Job Experience: Experience of 6 years

  • Project Manager

    Project Manager

    PURPOSE:
    To ensure implementation of assigned projects within the planned time and budget and to the satisfaction project owners and users.
    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Plan the project; defining the scope, developing work plan and schedules, determine the required resources and set objectives and measures in consultation with the appropriate stakeholders
    Manage project management staff according to the established policies and practices
    Timely Implementation of the group as well as subsidiary projects. This will include; executing the project according to the project plan, develop records to document project activities, monitor the progress of the project and make adjustments as necessary to ensure the successful completion of the project, establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders and review the quality of the work completed with the project team
    Monitoring and Controlling; monitoring the project progress and communicate to project sponsors, monitor budgeted expenditures and project cash flows, maintain financial records and any supporting documents and manage change requests as per the change management plan
    Evaluate the projects; ensuring that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality and evaluating the outcomes of the project as established during the planning phase
    Create and maintain a comprehensive project documentation
    Measure project performance using appropriate project management tools

    PERSON SPECIFICATIONS Academic
    Qualifications

    Degree in Business, project management or other relevant degree

    Professional Qualifications

    Project Management Certification

    Experience

    Four (6) years’ relevant experience. With Two (2) at Supervisory level.

    Skills and Attributes

    Analytical skills
    Project management skills
    Interpersonal and communication skills
    Knowledge of Prince2
    Analytical Skills

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    cic.co.ke

  • Reinsurance Manager – General Business 

Assistant Claims Analyst – General Business

    Reinsurance Manager – General Business Assistant Claims Analyst – General Business

    PURPOSE:
    Responsible for designing an optimal reinsurance programs, assessment and placement of risks and reinsurance recoveries for the group.
    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Review all risks acceptances to ensure they are protected by proper reinsurance arrangement;
    Monitor the reinsurance register to ensure risks are correctly allocated into the relevant treaties;
    Negotiate and review reinsurance contracts (best rates and terms) at each reinsurance renewal period;
    Underwrite inward facultative business;
    Prepare reinsurance underwriting and claims statistics for reinsurance renewals and review of profitability of the reinsurance program;
    Grow inward facultative business and collect premiums, through acquisition of new and retention of existing business;
    Place all risks that are in excess of capacity;
    Prepare and file quarterly reinsurance returns and
    Negotiate special acceptances of unusual risks.
    Ensure facultative premiums are collected on time.
    Ensure treaty recoveries are done on time.
    Collect all outstanding debt on premiums and claims recoveries
    Process and ensure all custom bonds are canceled immediately they fall due.

    GENERIC DUTIES

    Carry out performance appraisal, coaching and mentoring staff;
    Resource allocation, staffing and leave approval;
    Participate in planning and budgeting for the department;
    Participate in various meeting and committees.

    PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
    Academic Qualifications

    Bachelor’s degree in a business related field

    Professional Qualifications

    ACII or AIIK is mandatory

    Experience

    Minimum of six (6) years’ relevant experience, two (2) of which at supervisory level

    Skills and Attributes

    Excellent communication and presentation skills
    Problem solving skills
    Excellent interpersonal skills
    Good negotiation skills
    Good analytical skills
    Computer literate in MS Office and other office applications
    Understanding of the working environment /competitors
    Technical competence in insurance
    Basic knowledge of regulations by AKI and IRA

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  • Sr. Backend & Database Developer/Engineer

    Sr. Backend & Database Developer/Engineer

    Description
    Flare is a real-time platform that brings together the fragmented ecosystem of emergency responders in emerging markets. We use real-time and managed data to coordinate emergency response to save lives. Described as the the 911 of the future, by Fast company, Flare uses modern technologies to save lives and make peace-of-mind accessible to billions of people living without access to emergency support.
    A database-centric backend is at the core of the success and functionality of our platform – and we’re looking to grow the backend team with additional senior/experienced developers, fluent in database best practices, real-time big data management, system scalability, and, of course, writing quality production-ready code.
    Requirements

    6+ years of relevant industry experience
    Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining core backend software components and services
    Strong data architecture expertise with the ability to implement secure and performant relational databases (deep knowledge of PosgreSQL is particularly desirable)
    Excellent SQL and analytical skills
    Experience with GraphQL, Node.js (JavaScript/Typescript) and Amazon Web Services
    Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, and performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems
    Experience with production distributed systems, web applications and integrations with third-party APIs
    Proven track record building highly available and highly scalable systems
    Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
    Amazing communication and collaboration skills, team-oriented work style

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    apply.workable.com

  • Manager- SOC Automations

    Manager- SOC Automations

    The Cyber Data SOC Automation Manager will engineer critical cyber data automation solutions to more accurately detect, protect and respond to cyber vulnerabilities, threat or events. The candidate will perform hands-on the full engineering life cycle. It includes internal and external partner’s engagement, architecture alignment, to shape the product vision / capability / technology evolution, to own and deliver the product projects and to ensure solid continuous Dev/OPS. The candidate will pay continuous attention to enhance the product delivered business value, user experience and capabilities while optimizing its full costs and technical reliability / simplicity. This exciting and unique role is bridging 2 key domain expertise’s:

    the cyber world with network security, end point security, app security, vulnerability DB, SIEM’s, identity and authorization management.
    the data engineering/analytics/ automation world: ingesting and blending data from multiple systems and building advanced solutions to automate and enrich the ISRM and cyber tasks and data flows.

