Our client, one of Nigeria’s major conglomerates, is looking to hire a Head Portfolio Value Creation who will be responsible for driving value creation, strategic growth, and execution oversight across the organisation’s portfolio companies and strategic investment platforms.
Reporting directly to the CIO, the role serves as the organisation’s day-to-day portfolio engagement lead, partnering with portfolio company leadership teams to accelerate growth, improve operational performance, strengthen accountability, and maximise long-term shareholder value creation.
The Head, Portfolio Value Creation will lead strategic planning oversight transformation execution, performance management and business improvement initiatives across the portfolio while also supporting also supporting the evaluation, execution and integration of new investment and strategic business platforms.
This role requires a commercially astute, execution-oriented leader with the credibility to engage senior business leaders, challenge assumptions, drive accountability, and deliver measurable outcomes across diverse businesses.
Responsibilities
Portfolio Value Creation & Strategic Execution
- Drive value creation initiatives across the organisation’s portfolio companies, with clear accountability for execution and measurable performance improvement.
- Work with portfolio company leadership teams to support growth, operational improvement, and long-term value optimisation.
- Coordinate and track strategic initiatives, transformation programmes, and key business priorities across portfolio companies.
- Support execution oversight of strategic and operational improvement initiatives to ensure timely delivery and alignment with shareholder objectives.
- Monitor implementation of agreed management action plans and follow through on key deliverables and outcomes.
Portfolio Engagement & Relationship Management
- Serve as the organisation’s principal day-to-day portfolio engagement lead across assigned portfolio companies.
- Build strong, credible working relationships with portfolio company MDs, executive teams, and key stakeholders to drive alignment and performance.
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to portfolio company leadership while maintaining appropriate shareholder oversight and accountability.
- Escalate material performance issues, execution delays, or governance concerns to the CIO with clear recommendations for intervention.
- Lead regular portfolio engagement and business performance review discussions.
Strategic Planning & Business Performance
- Lead portfolio company strategic planning, annual business review, and performance management processes.
- Review, challenge, and refine strategic plans, growth assumptions, operational priorities, and capital deployment proposals.
- Own performance monitoring across assigned portfolio companies, ensuring robust tracking against agreed financial, operational, and strategic targets.
- Analyse business performance, identify gaps to plan, and drive interventions to improve outcomes.
- Support development of shareholder perspectives and strategic recommendations for portfolio boards and investment leadership.
Transformation & Business Improvement
- Design and drive transformation programmes across portfolio companies to improve commercial performance, operational effectiveness, organisational capability, and strategic execution.
- Lead cross-functional business improvement initiatives in collaboration with management teams and relevant internal stakeholders.
- Ensure transformation initiatives are properly structured, governed, tracked, and delivered within agreed timelines.
- Drive a culture of accountability, execution discipline, and performance improvement across active portfolio engagements.
Investment Evaluation & Portfolio Integration
- Support investment evaluation, due diligence, transaction execution, and strategic assessment of new investment opportunities.
- Assess operational value creation opportunities, execution risks, integration considerations, and strategic fit for prospective investments.
- Lead post-investment integration planning and execution support where required to accelerate value capture.
- Support investment thesis validation through operational and commercial due diligence.
New Business & Platform Development
- Support the development, launch, and scaling of new strategic business initiatives and investment platforms across the Group.
- Develop business plans, execution frameworks, and operating models for new ventures where required.
- Coordinate key internal and external stakeholders involved in strategic business initiatives.
Governance, Reporting & Stakeholder Management
- Prepare high-quality portfolio performance updates, strategic reviews, investment committee materials, and management reports.
- Participate actively in portfolio governance forums, investment reviews, and strategic decision-making processes.
- Work closely with the broader IPM team, including portfolio management, investment, and analytical resources, to drive execution and value creation outcomes.
- Ensure disciplined reporting, escalation, and governance across active portfolio engagements.
Must have skills
- Governance and stakeholder management
- Business diagnostics and problem solving
- Performance management
- Portfolio value creation
- Business transformation
- Strategic planning and execution
- Commercial and financial acumen
- Investment and transaction understanding
- Operational improvement
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Strategy, Management, or a related discipline.
- MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
- Minimum of 12-15 years’ relevant experience across portfolio management, operations leadership, strategy execution, transformation, private equity portfolio operations, consulting, investment management, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience driving measurable value creation, transformation, or operational improvement in complex businesses.
