Job Openings at BURN

About the role:

Burn is looking for a full-stack software developer, with good data-base engineering knowledge, to build reporting and payment processing apps for its pay-as-you-go products. The role will also involve maintaining and improving current software solutions implemented.

Responsibilities:

1. Integrate different payment processing (e.g. MPESA APIs) into the system.
2. Design and test UI/UX with target customers.
3. You will be the primary software engineer leading this platform, so while teamwork is crucial to ensure the system is the right fit, you will work independently in terms of coding and troubleshooting. The team will be growing on a need base.
4. Manage communication with software contractors and partners.
5. Work with Burn Engineering team to interface hardware products with software support to achieve Burn’s business logic.
6. Build and maintain AWS based solutions
7. Carefully document any development work with class diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, flowcharts and activity diagrams.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, or similar, or extensive work experience and portfolio.
2. 3+ years of software development experience
3. Experience with AWS and ability to implement solutions using AWS services. (e.g AWS IOT core)
4. Knowledge and experience of systems development process.
5. Ability to work in a team setting, but without many other software engineers
6. Effective verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills, in English.
7. Communicate effectively in a team setting.
8. Work quickly, reliably, and meet deadlines.

Commitment to BURN’s mission to be a social enterprise and a leader in providing high quality, affordable, clean energy products to East African families.

It would be great if, in addition, you have:

1. Experience with designing pay-as-you-go platforms and integrating with mobile money payment aggregators and providers.
2. Experience with creating data warehouses and designing databases.

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About the role:

BURN is looking for an accountant who will be responsible for preparing accounts and managing financial information. You will be required to prepare and examine financial records, assuring information is up to date and accurate as well as accounting or taxation or focus on more specific areas of the company's financial department. The individual will be required be a French speaker so as to communicate with French speaking clients.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Enter all financial transaction details into accounting system on real time basis for both local and foreign entities.
2. Supplier Management.
3. Assist with implementing and maintaining internal financial controls and procedures.
4. Assist with preparation and coordination of the audit process.
5. Reconciliation.
6. Statutory filing.
7. Prepare supplier payments.
8. Identify and address discrepancies on purchase invoices and receipts shared.
9. Ensure all supporting documentation (including tax compliant invoices) is available and filed correctly.
10. Customer invoicing.
11. Accounts Receivable - Preparing, verifying and sending customer statements for both local and the export markets.
12. Submitting financial reports on a timely basis.
13. Updating and keeping all settings up to date in ERP/accounting system.
14. Any other tasks as requested by line manager and/or senior management

Requirements

1. Experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is desirable.
2. At least 3 years’ experience in a business environment preferably manufacturing industry.
3. Must be French speaking

Education Background

1. Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
2. CPA finalist.

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Job description

BURN is looking for a creative and experienced Communications and Marketing Specialist for its new electric cooking products. The primary role for the successful candidate will be to direct, create and execute multi-channel social media campaigns. They will ensure that all content is on brand and meets communications goals. They will search out and develop relationships with relevant social media influencers and leaders. They will identify up and coming platforms and features to distribute content through. In addition to creating content for our user groups, the Communications and Marketing Specialist will play a key role in developing communications directly with individual customers to ensure their individual success. The content created will be designed to meet specific goal from across the business such as marketing, research, after sales, and product design.

BURN has been developing, testing, and bringing to market new cooking products for 10+ years in Kenya. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a growing organization and contribute to a fast-moving company committed to improving economic, environmental, and social outcomes in East Africa.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Direct the creation of professional content across multiple social media channels including but not limited to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
2. Search our new opportunities to collaborate with other social media influencers.
3. Daily management and publishing of content and copy.
4. Contribute to the design and creation of customer communication strategies.
5. Proactively collaborate with various groups within BURN establish communication goals.
6. Create, edit, and publish video content for social media channels.
7. Write and create copy for digital and print marketing campaigns in Swahili and English.
8. Stay up to date with current trends for our target customer.
9. Measure traffic and interpret usage data.

Skills and Experience

1. Understand media habits in Kenyans.
2. 3-5 years’ experience creating, publishing professional social media content.
3. Demonstrated success managing multi-channel social media content.
4. Experience with social media management tools.
5. Experience using CRM or CMS systems a plus.
6. Proficient at creating, editing and publishing video content for social media and the web.
7. You use a data driven approach to direct the content you create.
8. Proficient creating content with Adobe creative suite and video editing tools.
9. Experience cooking local foods on traditional fuels is a plus.
10. Strong organizational skill.
11. Fluent in English and Swahili.

