Job Openings at Edgewood Consulting Limited

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Department: Executive Office

Job Summary

• Responsible for providing professional and high-level administrative support to the CEO and teams reporting to him by performing a wide variety of reliable, analytical, and administrative duties to ensure cross-organizational coherence and effectiveness.

Duties and Responsibilities
CEO Office:

• Provide high-level administrative support to the CEO, including preparing reports, handling correspondence and scheduling meetings
• Provide strategic, and operational support to the CEO/MD towards enhancing the effectiveness and impact of the CEO/MD's role in the implementation of projects and operations of the Company
• Serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters pertaining to the Office of the CEO
• Evaluates, reviews, and interprets operationa and administrative inquiries in order to provide recommendations for both existing and potential clients, as may be directed by the CEO.
• Conducts first level review of all operational presentations, and correspondences coming into the CEO’s office and recommend next steps prior to further inputs from the CEO.
• Coordinates and participates in various operational/ strategic meetings with the CEO; articulating key decisions and agreed action points; cascading them to relevant stakeholders on a need to know basis and follows through on execution and feedback

HR Management:

• Set yearly budget for Human Resources and Training
• Development of human resource policies and processes
• Maintains organisation structure and update personnel file
• Coordinates process of induction & briefing for new staff.

Remuneration:

• Develops and manages compensation and benefit
• Verify Monthly Payrolls Schedules with Finance & Account Dept.

Performance Management:

• Ensures performance management standards are adhered to
• Manages staff promotion in line with company policy
• Participates in the quarterly appraisal exercise

Recruitment and Training:

• Ensures effective management of the recruiting function: selection, placement and induction as well as Training and Development function.

Facility Administration & Supervision:

• Provision & Maintenance of Facilities and Utilities
• Security & Logistics
• Provision of conducive work environment
• Vehicle Management.

Protocol:

• Ensures seamless passage for Management staff and Expatriates at various departure and entry points as well as employees/ clients travelling
• Ensures efficient travel management as well as hotel reservation and Visa .
• Makes reservation and hotel accommodation for staff and as may be required.

Tendering Support:

• Support on Tender documentations
• Support for Preparation on Company Profile and Proposals
• Ensure early submission of Tenders on Clients Portal/Email
• Any other tasks as may be assigned by the Company

Qualifications & Experience

• B.Sc Degree / HND in Social Sciences or Humanities
• Minimum of 8 years post qualification experience
• A Corporate Member CIPM and other Professional Bodies will be an advantage

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong creative and analytical thinking.
• Administrative and Organizational Skills.
• Information Management Skills
• Highly motivated, organized, enthusiastic and energetic professional with strong attention to detail and a sense of urgency to get the job done.
• Ability to accurately handle a high volume of tasks and prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding communication skills - both written and verbal
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office suite: Outlook, Excel and Word.

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Location: Gbagada, Lagos

Job Description

• We seek an experienced business consulting professional to lead our Learning & Development / consulting business unit.
• The successful candidate will design and implement market focused actions in assigned segments of the economy and execute B2B relationship strategies resulting in increased adoption of our services to corporate customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with senior management in existing and potential client companies to determine requirements for improving top line and bottom line performance for such companies.
• Act as a consultant to diagnose and propose/recommend appropriate learning interventions for fixing sales & other performance problems within existing and potential client organisations, using solutions from our portfolio of services.
• Oversee curriculum design and content delivery aspects of our operations, including technology platform decisions.
• Proactively acquire new business through marketing, generated leads and cold calling into targeted lists.
• Proactively acquire new business through calling into past participants and other inquiries on our programs.
• Develop trust with a prospect/client by fulfilling commitments and handling issues in order to gain customer satisfaction.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to clients and potential clients; prepare and write proposals.
• Determine the appropriate delivery options (public/private) and based on segmentation either transfer the opportunity to the appropriate sales channel or continue to work with the client
• Provide monthly reports on call volume, new opportunities and revenue booked.
• Gain knowledge of sales training, leadership development, business simulations and consulting business through annual reports, vertical markets, competitor offerings, and business journals in order to develop a detailed understanding of sales effectiveness issues in businesses.

Education / Experience Requirements

• University Degree or Higher National Diploma, with 6 - 10 years relevant experience delivering training and/or HR consulting services.

Skills Requirements:

• Superior written and verbal communications skills with the ability to foster and promote open exchange of ideas and knowledge.
• Ability to effectively present information one-on-one, in small group situations, with clients or potential clients, and with other employees.
• Must effectively allocate and prioritize time according to business opportunities.
• Persuasion and influencing skills and the ability to encourage a decision to purchase.
• Ability to develop a comprehensive knowledge of products and potential applications.
• Ability to deal with problems involving varying situations.
• Commitment to external and internal customer satisfaction.
• Self-driven and motivated individual
• Prior experience in selling services, especially training and development services is an advantage.