- Strong track record of working with senior leadership teams to drive strategic execution and business performance.
- Experience across multi-business, conglomerate, portfolio, or investment-led environments strongly preferred.
- Exposure to investment evaluation, due diligence, and post-investment value creation is desirable.
- Experience influencing senior executives, boards, or shareholders in high-accountability environments.
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Our client, a personal executive office, is looking to hire an Executive Office Manager to oversee the planning, coordination and execution of strategic initiatives beyond the executive banking responsibilities. The role exists to create the structure, momentum and operational excellence required to advance the broader leadership agenda across governance, thought leadership, industry contribution, lifelong learning, entrepreneurship, philanthropy and personal legacy.
This position requires exceptional judgement, intellectual curiosity, discretion and the ability to coordinate multiple long-term initiatives simultaneously. The candidate is expected to anticipate needs, connect ideas, drive execution and ensure that important initiatives never lose momentum.
Responsibilities
Executive Office & Strategic Planning
- Serve as the operational lead for the Executive Office by coordinating strategic priorities across multiple areas.
- Maintaining an Executive Office dashboard of all strategic initiatives.
- Translating ideas into structured work plans with milestones and deliverables.
- Tracking progress across long-term projects.
- Preparing quarterly planning sessions and annual personal strategy reviews.
- Coordinating follow-up actions and ensuring accountability.
- Maintaining an integrated calendar aligned to strategic priorities rather than simply appointments.
Governance & Board Affairs
- Coordinate responsibilities relating to board and governance appointments.
- Maintaining board calendars and annual work plans.
- Coordinating preparation for board meetings.
- Managing board papers and reference materials.
- Tracking governance actions and commitments.
- Maintaining records of board appointments and professional obligation
- Coordinating continuing governance education and certifications.
Thought Leadership & Intellectual Capital
- Support the development and management of professional voice and intellectual contributions.
- Maintaining a repository of speeches, presentations and articles.
- Coordinating research for keynote presentations and panel discussions.
- Managing speaking engagements and conference participation.
- Tracking emerging themes relevant to financial markets, leadership and governance.
- Coordinating publication opportunities and professional content.
- Organising ideas into structured frameworks and reusable intellectual property.
Leadership Development & Learning
- Coordinate long-term leadership development journey.
- Maintaining an annual learning roadmap.
- Coordinating executive education opportunities.
- Managing reading lists, research papers and learning notes.
- Tracking professional certifications and development goals.
- Coordinating coaching engagements and leadership programmes.
- Building and maintaining a searchable personal knowledge library.
Strategic Relationships & Network Stewardship
- Support the intentional development of professional network.
- Maintaining a relationship management system.
- Tracking key interactions with senior stakeholders.
- Coordinating follow-up communications.
- Managing invitations, industry events and networking opportunities.
- Preparing briefing notes ahead of important meetings.
- Supporting meaningful relationship-building initiatives.
Special Projects & New Ventures
- Coordinate strategic initiatives outside the formal employment like entrepreneurship ventures, Advisory engagements, Community and education initiatives, Research projects, Personal investment opportunities, Innovation concepts, Family office initiatives and Legacy and impact projects.
- Developing project plans.
- Conducting preliminary research.
- Coordinating external advisers.
- Tracking milestones.
- Preparing briefing documents.
- Ensuring execution remains on schedule.
Executive Communications
- Provide high-quality executive support across strategic communications.
- Drafting executive correspondence.
- Preparing briefing notes.
- Coordinating presentations.
- Maintaining communication templates.
- Managing confidential documents.
- Preparing meeting summaries and action trackers.
Must have skills
- Exceptional judgement and integrity.
- Absolute discretion with confidential information.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Intellectual curiosity and a genuine love of learning.
- Strong systems thinking and organisational capability.
- Ability to simplify complexity into structured execution.
- High emotional intelligence and professional maturity.
- Calmness under pressure.
- Initiative, ownership and follow-through.
- A bias for action without sacrificing quality.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Postgraduate qualification or project management certification is advantageous.
- Minimum of 3-5 years\' experience supporting senior executives, entrepreneurs or principals with diverse portfolios.
- Experience in executive support, strategy, consulting, programme management, executive office or chief-of-staff environments will be an advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.
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