Marketing & Operations Assistant at Just Food: A Portrait of Cameroon's Food-Tech Moment
Poise shared a job posting from Just Food, a Yaounde-based food processing company seeking a marketing and operations assistant. The role encompassed customer engagement, logistics, production oversight, and administrative work across both local and international markets—a snapshot of how small Cameroonian food enterprises were beginning to professionalize and scale in the early 2020s.
Position: Marketing & Operations Assistant Location: Yaounde, Cameroon Salary: Negotiable Start Date: As soon as possible Application Deadline: January 10, 2021
JOB DESCRIPTION:
As the main point of contact between Just Food and our valued customers in their different categories, the Marketing and Operations Assistant will be responsible for the following: -
- Create new Just Food sales points and follow-up all existing ones, ensuring the visibility and availability of all company products and marketing material at sales points. - Contribute to the design and production of all Just Food promotional and educational material. - Provide ace customer service online and offline, respond to enquiries with outstanding tact and professionalism. - Actively engage Just Food’s online and offline community with educational content, run communication campaigns and promotions. - Contribute to the maintenance of Just Food as a luxury and healthy convenience brand. - Represent Just Food at all events as required. - Follow up the payment of all relevant fiscal dues of the company. - Ensure that all deliveries in Yaounde are done. Package and dispatch consignments to the UK, USA, Canada, Dubai, Douala and other destinations as the need maybe. Also follow up to ensure the products are received on time at their destination. - Purchase all material for production and keep stock of sales and production material. - Oversee production as the need arises. - Do weekly and monthly plans of work, income\expenditure statement and one-pager sales\activity reports - Carryout administrative work and other tasks as requested by management.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- A self-starter with at least an HND in Marketing, business, Communication or related fields. - Computer literate – skilled and confident user in office applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and email; familiarity with relevant information technology, including Facebook, Instagram and website content management. - Excellent written and oral communication skills. - Full proficiency in written and spoken English. Spoken French is a must. - Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and adapt to new environments.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
Interested candidates should email a CV and cover letter to info@justfood101.com
ABOUT JUST FOOD:
We are a small, low-cost food processing company in Yaounde on a mission to transform tedious-to-cook African food to convenient and healthy ready-to-cook products. Our food is our identity, we are proud of its ability to improve our health and wellbeing. Just Food is comprised of a small team of passionate, committed, neat and jovial people, braving all the odds to set a new trend on convenient traditional food in Cameroon.
We are looking for a committed person with integrity to join the team as the Marketing and Operations Assistant. Do you think you want to be part of this trend-setting crew?
EMPLOYER CONTACT:
Phone : (+237) 673675450 WhatsApp : (+237)677075590 E-mail : info@justfood101.com Like us on Facebook Just Food Follow us on twitter @JustFood101
In early 2021, Cameroon's small and medium enterprise sector was navigating digital transformation and formalization, with local food businesses increasingly repositioning traditional products as convenience goods for urban consumers and diaspora markets. Just Food's posting reflects this moment: a company trying to brand and distribute local food as a modern, health-conscious product, reaching customers in the UK, USA, Canada, and Dubai alongside local Yaounde operations.
The posting documents a quiet economic transition—not flashy, but real. It shows how Cameroonian entrepreneurs were encoding tradition (African food) into modern business structures (digital marketing, international logistics, professional HR). The role's sprawl (from social media to fiscal compliance to packaging) also reveals the stretched reality of startup life in Yaounde, where one person often carries the weight of several formal departments. The piece remains valuable as evidence of how local ambition organized itself at that time.