Appliance World Ltd, the Authorized Distributors for LG in
Uganda is Now Hiring
Job Title: Sales & Marketing Manager
About the Company
Appliance World Ltd (the company) is one of the largest organisations in Uganda dealing in consumer electronics (refrigerators, microwaves, audio products, televisions, and washing machines), commercial air conditioning and mechanical ventilation, mobile phones, computers/network monitors.
The company is the authorized distributor for LG Electronics, Russell Hobbs
& YAMAHA Audio in Uganda and employees in the region of 150 members. The
company also operates an LG Authorized Service Centre.Job Title: Sales & Marketing Manager
About the Company
Appliance World Ltd (the company) is one of the largest organisations in Uganda dealing in consumer electronics (refrigerators, microwaves, audio products, televisions, and washing machines), commercial air conditioning and mechanical ventilation, mobile phones, computers/network monitors.
The company has 4 large warehouses and in the region of 12 commercial vehicles used for delivery, installation, etc. Appliance World Ltd has been in existence since 2001 and continues to
grow. It is also one of the largest tax payers in Uganda.
Role Overview
Your position is very key and ‘central’ to the organisation. The nature of your role involves constant pressure, doing multiple tasks at once, long hours and a lot of hard work.
In essence, you will be coordinating/communicating with most departments within the company including, the service centre, the imports department, the finance department, the tendering department, the showroom & the stores.
You must be friendly, easy to approach and a ‘relationship builder’.
The main customers that you will be involved in dealing with are the dealers of Appliance World Ltd (in the region of 45 independently owned outlets), and large corporate clientele (the company currently does business with most banks, corporates, schools, telecom companies and Government).
Business planning/forecasting, ordering, costing, setting prices, constantly communicating with your dealers all fall under your umbrella. You will be a key central point of contact. You MUST be an excellent leader and be very good at building and maintaining relationships. The standards and expectations you will be required to meet will be the highest in the industry. The role itself
is a difficult one and one with a lot of pressure. Management of company will expect a lot from you.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Communication
& coordinate with the company’s international suppliers. You will be
communicating with approx. 10 – 15 different people who work for our
suppliers as they each represent different products. Your communication
will involve discussing ordering, forecasting, pricing, marketing
activities, market intelligence, branding, expansion of outlets,
dealers/distributors, etc. You will be receiving 100 – 150 important
emails per day.
- Forecasting
your orders 12 months in advance, reviewing and changing your orders on a
monthly basis, ensuring that stock levels are optimal (not too low, not
too high), working out the landed costs, setting dealer & showroom
prices, maintaining all this data in an organised format.
- Managing
distributors. This involves checking on them regularly, talking to them,
taking their orders, ensuring that orders are supplied on time, making
reports on each dealers performance, setting targets for dealers, ensuring
that our display is optimal, seeing that their staff are well trained in
all areas of customer service and product knowledge.
- Managing
large corporates/clientele. The company does regular business with
corporates and other large clientele. You will personally be dealing with
all issues with these important clients from making quotations to
communicating with them, getting orders confirmed, ensuring that delivery,
installation and service is to their satisfaction.
- Reporting.
Your skills in MS-Excel must be EXCELLENT. You will be required to produce
a multitude of reports which you will design basing on managements
‘vision’. Do not take this task lightly as it takes a lot of time and
accuracy is of utmost importance.
- Business
& Cash Flow Planning. Like most companies, we have allocated amounts
of ‘working capital’ for the business to operate on. You will be doing
cash flow planning which involves coordinating when money comes ‘in’ and
when money goes ‘out’, i.e. for payments. There should always be a ‘safe’
surplus balance.
- Coordinating/communicating
with internal departments. You must be able to ‘get along’ with people
with different characters and from different backgrounds. A lot of your
role with involve in dealing with the Head of Service, Air Conditioning,
Tenders, Showroom, Finance & Stores. Some of the people you deal with
may not be the most open or helpful people, but your skill in building
relationship and indirect leadership will come in here.
Job Title: Air
Conditioning & Mechanical Ventilation Design Engineer & Project Manager
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Must
have solid experience in designing for centralized air cooled air
conditioning systems, eg, LG Multi V III and Diaken VRV III.
- Do
heat load calculations and design for a suitable air conditioning &
mechanical ventilation system for large commercial buildings using
architectural drawings.
- Excellent
knowledge of AutoCAD is & interpreting site/ building layout drawings
is a must.
- Read,
understand and interpret contract agreements that the company will sign on
the award of a contract.
- Prepare
work programs using MS-Project, attend site meetings, get daily updates
from the technical team on site ensure that our progress is on track.
- Experience
in having fully managed air conditioning projects from the design stage to
testing and commissioning is a strong advantage.
- Clear,
concise and meticulous communication and reporting is a must.
- Excellent
knowledge on how the a commercial project is managed through consultants
is important.
Qualification and abilities
- A
university degree in Mechanical Engineering and strong experience in a
similar role.
Job Title: Air
Conditioning & Mechanical Ventilation Site Supervisor / Foreman
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Proficiency
in interpreting air conditioning & mechanical ventilation drawings is
mandatory.
- Must
have excellent technical knowledge in centralized air cooled air
conditioning systems such as LG Multi V & Diakin VRV. I.e. you should
have strong experience as a hands on technician.
- Ability
to diagnose and repair faults on centralized and split air conditioning
systems.
- You
will be managing large projects and leading a team. The ability to follow
a work program and ensure that works are completed on time and to an
excellent standard is a must.
- Having
hands on experience to predict in advance and avoid any
errors/shortcomings that you may foresee in an proposed installation.
- Working
hand in hand with the main contractor and the electrical subcontractor to
see that works that you depend on are communicated clearly and completed
on time to allow you to complete your scope of works.
Qualification and abilities
- A
diploma/degree in refrigeration technology.
- A
minimum experience of 3 years in fully supervising commercial HVAC
projects from the mobilization of the team on site to testing and
commissioning.
Deadline for submission: Thursday,5th January 2012
How to Apply:
Email your covering letter and CV/Resume to:
1. jobs@applianceworld.co.ug
Interviews will be held between 15th January, 2012 and 15th February, 2012 in Nairobi and the selected candidates will be notified.
In case of any Questions or if you Need Help contact:
Provia Ayebare.
The Human Resource and Administration manager,
Appliance World Ltd,
Plot 1-5 Spring Close,
P.O BOX 10608,
Kampala
Tel:+256 781 861 203.
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