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About the role

BURN is looking to hire a QMS Coordinator to design and execute Quality Management Systems in line with applicable standards and regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will ensure that all necessary systems and procedures are in place to satisfy all customer requirements and audits.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Organize, track, and maintain information concerning the various aspects of the Quality Management System (QMS).
2. Lead all activities related document control including assigning document numbers, uploading documents on the intranet, acquiring customer and industry standards, record retention and maintaining master log for all documents.
3. Create, update, and/or review QMS related documents, in collaboration with process owners.
4. Assist in managing the Corrective and Preventive Action process by issuing and developing corrective actions in coordination with the process owners, prepare audit reports, follow up on corrective action plans, and perform closeout activities.
5. Assist Quality manager in maintaining the quality system.
6. Be a key member of the internal audit team; organize internal and external audits for QMS.
7. Ensure documentation of the QMS programs is organized and retrievable.
8. Ensure that all necessary systems and procedures are in place to satisfy all customer requirements and audits.
9. Provide full review, assessment and reporting on management systems compliance to quality.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

1. Undergraduate degree or equivalent.
2. 2-3 years of work experience in QMS audits or experience in managing and maintaining quality management system in manufacturing environment.
3. Quality Auditor or Six Sigma, preferred.
4. Ability to coordinate efficiently to plan, execute audits and follow-ups.
5. Working knowledge of QMS document systems and control practices.
6. Excellent problem solving, presentation, and communication skills.
7. Ability to work independently or in teams. 
8. Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015

Education & Experience Required:

1. Undergraduate degree or equivalent.
2. 2-3 years of work experience in QMS audits or experience in managing and maintaining quality management system in manufacturing environment
3. Quality Auditor or Six Sigma, preferred.

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About the role

BURN is looking to hire a highly analytical Senior Market Research Officer. The ideal candidate will be expected to be involved in the leadership and management of the market research objectives and efforts for the organization. They will help improve on existing policies and practices for gathering research on market conditions, competitors, and consumer trends. Being the senior most research officer, they will spearhead the designing, planning, collection, analysis and presentation of data and research outcome to commercial, research and development, and management teams.

The successful candidate will also manage subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs and ensure that project /department milestones/goals are met and adheres to approved budgets.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Advise and oversee the execution of the best methodologies, techniques, and approaches to acquire required data for decision making in the most cost and time efficient way.
2. Take leadership in managing the entire research process from need assessment to study planning, to data acquisition to production of reports that clearly and compellingly summarize results, draws insights, and helps make data-driven decisions.
3. Spearhead the preparation and execution of field activities including focus groups, field surveys, in-person interviews, home visits, remote surveys et al.
4. Lead in evaluations of projects and studies e.g., evaluate the nature and condition of projects and make useful suggestions to management and market research team on best practices and strategies to apply in future project execution.
5. Work closely with other managers of internal customer departments and play a leading role in relaying user feedback to these departments including new product development, commercial, expansion, carbon et al.
6. Provide thought leadership in addressing emerging challenges, developing the team skills and continuously improving the input and outcome of the department.

Skills and Experience

1. 3-5 years strong background in a busy research environment supporting NPD & Commercial teams.
2. Wide knowledge and experience in planning and executing quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in all stages of product life cycle from product ideation to commercialization.       
3. Strong data handling skills using contemporary tools (MS 365, R, SPSS, Excel).
4. Great organizational, communication and presentation skills.
5. Ability to work collaboratively in an informal, collegial environment.

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About the role

BURN is looking for a Head of Strategy to work closely with the company’s Chief Executive Officer to flesh out the short and long-term goals and make sure the company’s output falls in line with those goals.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Collaborates with senior management to devise effective short and long-term plans.
2. Carry out initial research, project design, and thought partnership with the CEO.
3. Reviews and analyses the success of products, projects, and activities and discovers ways to increase revenue by eliminating wasteful practices and expediting product delivery.
4. Leads and supports management in the application and implementation of new policies and procedures.
5. Develops new business opportunities by leveraging contacts, pursuing new product development, and improving project efficiency.
6. Support SMT with decision-making by leveraging the Internal Market Intelligence Team as a resource to assist in budgeting, resourcing decisions, and change management.

