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Chief of Staff
About this role
HR-EX Consulting is hiring a Chief of Staff in Lagos to reduce founder dependency by turning leadership priorities into disciplined execution. The role focuses on cross-functional coordination, management accountability, strategic initiatives and pursuing major commercial opportunities, with the aim of moving priorities from discussion to completion with minimal direct need for the CEO or COO. The position involves developing an execution rhythm, tracking milestones and risks, and supporting complex negotiations and strategic contracts.
What you would do
- Strengthen management accountability by tracking commitments and addressing slippage.
- Own the company-wide execution rhythm for strategic priorities with clear owners, milestones, risks and deadlines.
- Lead or support complex negotiations, strategic contracts and major commercial arrangements.
- Identify and drive major commercial opportunities, strategic accounts and enterprise growth initiatives.
- Coordinate cross-functional priorities across Sales, Finance, Business Support, HR, Procurement/Inventory, Technical, Operations, Marketing and other functions.
- Develop and manage strategic partnerships, including manufacturer relationships and channel partnerships.
- Identify cross-selling opportunities across the company's business lines.
- Prepare decision papers, performance dashboards, and action trackers for the CEO/COO and management team.
- Challenge timelines, ownership and execution quality without replacing department heads.
- Support development of new channels, market-entry initiatives and corporate development opportunities where relevant.
What they are asking for
- Experience in building systems in complex B2B environments (e.g., industrial products, real estate/construction, PE-backed scale-ups, conglomerates, consulting).
- Strong negotiation, partnership development, stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- High analytical ability, strong judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively at senior level.
- Strong commercial and financial literacy with ability to assess margins and growth economics.
- 10 to 15 years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, transformation, business performance, commercial leadership, operations or similar execution-focused roles.
- Preference for a female candidate to support gender balance.
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