    Specific Responsibilities

    Proactively engage with her/his internal key cyber security business & IT partners to empathize with their strategic, tactical and analytical needs, focusing on the following teams: Cyber Security Operations, Network Security, End Point Security, Identity and Access Management, IT Risk Management, Cyber Architecture & Vulnerability Assessments, Business Risk Management.
    Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing features, optimizing cost and improving delivery efficiency
    Build and maintain ISRM data & SOAR automation, translating user stories from the backlog into working code, using modern design patterns and architectural principles
    Lead a global security automation program that focuses on the orchestration of security workflows that dramatically increases speed to value, reduces human error, and empowers CSOC members when performing security incident triage and resolution.
    Maintain and fix any issues related to the Cortex XSOAR platform to ensure minimal downtime, working with the vendor as necessary.
    Develop a wide gamut of Cortex XSOAR integrations and playbooks with security tools and services within Johnson & Johnson.
    Write code that is high quality, well documented, and efficient and is easy to maintain and update. Move code through environments and into production (e.g. Release Process).
    Drive testing and deployment of software solution, including ensuring automated testing to ensure solution quality
    Improve operational efficiency by developing additional automation tools and scripts (e.g., CI/CD automation)
    Build and operate infrastructure, toolset, and deployment pipelines
    Work closely with other Software Engineers and QAs to understand the system end-to-end
    Support product owner in defining stories and Lead Engineer in defining technical solutions
    Manage technical debt, including vulnerability scanning
    Provide ongoing solution support, incl. incident and problem management (L2+), root cause analysis, request fulfilment, security compliance, fault repair, resiliency testing, and observability

    Required
    Qualifications

    A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is required, or equivalent years of experience in a comparable role with a demonstrable track record of successful experiences
    A minimum of 6 years of Cyber security data engineering and SIEM experience is required, preferably in a large global organization with at least 2 years’ experience in Python and SQL coding. Experience must include architecture, engineering, and operational support of those solutions.
    Excellent hands-on, multi-functional skills in multiple technology areas such as servers, network, data center and applications
    Experience within highly regulated GxP or SOx environment
    Strong presence, influencing, collaboration, information-sharing and organizational skills
    Intermediate skills, verbal and written, in English communication
    Ability to work independently, in fast paced environment and prioritize in parallel while managing expectations. Curious and fast learner
    Exercise independent judgment, strong decision making and problem solving for key processes
    Must have a strong customer service orientation, eye for business value, and a bias for action.
    Great teammate, works with virtual, global teams – including diverse groups of people with varied backgrounds and cultural experiences
    experience in leading mid-sized technical IT projects end-to-end, influencing others without having supervisory responsibility
    Experience in a multi-platform, multi-vendor large enterprise
    A constant learner, look for new ways to implement features and functions that creates higher levels of customer satisfaction

    Preferred

    An advanced degree in IT
    Cyber certification: CISSP or CISM with deep expertise of network / server / db / app / user security, configuration and cyber related data points
    Solid experience in engineering SOAR / SIEM IT data products to mine, blend, process, and analyze very large volumes of structure, semi and unstructured data (gigabytes and terabytes) at high velocity
    Experience integrating with security tools and services through diverse APIs.
    Experience working with ServiceNow, both from a user and programmatic standpoint
    Hands-on experience with SIEMs and associated investigations and alerting within them is a plus.
    Experience in advanced SQL query development & database modelling is a plus.
    Agile Scrum / Product Owner / PMP certification is a plus.

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    jobs.jnj.com

  • Deputy County Returning Officer 

Deputy Constituency Returning Officer (290 Posts) 

Presiding and Deputy Presiding Officers 

Logistics Officers 

Support Electoral Trainers (SETs) 

ICT Clerks 

Polling/Counting Clerks 

County-Based Voter Educators 

Constituency-Based Voter Educators 

Ward-Based Voter Educators

    Deputy County Returning Officer Deputy Constituency Returning Officer (290 Posts) Presiding and Deputy Presiding Officers Logistics Officers Support Electoral Trainers (SETs) ICT Clerks Polling/Counting Clerks County-Based Voter Educators Constituency-Based Voter Educators Ward-Based Voter Educators

    Duties and Responsibilities 

    Deputize the County Returning Officer in making all necessary 
    arrangements for the conduct of a free fair and credible General Election;
    Any other duty assigned by the County Returning Officer.

