Country Managing Director at First Excelsia

Our Client in the educational sector is looking to hire a Managing Director. The Managing Director will learn the full spectrum of business operations and business methods from the outgoing Managing Director as well as from the extended global team. The Managing Director should expect to work as an intrepreneur in Lagos. While the Managing Director will have full corporate support and benefit from the lessons learned and processes developed over 9 years from the operations of the company as well as from being in operation in Nigeria for 2 years, this is a role that will require fearless, dogged, entrepreneurial spirit.

Job Specification

• Drive continued market expansion in Nigeria, including managing a team of 600+ staff and growing which is needed to execute in-country strategy and operations
• Work with and leverage team support from the global teams and support offices across the 7 countries we operate in to ensure in-country operations are aligned to global processes and systems
• Refine and execute country strategy to ensure sustainable operations at scale and deliver the maximum learning impact to the children of
• Refine and create highly-structured, insightful processes, systems and recommendations with a data-driven approach alongside the in country senior leadership team, to continue expansion and to support operations at
• Project manage the moving parts of the day to day operation by ensuring each function is operating on time, on budget and on

Person Specification

• At least 10 - 15 years of post-undergraduate, full time work experience
• At least one work experience that required highly independent work in an exceedingly challenging environment
• Work experience at top corporations (in emerging markets and the US or UK) balanced by a demonstrated interest in entrepreneurship and data-driven decision-making, including the ability to flourish in dynamic, ambiguous environments
• Strong business network with senior executives in private business, government and civil society spheres in the specified country
• Prior full time work experience in the specified country
• Prior experience starting a start-up; secondarily, prior experience as an early hire at a start-up who remained with the company through to profitability, acquisition, or
• Work experience in a highly political industry, where ideological conflict is common and strategy, ingenuity, negotiation and persuasion are necessary for
• Ability to manage a very broad scope of work; front office, back office, development, regulatory
• Willingness and comfort working in a Global matrix, willingness to learning and input from the global functional
• Record of strong academic performance from a leading undergraduate and graduate institution