 
Skills and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in Management, business Administration, Finance, or Marketing required.
2. Master of Business Administration recommended.
3. Must have at least 10 years of experience in strategic planning, business management, corporate leadership, and financial decision-making.
4. Must have demonstrated proficiency in analytical research, leadership, and strategic planning.
5. Must possess exceptional creativity and problem-solving skills.
6. Must have a strong working knowledge of management strategies, financial accounting, human resource planning, customer relations, and the implementation of new technologies.
7. Must be familiar with fundraising and increasing revenue while maintaining a comprehensive and cohesive brand or identity.
8. Must be comfortable with public speaking and communicating both verbally and in writing.
9. Must be able to multitask with research projects, data analysis, coordination with the executive team, and acting as the public face of the company in the absence of the company’s CEO.
10. Must be willing to challenge standard thinking with new ideas, new approaches, and new solutions.
11. Must have strong decision-making skills and the determination to see projects through to the end.
12. Demonstrated skills in leadership, management, and collaboration.
13. Must be self-directed and able to work independently.
     

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About the role

BURN is looking for a Duty Remission Officer to lead in duty remission reconciliation per applicable laws and regulations. The successful candidate will work closely with the Supply Chain Manager and will be well versed with Custom systems procedures, import and export documentation, logistics and operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Prepare an annual plan for duty remission based on sales forecast.
2. Update and maintain a log of raw material utilization as per exports done.
3. Maintain a log of actual exports based on quantities on export entries.
4. Ensure proper record keeping of all related documents including Duty Remission, inbound items, clearing documentation from KRA.
5. Prepare bonds for submission and approval by the insurance company.
6. Ensure approved bonds are lodged by KRA and bond numbers issued.
7. Arrange for collection of original bond documents from KRA and submit to clearing agent for lodging of import entries.
8. Maintain filing system for Duty Remission and VAT exemption documents as required by law (C56/60, Bonds, Import entries, Export Entries, C17 tracker).
9. Share weekly report on duty remissions applied/approved vs all material imports received.
10. Update and maintain a tracker/log for all approved duty remission schemes and reconciliations.
11. Lead in duty remission reconciliation and avail all supporting documents for presentation to KRA.
12. Follow up with insurance companies for a refund of premiums paid for duty remission (and VAT Exemption where need be).
13. Any other jobs assigned by your supervisor.

Skills and Experience

Essential

1. Diploma Level or higher in a Procurement or Logistics Discipline.
2. Strong Excel Skills.
3. Experience in Customs system and procedures.
4. Experience in handling import and export documentation.
5. Experience in handling Duty Remission applications and reconciliation.

Desired

1. 3 years’ experience in Logistics and Operations.
2. Experience in ERP systems – preferably Microsoft NAV.
3. Detail Orientated and highly organized.

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About the Role

BURN is looking for a Digital Marketing Manager to develop, implement, track and optimize our digital marketing campaigns across all digital channels. You should have a strong grasp of current marketing tools and strategies and be able to lead integrated digital marketing campaigns from concept to execution. Digital marketing managers will work with the marketing team, product managers, and other teams to launch campaigns on time and on budget.

Role & Responsibilities

1. Plan and execute all digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
2. Design, build and maintain our social media presence
3. Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
4. Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
5. Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies
6. Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests
7. Collaborate with internal teams to create landing pages and optimize user experience
8. Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touchpoints
9. Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnels
10. Collaborate and manage any vendor partners
11. Evaluate emerging technologies. Provide thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate

Skills & Experience

1. BS/MS degree in marketing or a related field
2. Proven working experience in digital marketing
3. Demonstrable experience leading and managing SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and/or display advertising campaigns
4. Highly creative with experience in identifying target audiences and devising digital campaigns that engage, inform, and motivate
5. Excellent written skills are required for this role
6. Experience in optimizing landing pages and user funnels
7. Solid knowledge of website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics)
8. Experience in setting up and optimizing Google Adwords campaigns
9. Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development and constraints
10. Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking
11. Up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in online marketing and measurement

KPIs

1. Web Traffic Sources
2. Leads
3. Page Views
4. Cost per Lead
5. Returning Visitors
6. Conversion Rate
7. Goal Completion Rate
8. Click-Through Rate
9. Customer Acquisition Cost
10. Customer Lifetime Value

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Job description

BURN is looking for a Sales and Data coordinator who will play a critical role in supporting the field sales and activation teams, achieve their KPIs in sales, POS recruitment, account receivables, journey plan adherence, route accompaniment, and seamless on-ground activations. They will also be the focal point in gathering, processing, and tabulating all field data and ensuring that daily, weekly and monthly qualitative and quantitative data is available in time and in full for effective decision making.