    Requirements 

    Be a Kenyan citizen, and non-partisan;
    Hold a Degree certificate from a recognized institution;
    Have at least six (6) years of work experience at supervisory level in the public or private sector;
    Must be computer literate;
    Computation of data skills will be an added advantage;
    Must be of good character with no political affiliation;
    Must be willing to work anywhere in the country;
    Willing to work for long hours with minimal supervision; 
    Must be of high integrity and abide with the Commission’s Code of Conduct; and
    Must be a resident of the County applied for.

    Terms and Conditions 

    Deputy County Returning Officers will be engaged for at least Sixty (60) days.
    Wages will be Kshs. 4,000/= for each day worked with no additional benefits or allowances.

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    Applicants who strictly meet the requirements should apply online at the IEBC jobs portal using the link below:
    All applications to be submitted not later than close of business on 5th May 2022

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    jobs.iebc.or.ke

  • Operations Team Leader 

Senior Sales Executive- Office Automation

    Operations Team Leader Senior Sales Executive- Office Automation

    Job Overview 
    The Operations Team leader directs, oversees, optimizes, and provides strategic direction and  leadership across all department in the organization. You will lead the development and deployment  of manufacturing practices focused on safety, quality, diversity, and continuous  improvement. Establishes systems to collect metrics, analyse results, and set performance targets  that will meet the goals of the organization. 
    Key responsibilities: 

    Responsible for the oversight manufacturing facility and directly manages and provides  leadership to facility Manager and their teams. 
    Coordinate strategy (On behalf of MD) to realize ambitions set out in the corporate plan. ∙ 
    Directs manufacturing activities to ensure good quality and on time delivery to customers.
    Develops, reviews, and implements strategies and actions resulting in continuous  improvement in safety, product quality, product delivery, productivity, material utilization,  customer service, workforce diversity, quality of work life, and lower manufacturing costs. 
    Participates in strategic planning process (including the Sales & Operations Planning process) and develops long-range plans to meet business profit and growth objectives. 
    Act as a Liaison between your Deputies and Top management and support them to ensure  they achieve their key responsibilities. 
    Serve as Primary Liaison to legal counsel in addressing legal issues e.g. governing  instrument, partnerships, licensing etc. 
    Oversee organizational insurance policies and compliance. 
    Develops, maintains, and improves metrics monitoring performance and attainment of key  goals and objectives. 
    Oversee IT and premises as well as coordination and communication between all operational  functions 
    On need based, Collaborate with key business leaders to ensure reliable and timely supply  of products to their premises. 
    Responsible for all aspects of the budget for the Operations group; including capital and  expense planning, managing to the monthly forecast, and cost reductions as necessary. 
    Partners with Quality, Engineering and Finance to coordinate the manufacturing process  for the introduction of new products, equipment, processes, and technology.
    Ensures robust operational and security procedures and training are in place, and that  operations are following compliance as required by legislation and company Quality Policy. 
    Forges close relationships with members of the Senior Leadership Team and other key  stakeholders like Auditors, to ensure best practices are in-corporated into the business. 
    Supports cultural improvements and programs that are sustainable and employee  engagement driven. 
    Be responsible for HR increasing efficiency and effectiveness. 
    Plans, schedules, and reviews workload and manpower to make sure targets are being met  on a cost-effective basis 
    Ensures the production team has enough time to manufacture and deliver products based  on the client’s requests 
    Manages staff selection, performance and development, to ensure team competencies and  capabilities to reach the business goals and expectations. 
     Oversee Purchases of materials and services required for production 
    Helps in Follow up on interruptions to the order 
    Collect, analyze, summarize, record and communicate economic, social, commercial, legal  and technology information to others, and timely report to the MD. 
    Prepare the best legal and administrative environment support for the production to be  carried-out smoothly. 
     Keep confidential documents and property of the Company. 
    Ensure legal works; protect legal benefit for the company, and keep as archives legal  documents of the Company. 
    In charge of receiving and sending official documents and records 
     Ensure good control over dispatch and store departments 
    Manages the growth and success of the team and the business 
    Control expenditures. 
    Directly supervise, Deputy Operations Team Leaders, HR, Factory Managers, Production  and Stores Supervisors and Dispatch section 
    Any other duty assigned. 

