Business Development Manager at Oxygen X

The position

• The Business Development Manager is responsible for identifying new opportunities within the Group’s financial services ecosystem-inclusive of new opportunities, new-markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products, services, and new ways of reaching existing markets-for the growth of the company, value realization and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Development of ecosystem business models/plan and growth opportunities for company, across a wide range of industries.
• Working closely with partnerships, product managers, researchers and communications stakeholders within the Group to achieve the Groups financial ecosystem strategy.
• Coordinating and promoting the company’s products and services within ecosystem.
• Identify new projects and opportunities within the ecosystem and support the planning and successful implementation of these projects through sustainable partnerships.
• Development of alternative delivery channels for products and services within the ecosystem.
• Working closely with product managers and product teams to ensure technical integration and systems development are aligned with financial service requirements.
• Work with a range of new and existing customers across all areas of financial services ecosystems to develop viable business ideas and products to be marketed to customers.
• Support partners and stakeholders to increase outreach through piloting new innovations, products and services within ecosystem identified opportunities.
• Construct forecasts and analytical models.
• Ensure value for money in all activities.
• Employ agile principles in managing requirements, tasks, and deliverables.
• Attending conferences and industry events.
• Monitor and respond to Competitor offerings and trends.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3-5 years business development experience in financial services industry with reasonable exposure to strategic planning and business consulting.
• Bachelor’s degree in business related discipline, marketing, finance, IT or related discipline.
• MBA or other professional certifications are desirable.
• Knowledge of business operations and procedures.
• Excellent business development and management skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of Nigerian Fintech market.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Product management skills.

This job is perfect for you if you

• Enjoy adding structure and developing approaches to ambiguous problems.
• Have excellent communication, people and project management skills.
• Have an insatiable drive to make things better - perfectionism mixed with practicality.
• Are a self-starter and influence outcomes regardless of authority.
• Have huge doses of curiosity and enjoy problem solving.