Ongoing recruitment in a Digital Payment Services Bank

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Ref. Code: BDM
Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Advising on the Company’s potential long and short term growth strategies.
• Continuously seeking market opportunities, conditions and associated business developments.
• Managing, directing and motivating the company’s sales and marketing teams to achieve set targets.

Specific responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Developing and driving the Company’s long and short term revenue growth strategies, profits and increasing Shareholder returns.
• Continuously seeking market opportunities, conditions and associated business developments.
• Providing strategic direction and partnering with the Sales Directors for the overall operations of various sales units to achieve the Organisation’s business plans.
• Leading commercial business performance management and decisions support.
• Empowering and motivating sales team to achieve set targets.
• Assisting in embedding a commercial, customer-focused approach to all business processes and activities.

Qualification & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Social Sciences or any other relevant field (however, equivalent qualification and relevant experience can override this).
• Relevant Post-graduate qualification will be an added advantage.
• Strong analytical, leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to handle the pressure of working in a dynamic and result oriented environment.
• Strong Selling, Presentation and Negotiation skills.
• Experience in establishing and building strong collaborative business partnerships with Partners.
• Strong strategic orientation, leadership, interpersonal, critical-thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to carry them along in driving marketing initiative.

Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years significant hands-on marketing, sales and / or commercial experience, particularly in marketing and sales through various channels, and preferably from the FMCG industry, five (5) of which must have been spent in a senior management role.
• Experience in FMCG marketing (through Channels), sales or technical planning / operations
• People management experience, including proven ability to identify and develop talents

Job Title: Advertising Manager

Ref. Code: AM
Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Understand, develop and communicate the company’s Brand and Advertising Strategy, as well as the Annual Supporting Operating Plan.
• Supervise advertising, promotional and creative campaigns to promote the company’s brand, Products and Services.
• Develop strong partnerships with relevant Parties: internally with Marketing and Sales, and externally with Production Houses and Advertising Agencies.
• Present, on regular basis, the integrated marketing communications plans, strategies, tactics and progress reports to the Board and Management, as well as insights into activities of competition.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, Marketing, Business Administration, Social Sciences or any other related field. An MBA will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication, organisational and writing skills
• Strong Presentation, Negotiation and Computer skills.
• Sound knowledge of marketing and promotional channels in local markets.
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to carry them along in driving marketing communications initiatives.
• Hands-on experience in managing the total Advertising / PR functions for a major FMCG, Consumer Durable, Financial Institution, Telecom or Parastatal body.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies (NIPR, NUJ, AAAN, APCON, etc).
• Above 40 years of age with minimum of 15 years of cognate relevant experience, at least 5 of which must be at senior management position in top Advertising / PR Agencies, FMCG, Telecommunications, Banking etc.

Job Title: Commercial / Management Director

Ref. Code: CMD
Location: Nigeria

Job Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Social Sciences, Engineering or any other related field. An MBA or other relevant post graduate qualifications will be an added advantage.
• Excellent Leadership, Communication and Organisational skills.
• Strong Presentation and Negotiation skills.
• Experience in establishing and building strong collaborative business partnerships with Partners.
• Strong strategic orientation, leadership, interpersonal, critical-thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Sound knowledge of marketing and promotional channels in local and international markets
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to carry them along in driving marketing initiative
• People management experience including proven ability to identify and develop talents
• Above 45 years of age with minimum of 20 years of cognate relevant experience, at least 10 years of which must be senior management position in a blue chip company preferably in FMCG, Telecommunication, Banking etc.

Remuneration
Very attractive and competitive remuneration packages and challenging prospects await the successful candidate

Job Title: Advertising Manager

Ref. Code: AM
Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Understand, develop and communicate the company’s Brand and Advertising Strategy, as well as the Annual Supporting Operating Plan.
• Supervise advertising, promotional and creative campaigns to promote the company’s brand, Products and Services.
• Develop strong partnerships with relevant Parties: internally with Marketing and Sales, and externally with Production Houses and Advertising Agencies.
• Present, on regular basis, the integrated marketing communications plans, strategies, tactics and progress reports to the Board and Management, as well as insights into activities of competition.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, Marketing, Business Administration, Social Sciences or any other related field. An MBA will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication, organisational and writing skills
• Strong Presentation, Negotiation and Computer skills.
• Sound knowledge of marketing and promotional channels in local markets.
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to carry them along in driving marketing communications initiatives.
• Hands-on experience in managing the total Advertising / PR functions for a major FMCG, Consumer Durable, Financial Institution, Telecom or Parastatal body.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies (NIPR, NUJ, AAAN, APCON, etc).
• Above 40 years of age with minimum of 15 years of cognate relevant experience, at least 5 of which must be at senior management position in top Advertising / PR Agencies, FMCG, Telecommunications, Banking etc.

Job Title: Public Relations Manager

Ref. Code: PRM
Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• The candidate will be instrumental in proactively building, nurturing and enhancing the reputation of the company / brand at a local, continental and global level.
• The role demands cultivating a robust relationship with internal as well as external stakeholders, at all the 3 levels mentioned above, and leveraging significant category / media opportunities to show case the company / brand in order to build and reinforce its stature.
• The candidate will provide strategic leadership as well as operational guidance to an internal team of well- seasoned PR professionals / consultants as well as reputed PR agencies engaged by the company.
• The objective will be to provide ongoing PR support for the various company / brand initiatives and offerings on a holistic basis, in print / electronic and social media, so as to dominate the media space, endear the brand to its various public, build custom for it products and services and provide a ring of protection across the various geographies that it operates in.
• Conceive, develop, publish and maintain internal publications and House journals to project the company favourably across various target public
• Writing, editing, proof-reading and improving product and corporate communications materials to ensure brand consistency and appeal
• Maintaining currency in the mainstream and online media and generating new ideas to capture the fancy of diverse audience.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• A Post-Graduate Degree in Public Relations / Mass Communications / Social Sciences or any related field. An MBA will be an added advantage.
• Excellent knowledge of Public Relations and Social Media PR and working knowledge of other communication disciplines like Advertising, Promotions, Events and Sponsorship
• Must have a demonstrable track record of deploying various PR strategies to deliver superior results in addressing problems and opportunities that confront a business.
• Must have a proven record of one’s ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide array of people within the organization as well as with external public.
• Excellent Leadership, Communication and Organisational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Vast knowledge of media dynamics with very strong media contact
• Proficiency in computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook and Google packages
• Above 40 years of age with minimum of 15 years cognate relevant experience at 5 years of which must be at management level in a blue chip company preferably in FMCG
• Telecommunications, Banking, the Media, Public Service, etc.

Remuneration
Very attractive and competitive remuneration packages and challenging prospects await the successful candidate.