Chief Commercial Director at Globacom Limited

Globacom Limited is Nigeria’s Second National Operator with licence covering GSM, Fixed, Broadband, Gateway services and an international high capacity submarine cable business, known as Glo 1. Apart from its over twenty-five million GSM subscribers in Nigeria, Globacom’s subsidiaries, Glomobile, in Republic of Benin and Ghana are also growing fast. It has acquired licences for Glo 1 in some other West African countries.

In its quest to further strengthen its operations and consolidate its position as a market leader, the Company desires to recruit highly competent, talented and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position in the Company:

Job Title: Chief Commercial Director

Ref: CCD
Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Developing and driving segments of the Company’s long and short term revenue growth strategies.
• Continuously seeking market opportunities, conditions and associated business developments.
• Providing strategic direction and partnering with 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 teams to achieve set targets.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Engineering or any other related field.
• An MBA or other post-graduate professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Strong analytical, commercial, sales and negotiation skills.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Minimum of 20 years significant commercial experience, preferably from FMCG, Banking or Telecommunications sectors, or from other blue chip companies, ten (10) of which must have been spent in very senior executive management roles.
• Proven successful track record of delivering growth.
• Proven experience in managing a fast growing and successful business.
• People management experience, including proven ability to identify and develop talents

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

Application Closing Date
10th February, 2014

Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should email their resume quoting the corresponding reference number as the subject of the email messages. CVs (to be prepared as Microsoft Word documents and saved with candidate’s full names) should state contact telephone numbers, e-mail address, include a scanned passport-sized photograph and be sent to us at: [email protected]
All applications will be treated in confidence and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted