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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.

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

• 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

• 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.

Information on Submitting your Application

Deadline for submission: Thursday,5th January 2012

How to Apply:

Email your covering letter and CV/Resume to:

1. jobs@applianceworld.co.ug

2. Go to www.JobsUg.com and apply through the website.

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.