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:
[email protected] and reference
[email protected] with "Director of Technology and Business Development" as the subject of the email.