We are a recruitment & HR consultancy company, providing a wide range of recruitment and selection services to local and international companies in Africa. Our Team of dedicated consultants offers businesses to get the right and best talent across wide range of sectors and professions.

Africa is experiencing an economic boom in all sectors. It is a dynamic as well as complex & diverse market. Our Specialized approach is backed by deep understanding of all aspects of business and industry in this challenging and growing market whilst retaining our global standards in talent acquisition and HR services.

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Department: Research & Development Division

Responsibilities:

• Technical owner of product & sub product.
• Responsible for Product design, testing & delivery.
• Following processes & implement them into the existing projects and products development.
• Use technical expertise in specific fields
• Target VAS Companies and Telecom Operators

Qualification and Experience:

Experience/Skills:

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Understanding of SQLite/SQL
• Comfortable with Linux command line & version control (git, svn etc)
• 2-6 years experience
• Java , SQLite/SQL
• IntelliJ and Android Studio 
• Understanding of core OOP
• Interfacing with Web Service SAOP Protocol, REST Protocol
• Experienced working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

Soft Skills Required:

• Should be self-motivated and a very good team player.
• Coachable with a willingness to learn
• Strong work ethics
• Should be a self-initiator.
• Should be able to work with minimal guidance
• Should have strong analytical skills and must be comfortable with data.
• Ability to multi-task and be hands-on in a fast-paced environment
• Strong problem solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Position: Workshop Engineer

Responsibilities:

Job Summary

The Workshop Engineer will provide an on-site technical repair and customer service function to automobile clients for the automobile division of the Conglomerate.

Responsibilities

• Updating the status of rental assets and job reports on company asset tracking system 
• Taking responsibility for individual projects, and managing its associated budgets.
• Working closely with vendors ensuring timely arrival of spare parts order / workshop stock.
• To provide advice and feedback to customer(s) on the use of equipment or vehicles.
• Ensuring delivery times are met.
• To provide technical support following company procedures relating to the testing, maintenance and calibration of company rental equipment and ensuring all work is carried out to the highest standards.
• The calibration and maintenance of test equipment (and even inspecting and test driving vehicles and checking for faults) ensuring all is in satisfactory working order at all times.
• To carry out calibrations and preventative maintenance tasks on a scheduled and planned basis.
• Make sure there is a proper vehicle flow through the workshop.
• Ensure the workshop loading is done effectively.
• Updating maintenance & calibration schedules for rental & test equipment 
• Communicating effectively with colleagues at all levels to ensure satisfactory information transfer.
• Supervision of designated workshop engineers; establishing and maintaining a high degree of discipline.
• Training of new employees & Trainee Workshop Engineers.
• Carrying out other occasional duties related to the scope of the job as requested.                        

Qualification and Experience:

Experience/ qualifications

• Degree in Engineering AutomobileMechanical.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in handling workshop floor independently.

Skills/Competencies

• Maintaining good housekeeping practices in all areas of workshop.
• The ability to work within cost constraints and to deadlines.
• Ability to control and maximize productivity from team.
• Leadership and coaching attributes.
• A creative approach to problem solving and a commitment to keep up to date with new technology.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Excellent automotive technical knowledge.
• Maintaining highest standards of safety, ensuring adherence to company HSE Policies at all times 
• Ability to use measuring equipment.

Position: Sales Executive

Responsibilities:

Job Purpose

• To retain and increase the business of existing key accounts.
• To meet and exceed  client goals and aspirations assigned to their travel programme
• To act as the Ambassador of the Organization, developing meaningful, long lasting relationships
• To highlight, document and demonstrate the value and benefit of a continual relationship with the Organization