 Duties and Responsibilities

1. Conduit and collaborate with other departments i.e., Production, finance, IT, logistics, and marketing.
2. Gathering, processing, tabulating, field data, and ensuring field teams’ actions are data-driven.
3. Availing daily, weekly, and monthly time reports maintaining all field records including an updated customers’ master database.
4. Supporting the sales team to improve their productivity by ensuring the team has all their selling and activation tools available.
5. Manage and monitor Field Sales Automation System (Echo Agent), ensuring it is stable and efficiently reporting as required.
6. Handling orders by phone, email and checking correct prices, discounts, and product mandatories. Ensuring they are processed according to customer requirements and informing the respective team members on an order’s status and ensuring they are delivered on time.
7. Liaise closely with Business Intelligence to ensure correct data collection.
8. Lead in sales data analysis, highlighting key trends and insights.
9. Consistently following up on actions arising from key trends and insights for continuous tracking.

  Education and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Business Administration or a related field.
2. 2 or more years’ experience in sales or working in sales support.
3. Experience as a sales Coordinator or in administration will be an added advantage.
4. Good team development and leadership skills
5. Computer Literacy.
6. Good administrative, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
7. Excellent communication, sales, and customer service skills.
8. Ability to multi-task, work in a fast-paced environment, and meet deadlines.

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About Role

BURN is looking for a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) consultant who will assist in reviewing, improving, and formalizing the existing SOPs. The consultant will be responsible for executing activities related to procedural document development including any relevant training materials that support the SOP documents.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Review of current SOP documents for understanding and assessing needs for additional SOPs based on understanding
2. Interview/discussions with department managers to understand the operating environment and existing SOPs
3. Update and refine any of the existing SOPs identified
4. Develop an SOP handbook that formalizes the SOPs and workflows in each department and/or operating market
5. Develop training materials as needed to instruct employees on SOPs
6. Develop and maintain a project management tracker that summarizes progress in each department/workstream that is regularly reported to management
7. Develop checklists and/or templates that improve the efficiency of processes as identified

Education and Experience

1. 5+ years’ experience in audit or relevant field developing SOPs
2. Must have written and developed SOPs
3. Experience in the manufacturing sector is preferred
4. Good communication and project management skills

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Job description

Burn is looking for an East Africa Regional controller who will be responsible for coordinating and monitoring the company’s financial and accounting activities in East Africa. The individual will be tasked with keeping track of financial reports, performing accounting tasks, monitoring inventory, and communicating with department heads.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Plan and conduct audits to ensure compliance with company policies and SOPs.
2. Participate in the development and implementation of internal audit policies and procedures in compliance with Internal Auditing Standards and in accordance with local and international best practices.
3. Review monthly sales reports ensuring accurate recording in the ERP system.
4. Observe and ensure that proper periodical inventory counts are executed across all warehouses and reconciliations are done between system records and physical count values.
5. Identify loopholes and recommend risk aversion measures and cost savings.
6. Conduct ad hoc audits and investigations into identified or reported risks.
7. Complete audit work papers by documenting audit tests and findings.
8. Prepare reports on areas audited ensuring complete, accurate, and timely audit information is reported to management.
9.  Any other tasks as requested by line manager and/or senior management.

Requirements

1. At least 2 years experience in audit preferably manufacturing industry.
2. High attention to detail and excellent analytical skills.
3. Ability to manipulate large amounts of data and compile it into detailed reports.
4. Experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is desirable.
5. Fluency in reading and speaking English.

Education Background

1. Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
2. CPA finalist.

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Job description

Burn is looking for a Quality Inspector who will be responsible for reviewing products and materials during manufacturing to make sure they meet company requirements. This individual will be tasked with measuring objects compared to their intended physical specifications, running quality tests, and identifying defects.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Manage and control quality as well as production volumes
2. Check, Inspect and analyze Products against specification sheets
3. Measure and record quality within the production floor
4. Perform tests to ensure the quality of products
5. Collect and record data on the production floor
6. Work with the quality analysts in spec sheet development and improvement
7. Write a daily quality report
8. Ensure quality standards process are followed keenly
9. Escalate issues on the production floor to shift team leader.
10. Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Quality Lead from time to time

Education and Experience

1. At least 2 years experience as a quality inspector
2. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
3. Attention to detail
4. Technical skills and ability to understand blueprints, documents, and manuals
5. Thorough knowledge of quality control standards and testing methodologies