Country Lead Officer at Weevate

Weevate Platform is built to be the route to market for high-quality consumer products. This includes a full focus on the product from the warehouse to the distributor, sub-distributor and retailers, and our millions of daily buyers in all our geofenced POIs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Country Lead Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About the job

• We’re an Africa-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Africa. We are a delivery marketplace connecting couriers with parcels and driving deliveries using relay points.
• With us, you’ll have the job of your life while working together towards our shared vision to help people send parcels quickly and easily at a fraction of the usual cost while enjoying visibility into the parcel journey.
• We welcome top performers that will bring new ideas, diverse perspectives, and provide you with the opportunities and freedom to grow and make a real impact on millions of lives… all while having fun!
• We believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture.
• We know that the best ideas and solutions come by bringing together people from all over the world and by fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone feels heard and has the chance to make a real impact. It's because of this that we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds.

Your Work Life Opportunity:

• We're looking for someone who has a mix of operational prowess to get great work done, the Sales, negotiation and collaboration skills needed to bring out the best from our partners, the strategic, innovative and creative thinking that's required to develop outside the box solutions, and the emotional intelligence and humility required to lead a fast-paced business and inspire a team of people within your business unit.

Be a Part Of a Team Where You Will:

• Get the trust and support to grow, develop, and make a difference while encouraging you to bring your unique perspective to the table
• Collaborate together and learn from each other
• Lead your team to greatness
• Have full P&L responsibility and own business objectives
• Devise the long-term strategy for your country or region and leverage HQ resources towards your objectives
• Establish and maintain partnerships with partners on our platform
• Hire top talent, help them perform, grow and develop as professionals
• Be informed, get involved and make things happen.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Provides strategic direction to the sales and marketing team to ensure delivery of broad business objectives
• Recruits, trains, retains (through motivation and coaching) to develop high-quality staff
• Fosters a good relationship with the government and KOLs and ensures compliance with regulatory and the country’s laws.
• Oversees the financial function of the business and ensures that controls are in place to enhance accountability and alignment with business strategies.
• Provides accurate sales forecasts and manages shipments appropriately to ensure all required materials are in optimum supply.
• Oversees the shared services functions thereby ensuring smooth company operations.
• Gathers information on market trends and competitor activities to enhance strategic decision making.
• Coordinates third party operations to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives.

Requirements
You Have:

• An empathetic, inclusive and curious attitude
• A passion to make a positive impact on the life of millions of people through technology
• You're persuasive in the most pleasant possible way and have no trouble selling anything
• You've got good judgment but own up to your mistakes
• You're extremely curious and have a desire to acquire a deep understanding
• You find smart and elegant solutions to complex, multi-disciplinary problems
• You're extremely agile and thrive in ambiguous environments
• You are always respectful, kind and fair. You've managed large or multiple teams and all of your (former) reports speak highly of you as a manager and leader
• You have an ambition that makes some people think you're crazy while inspiring others
• You have prior extensive experience in the Logistics space
• We are always looking for the best candidates, so if you think you would be a good fit even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements we would love to hear from you!

What You’ll Find When Working With Us

• Gas: We work with energy, innovation and passion for what we do. We are committed.
• Stay Humble: We’re okay with making mistakes and taking feedback to learn from them.
• Ownership: We proactively get work done no matter our position and level.

Experience Our Benefits

• Enticing Compensation plan
• Online therapy and wellbeing benefit.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.