Westfield Consulting Limited - Founded in January 2012, by a team of forward thinking Nigerians with over 40 years of cumulative work experience in management and consultancy, Westfield Consulting is a provider of Human Resource and Strategic Management Services. Our innovativeness and excellence in service delivery has made us a first choice to our growing clientele in various sectors.
We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Business Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Develop goals and objectives that tend to growth and prosperity
- Design and implement business plans and strategies to promote the attainment of goals
- Ensure that the company has the adequate and suitable resources to complete its activities (e.g. people, material, equipment etc.)
- Organize and coordinate operations in ways that ensure maximum productivity
- Supervise the work of employees and provide feedback and counsel to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Maintain relationships with partners/vendors/suppliers
- Gather, analyze and interpret external and internal data and write reports
- Identifies trendsetter ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements; tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments.
- Locates or proposes potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring opportunities.
- Screens potential business deals by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financials; evaluating options; resolving internal priorities; recommending equity investments.
- Develops negotiating strategies and positions by studying integration of new venture with company strategies and operations; examining risks and potentials; estimating partners' needs and goals.
- Closes new business deals by coordinating requirements; developing and negotiating contracts; integrating contract requirements with business operations.
- Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Assess overall company performance against objectives
- Represent the company in events, conferences etc.
- Ensure adherence to legal rules and guidelines
- Maintain regular contact with subordinates to ensure smooth operations and compliance with industry standard, customs regulations and other required regulations / laws.
- Provide leadership in strategic business planning & implementation for the entire Oil & Gas division in line with the strategy of the group company.
- Liaise with HR to identify the gaps/needs of the team to improve capabilities and performance.
- Explore all possible opportunities such as seminars, conferences to increase and build a larger network and new opportunities for the company.
- Continually contribute to the success of the company by highlighting opportunities within the market and industry. This will include contributing to the sales/business development of the entire division.
- Manage the entire team towards achieving their set goals and targets
Minimum Qualifications
- B.Sc. or HND (2.2 and equilavent in HND)
- 3 years minimum experience in relevant industry.
Requirements and Skills:
- Robust Knowledge of the Logistics industry
- Proven experience as business manager or relevant role
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
- Thorough understanding of diverse business processes and strategy development
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, databases and information systems
- Good understanding of research methods and data analysis techniques
- Develop and execute short and long term strategies to meet the corporate revenue and profit objectives.
- Plan and forecast operational requirements for the Oil & Gas division.
- Conceptualize and develop commercially viable solutions that may be offered as advisory and/or executed services to clients in the industry.
- Develop and manage the sales pipeline of the business to ensure goals set are achieved.
- Supervise and provide leadership to the team in line with the company’s corporate values.
- Establish and monitor progress against key performance indicators for the business units
Application Closing Date
17th February, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to:
[email protected]