?product;?
• Maintain the monitoring analysis control plan;?
• ?Hold weekly meetings with direct reports and Provide coaching for direct reports;?
• Make decisions on complex management issues;?
• ?Define the objectives of the department;?
• ?Define and monitor the implementation of internal and external communication; ? Develop a budget for the department and monitor its implementation;?
• Mediate and elaborate with HR the contracts of the canteen providers.??
• Mediate and elaborate with the Cleaning/waste disposal, Pest control and calibration;?

Qualifications

Language skills: English Language?

Education degree: Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or any related field.?

Work experience: 5 years minimum experience in a food industry plant with 2 years in the same capacity.

?Other required skills;?

? Previous experience in a Managerial capacity.

? Self-motivated with proven leadership skills.?

? Proficient in Microsoft Office.?

? Must be able to work in a team environment.?

? Must have a positive attitude.?

? Must have good written and oral communication skills.?

? Ability to work in a fast-paced, effectively under pressure, and deadline-oriented environment. ? Flexible availability?

? Ability to establish relationship with Stakeholder and solve issues?

? Rigor and commendable work methods,?

? Ability to analyze and synthesize,?

? Knowledge of manufacturing processes,?

? Mastery of statistical analysis tools as well as company control techniques?

? Food industry knowledge?

? Goal oriented and achieving??

? Confidence?

Additional Information

Interested Applicants should send their Resumes to: [email protected]

?Not later than Friday 29th Oct 2021

Note: The position needs to be filled in the shortest time possible. The recruiter will cease to take on applications when the required number of candidates is reached.

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