- Role: Marketing and Operations Lead
- Venture: Annona
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Annona is an award-winning social enterprise that is taking global supply chains by storm. We are perfecting a mobile platform that simplifies contract management and payments with small- scale producers worldwide. Night and day we think about how to make information, communication and operations both cheaper and efficient.
The Annona platform is a mobile application to document details a buyer would otherwise write down on paper and pen. The web app keeps track of this information in a central cloud-based database for administrators and managers to customize and approve processes for their company.
25,000 farmers have profiles on Annona in 15 countries. We are on a path to becoming the largest platform for small-scale producer trading in the world.
About You
We are looking for someone to help us execute our customer engagement strategy. Annona attracts users from all over the world, and from many channels. From exporters in Kenya to NGOs based in Ecuador, we see new users join Annona every week. This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya and will work directly with the CEO to create, perfect and execute scalable teams and systems in marketing and engagement. Our team has been handed a strategy to provide the best user experience and we are looking for a fellow to manage the systems to implement it over the year using data-driven methods.
Sound exciting? Here’s who we are looking for.
Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years working experience; Preferably 5+ years experience in a startup
- Bachelor’s degree
- English fluency required (written and spoken) and other languages are a plus (French/Spanish/Swahili preferred)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Digital communications experience, preferably to external and internal audiences
- Systems thinker and implementer
- Demonstrated entrepreneurial aptitude: Annona hasn’t done much communication work so far
- Preferred understanding of agricultural supply chains / new payment technologies or demonstrate fast learning of new concepts / ideas
- High personal standard for excellence
