Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Driving the strategic direction of the division, and ensuring all business activities align accordingly.
- Overseeing all daily business and operational activities, and ensuring consistency with overall goals and strategy.
- Developing high-level sales and business development strategies, and driving responsible teams to ensure targets are met or exceeded.
- Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, negotiating and closing business deals.
- Monitoring and enforcing adherence to in-house and industry policies, guidelines and standards.
- Developing and driving company culture, values and behaviour whilst creating and promoting an enabling environment for high performance as well as positive morale.
- Building trust relations, alliances and partnerships with industry partners and stakeholders, and acting as company’s primary spokesperson and point of contact.
- Coordinating with other departments within the company, such as operations, sales, marketing, and finance, to ensure smooth operations.
- Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer to keep him abreast of the division activities.
Qualification and Experience Required:
- 10+ years’ leadership experience within the power/energy industry with extensive demonstrable experience in Business Development.
- Minimum Bachelors’ Degree (or equivalent).
- Masters’ in Business Administration will be an added advantage.
- Strong inter-personal and people-oriented management skills with experience in leading and motivating multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong problem solving and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced quickly changing environment.
- Substantial experience in working closely with all regulatory bodies and stakeholders.
- Budgetary management experience with commercial acumen.
- Proactive and innovative attitude.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to travel within Nigeria.