Director, Technology and Business Development at an IT Company - Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

GVA Partners - Our client, an IT Company in Lagos, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director, Technology and Business Development

Location: Lagos
Job Type: 10 Months Contract

Job Description

• A customer facing role focused on the company’s top line. It is strategic, visionary and entails defining the company’s enterprise technology strategy and direction
• The role develops and manages business practices that reflect the enterprise technology landscape.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction across the entire technology function.
• Work with various business areas to drive innovation, strategic positioning and support business development activities with technical support in product concept development and customer relations.
• Share knowledge, expertise and experience by ensuring synergy across the entire Technology function.
• Recommend, develop, integrate, administer and evaluate policies, procedures, and standards needed to provide flexible and cost-effective IT services – products and solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Assess new and emerging technologies to determine applicability and act as advisor to the CEO on technology investments and initiatives.
• Provide technology direction for customers and the company
• Search out alliances and partnerships that help the company adopt and build new technology practices

Educational Qualification

• First Degree in Physical or Numerate Science, Engineering or other related fields.

Experience:

• 8 - 10 years’ experience working as a Technology and Business Development Director.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Excellent presentation, networking and written and verbal communication skills
• Leadershiprole and candidate would have transitioned from professional competence to leadership competence.
• Capacity Product/Business development
• Capacity to lead the company over time
• Technology or/Business Background

Application Closing Date
20th September, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV's in MS Word format and Cover Letters to: contact@gvapartners.com and reference recruitment@gvapartners.com with "Director of Technology and Business Development" as the subject of the email.