    Qualifications: 

    Degree/Diploma in HRM/Business Management/Administration/Marketing  
    At least 6 years’ experience in Operations or General Management. 
    Good knowledge and understanding of sales, administration and overall operations  management. 
    Age: 38 years and above 

    Deadline: 2022-05-02 

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  • Sales Manager

    Sales Manager

    Salary: Ksh 140,000-160,000
    Our client a Logistics and Distribution company seeks to hire Sales Manager to manage sales and distribution of all company products by optimally using the available resources in accordance with the business strategy and objectives to achieve profitable volume of sales.
    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Development and implementation of a sales and distribution strategy.
    Manage a portfolio of client accounts, maintain a database of the same and ensure continuous growth in sales, achievement of targets and cross selling product range.
    Grow and develop existing customers as well as generating new business.
    Undertake account and relationship management by being the first point of contact for customers, resolving all client queries and issues in the shortest time possible.
    Develop business plan, lead the sales pitch and negotiate the contractual agreements based on the set guidelines.
    Manage debt collection by ensuring all accounts operate within their agreed credit limits and all receivables are collected within agreed date of statement.
    Ensure successful product listing with key accounts.
    Ensure recommended retails prices are implemented on all brands.
    Oversee and ensure full compliance of all promotional items in respective outlets.
    Conduct Data analysis to get insight and trends.
    Share weekly reports and action log with the manager.
    Speedy and conclusive resolution of issues.
    To work with the Finance department to ensure all customers’ accounts are fully reconciled with appropriate credit limits and all statements are distributed on time all the time.
    Accompany, coach and mentor the sales representatives.

    JOB KNOWLEDGE/ SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE

    A minimum first degree in sales and marketing or its equivalent.
    6 years’ experience in Sales preferable in FMCG, 3 in senior management role.
    A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Accounts Management role.
    Excellent communication, written and presentation skills.
    Excellent analytical/business skills with results focused.
    Good presentation skills.
    Ability to generate reports weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually.
    Strong proficiency in the use of IT.
    Ability to cope with responsibility, flexibility and high pressure.

    Note: – Indicate position applying for as the SUBJECT EMAIL. Please apply using cvs@execafrica.comONLY Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.Execafrica Recruitment Limited does not charge any recruitment fee to candidates for interviews and job placement

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    cvs@execafrica.com

  • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – KE 

Senior Team Lead, Vendor Management

    Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – KE Senior Team Lead, Vendor Management

    Responsibilities

    Work in a hands-on, collaborative environment with top product managers and engineers to build breakthrough experiences and products that solve our users’ most critical needs
    Participate in product grooming sessions with product managers and engineers to understand product goals, features, details, etc.
    Review product specifications (including requirements, flowcharts, designs, etc.) in order to prepare test plans and test scenarios
    Manually execute test plans, scenarios, and cases to ensure the customer experience matches defined product specs
    File clear and concise bug tickets to help engineers fix product defects and issues
    Play a critical role in all releases by conducting regression and smoke tests in Staging and Production environments
    Verify critical production issues as neededInvolve in on-call rotations to support the production issues.
    Be involved in the Scrum process, including stand-ups and related activities
    Test established products as well as new product solutions for new business lines

    Requirements

    Minimum 6+ years of experience in test tools and frameworks using Java/ Scala, Jenkins or similar CI-CD tools, Shell Scripting, Linux/ Mac OSX for either backend or frontend services
    Experience as a quality assurance analyst, software tester, or functional tester conducting manual testing of web and mobile products
    Experience in writing comprehensive test cases aligned with product requirementsAbility to understand the user’s mindset and how they might use the product
    Strong communication skills with all audiences
    Extreme attention to detailAbility to manage and prioritise multiple, diverse testing activities simultaneously
    Experience with Agile software development methodology using scrum, sprints, and JIRA
    Working knowledge of technical concepts including programming, logic, databases, SQL queries, data distributed across multiple systems, etc.
    Familiarity with third-party API concepts and integration
    Self-starter with the ability to take direction and work in a collaborative environment
    Comfort working in a remote environment
    Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team working in different timezones
    Preferred BS Degree in Computer Science and/or Math or equivalent skills

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  • Senior DevOps Engineer

    Senior DevOps Engineer

    What You’ll Do

    Build and deploy monitoring and alerting systems across Tala’s entire infrastructure
    Complete migration to CI/CD deployment model
    Support and collaborate with cross functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
    Support integration projects with 3rd party services (Payment Rails, SMS/Email, KYC, Analytics, etc.)
    Build, maintain, and own InfoSec compliance efforts by implementing and enforcing appropriate processes and standards across the organisation
    Maintain, review, propose and implement improvements to existing infrastructure, tools and processes

    What You’ll Need

    6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps processes and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, PagerDuty, NewRelic, Splunk, Chef, Puppet)
    Demonstrated ability for building, automating and scaling production level environments with high availability, reliability, security and throughput
    Expert knowledge in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, ElasticCache, VPC, VPN, EMR, CloudDeploy, Kinesis, Redshift)
    Preferred BS Degree in Computer Science and/or Math or equivalent skills
    Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team

    Apply via :

    jobs.lever.co