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Agriculture and Agro-Allied Project Lead (Remote)
About this role
The role is for an Agriculture and Agro-Allied Project Lead working remotely in Lagos, employed full-time by Prestigious Consulting Group. It focuses on driving development, execution, and commercialisation of agribusiness, agro-processing, and agricultural manufacturing projects, with responsibilities spanning feasibility through to implementation and commercial operations. The candidate should have practical agro-allied project experience, strong financial analysis, commercial strategy, and project management capabilities. The employer provides HR consulting services and focuses on improving organisational performance through people and process management. The position requires managing investor relations, partnerships, and funding opportunities to support project delivery.
What you would do
- Prepare management reports, investment documentation, and recommendations for project decisions and expansion.
- Lead agro-allied, agricultural production, agro-processing, and manufacturing projects from concept to implementation and commercialisation.
- Develop and review feasibility studies, business cases, financial models, budgets, and investment proposals.
- Create project plans, timelines, budgets, risk assessments, and performance monitoring frameworks.
- Manage relationships with investors, financial institutions, government agencies, suppliers, customers, and other strategic stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve revenue, margins, productivity, and long-term project sustainability.
- Identify new project opportunities, investors, funding sources, offtakers, and strategic partnerships.
- Monitor project costs, milestones, operational efficiency, and commercial performance.
- Evaluate profitability, ROI, CAPEX, OPEX, and cash flow projections.
- Coordinate agricultural value chains, sourcing, processing, manufacturing, logistics, and operations.
What they are asking for
- Experience in business development, investment proposals, funding opportunities, or strategic partnerships.
- Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Engineering, Finance, Business Administration, Project Management, or related field.
- Strong project planning, leadership, negotiation, analytical and stakeholder management skills.
- Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, CFA, ICAN is an advantage.
- Practical experience in financial modelling, feasibility analysis, budgeting, cash flow projections, and commercial evaluation.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and project management tools.
- 7–10 years’ relevant experience in agribusiness, agro-processing, agricultural manufacturing, or agro-allied project development and management.
- Good understanding of agricultural value chains and project economics.
- Demonstrated experience managing or delivering agricultural or agro-processing projects.
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