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Chief of Staff
About this role
A Chief of Staff role at HR-EX Consulting in Lagos, aimed at reducing founder dependency by translating leadership priorities into disciplined execution. The position focuses on cross-functional coordination, managing strategic initiatives, and pursuing major commercial opportunities to move initiatives from discussion to completion with minimal CEO/COO follow-up. The employer provides affordable HR services to micro, small and medium enterprises and seeks to support growth-focused small businesses. The role involves driving execution rhythms, accountability, and strategic projects across multiple departments. The candidate should bring extensive experience in strategy, transformation, or execution-heavy environments and strong financial and negotiation skills.
What you would do
- Own the company-wide execution rhythm for strategic priorities with clear owners, milestones, risks and deadlines.
- Strengthen management accountability by tracking commitments and turning decisions into action.
- Coordinate cross-functional priorities across Sales, Finance, Business Support, HR, Procurement/Inventory, Technical, Operations, Marketing and other functions.
- Prepare concise decision papers, performance dashboards and action trackers for the CEO/COO and management team.
- Challenge timelines, ownership and execution quality without replacing department heads or duplicating ownership.
- Identify and help drive major commercial opportunities, strategic accounts and enterprise-level growth initiatives.
- Lead or support complex negotiations, strategic contracts and major commercial arrangements.
- Develop and manage strategic partnerships, including manufacturer relationships, channel partnerships, franchises and other growth alliances.
- Identify cross-selling opportunities across the company’s business lines.
- Support development of new channels, market-entry initiatives and corporate development opportunities where relevant.
What they are asking for
- 10 to 15 years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, transformation, business performance, commercial leadership, operations or a similar execution-heavy environment.
- Experience in building systems, industrial products, real estate/construction, PE-backed scale-ups, conglomerates, consulting or other complex B2B environments is an advantage.
- Preferably a female candidate for gender balance.
- Strong commercial and financial literacy, including assessing margins, investment trade-offs, growth economics and execution risk.
- Strong negotiation, partnership development, stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- High analytical ability, excellent judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively at senior level.
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