Responsibilities

• Establish and develop strong relationships with all internal personnel associated with portfolio of accounts (operations, finance, Marketing etc)
• Keep abreast of any industry updates that will affect the customers and report such threats and opportunities to your superior
• Ensure that all clients’ servicing is conducted in line with the Company's Code of Business Conduct.
• Ability to interrogate data, identifying trends and exceptions that can be reported through to the relevant client
• Responsible for managing a portfolio of key accounts effectively and holistically.
• Develop multi layered relationships within the client e.g. Finance, Board, Marketing etc
• Understand client business objectives and build a business plan to demonstrate key strategic goals to be achieved
• Identify areas for growth within portfolio of accounts, be it through acquisitions, subsidiary companies
• Deliver  professional quarterly business reviews, documenting values created,  emerging trends and recommendations
• Maintain and develop excellent supplier and customer relationships, delivering value for all parties
• Assist the company with any promotions and events.
• Ensure that PIR's originating from customer interaction are raised immediately and followed through until satisfactory conclusion
• Travel will be required

Qualification and Experience:

Skills and Requirements

• A good business acumen, with specific focus on business planning and presentation skills.
• Must be able to work as part of a team with a positive attitude to external and internal forces.
• Excellent presentation skills, negotiation and relationship building skills with strong commercial awareness.
• An excellent command of the English language.
• A high level of computer literacy
• At least 2-3 years experience in a customer relations position within the travel and tourism industry, as a preference from a Travel consulting background.
• At least 1 year Account management experience.

Position: Trainer (Power Tools)

Responsibilities:

Overview: 

The objective of the Trainer is to enhance profound tool and application competence for customers and local Power Tool sales staff and thus increase sales in the Regional Sales Organization (RSO). Responsible for coordination of all training related activities in the RSO with several trainers in different Countries.

Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Coordination and concept of training documentation in local languages 
• Long term elaboration of a training concept for vocational schools with the countries 
• Initiation of product launch related activities together with Regional Brand Managers 
• Product and sales training for internal staff and of partners in assigned region 
• Development of a team of local sales trainers in A-countries (train the trainer approach) in order to take over local dealer and user trainings 
• Training coordination and qualification for external services (promoters, merchandisers and demonstrators) 
• Occasional user trainings for big end users
• Elaboration of a region training concept for West Africa 
• Participation in central training in Germany 
• Organization, implementation and coordination of seminars / workshops and events for PT customers (dealer/users) within the RSO. 

Qualification and Experience:

Competencies and Qualifications:

• High competence and flexibility in communication skills 
• Leadership ability within the area of responsibility 
• Knowledge of field-sales processes and commercial use of social media
• Familiar with MS outlook and MS office esp. power point & excel 
• Basic Knowledge in Project Planning 
• Master degree (or similar) in technical and/or economical science  
• Knowledge in didactics and rhetoric issues 
• Able to plan and organize independently  
• Fluent in English, French is a plus
• 3 to 5 years experience 
• High flexibility

Position: Marketing Manager

Responsibilities:

Key Result Areas

•  Top-line & Bottom-line objectives 
•  Institution Business Development 
• Product Introduction and Market Development
• Monitoring Market & Competitor Activities

Responsibilities 

• Achieving business target set for the territory and product management
• Providing Training & Sales aids to all business associates
• Joint market /customer visits on a regular basis.
• Effective negotiation management in terms of merit selling and emphasizing on differentiators
• Analyzing new and existing markets, trends
• Close touch with the existing markets/customers through visits, telecom, customer meets, presentations to key clients, exhibition etc
• New market specific product development to increase penetration in the institution segment
• Planning local promotional activities along with the channel partners
• Standardization of products in Banks and other institutions and government depts.., ministries 
• Regular feedback and daily/weekly reporting on market/customer visits and competitors activities.

Qualification and Experience:

Expectation/ Qualities

• Degree in Marketing and other related fields. 
• Minimum 3 to 4 years experience (Sales & Marketing) preferably in Automobile industry 

Special Skills Required

Monitoring market and competitor activities – Should acquire and keep update about competition –activities of competitors, their pricing policies (especially for large tenders), their market strategies and product portfolio.

• The candidate should be capable of understanding customer requirements and suggest proper solutions for the same and should be able to identify customers who would be buying organizations products. 
•  Good grasping & understanding skills.
•  The candidate should have good negotiation skills and able to close the deals in organizations favour.

How to Apply

Interested and suitably qualified candidates should visit Global Profiler's Career Page