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Chief Executive Officer
About this role
Proten is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to provide strategic and operational leadership, drive growth, improve financial performance, and oversee organisational effectiveness. The role targets a telecommunications executive who can build high-value partnerships, secure major contracts, and guide national expansion with potential regional market entry. The CEO will work with executive teams and the board to translate strategy into plans, manage budgets, and report on performance. The position involves overseeing compliance, governance, and risk, while developing a high-performing leadership team and engaging with investors and key stakeholders. Proten operates as an international human capital development firm offering training, coaching, and consulting across Europe and Africa, with offices in London and Lagos.
What you would do
- Translate board strategy into actionable plans, budgets, and targets.
- Lead growth and scale operations for national expansion and regional entry.
- Build and maintain relationships with executives, government officials, large enterprises, and partners.
- Identify, negotiate, and secure high-value contracts and partnerships.
- Drive revenue, profitability, cash flow, and cost management.
- Collaborate with the CTO to align technology investments with commercial goals.
- Work with the CCO on sales, pipeline governance, and market execution.
- Ensure regulatory, contractual, data protection, health and safety, and governance compliance.
- Build and develop a high-performing executive team with clear accountability.
- Coordinate engagement with investors, lenders, and strategic partners with credible plans and forecasts.
What they are asking for
- Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Telecommunications, Economics or related field.
- MBA or relevant executive education is an added advantage.
- Minimum 19 years of relevant industry experience, with senior leadership in telecommunications, ISP, broadband, carrier services or enterprise connectivity.
- Experience leading a business unit or major commercial/operational function with accountable results.
- Strong executive relationships across enterprise, public sector, carrier, infrastructure and technology ecosystems with demonstrable opportunities or partnerships.
- Proven ability to negotiate complex high-value commercial agreements with senior stakeholders.
- Strong financial acumen, strategic planning, operations, governance and risk management.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making and stakeholder-management skills.
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