VFD Group is an alternative financial service holding company that creates value by working within Nigeria's informal financial sector to create innovative products and solutions that are accessible to the everyday Nigerian.
Product Manager
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience 8 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development
- JOB SUMMARY
- Responsible for overall strategy, design, business development potential and delivery through strategic collaboration and partnership with relevant channels.
- Coordinate all activities to ensure significant contribution to the company’s profitability objectives by identifying, deploying and engaging relevant platforms that ultimately maximize market penetration, growth, visibility and profitability
- Design and implement innovative products to drive strategic collaboration and partnership within the markets.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS Reports To:
MD/CEO
KEY TASKS
- Oversee the articulation and implementation of effective strategies targeted at the company’s business partnerships that maximize market penetration, customer growth, and profitability
- Leverage competitive intelligence and marketplace trends to provide insights and implement innovative products for profitability and market visibility.
- Coordinate all activities and collaboration to meet customer acquisition and revenue growth targets.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to manage and direct all aspects of the business digitally. This includes strategizing, planning, developing and executing content plans, overseeing the generation of promotional materials and campaigns, monitoring performance analytics, website traffic and product performance
RESPONSIBILITIES
Product Development
- Design and deploy products targeted at various digital platforms that will ultimately maximize market penetration, growth, and profitability.
- Embed customer segmentation, consumer learning to understand how to deliver the right products to the right individual at the right time for a superior experience.
- Supervise the research and information gathering effort and ensure conduction of feasibility study in order to assess viability of product offerings.
- Provide innovative insights and make contributions and suggestions for product development.
- Market Intelligence / Business environment monitoring
- Keep abreast of global and local practices as it relates to the function’s operations. Gather intelligence on the preferences and behavioural patterns of the diverse markets within the Nigerian operating environment and proffer recommendations to the Executives.
- Actively coordinate the development of a viable, market penetration and market share acquisition framework targeted at the various customer segment (i.e. corporates/institutions, and individuals) including platforms such e-commerce, and other industries.
- Obtain market information and seek client feedback for process optimization.
- Design and implement collaboration activities targeted at specific customers, corporates and platforms that would maximize the Company’s market potentials and ultimately the strategic positioning of the brand.
- Develop propositions for promotional campaigns targeted at partnership with various market segment aimed at acquiring new customers and stimulating usage among existing customers.
- Develop multi-channel marketing campaigns to drive relationships with existing customers, new customers and within the digitally enabled prospects.
- Liaise with other internal stakeholders in defining effective e-channel to implement approved propositions.
- Meet financial targets across the different KPIs and other assignments as may be discussed with management
Others
- Identify emerging technologies, developments and innovations and how they can be applied to the company’s business development drive. Propose creative and innovative business development digital solutions.
- Identify required resources, personnel, funding to achieve the unit/ team’s strategy.
- Provide such information to the MD and the Executives as required in order to assess the performance of the business and achievement of agreed strategy and budget.
- Carry out all other tasks as assigned from time to time.
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- KPIs (CORE)
- Percentage achievement with partnership creation
- Percentage growth of partnerships and platforms
- Number and quality of innovations in product development
- Percentage achievement of set target to achieved sales goal
- Turnover of reports delivery with minimal error
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required
- Visionary and Inventive
- Innovative
- Creative
- Technology Savvy
- Self-starter
- Data analytics
- Relationship Management Skill
- Negotiation Skills
- Product development
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- An analytical approach to work
- Negotiation skills and the ability to influence others
- Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise
- The ability to work as part of a team and to build strong working relationships
- Outstanding interpersonal and influencing skills; a good team player
- Strong customer focus
- Commercial acumen and sound business awareness
Qualification:
- First Degree, BSc from a reputable institution
- Msc or MBA in Sales or Marketing
- Minimum 8 years work experience as a product manager
- Proven experience in digital space, e-commerce, and telemarketing
- Qualifications and membership in relevant professional body
go to method of application »Company Secretary
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Law / Legal
- Details:
Functions & Responsibilities
Company Secretarial- Organizing, preparing agendas for and taking minutes of board meetings quarterly and annual general meetings (AGMs) and Extra-ordinary (EGMs);
- Timely Scheduling and organization of AGMs, Board and Board Committee meetings;
- Circulation of minutes of meeting within 48hours of convening meetings
- Maintaining statutory books, including registers of members, directors and secretaries; and Issuance of share certificates
- Maintaining the register of shareholders and monitoring changes in share ownership of the company;
- Contributing to meeting discussions as and when required, and advising members, of the legal, governance and tax implications of proposed policies;
- Dealing with correspondence, collating information and writing reports, ensuring decisions made are communicated to the relevant company stakeholders;
- Managing share option schemes, share issues, mergers and takeovers processes;
- Managing the legal aspect of the Group’s transactions including acquisitions, rights offers, transfer of shares, mergers etc;
Corporate Governance- Drafting of Policies, procedures and rules to ensure world class governance standard, and consistently ensure the effectiveness of the Group’s corporate governance framework.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory framework for Corporate Governance
Compliance- Ensure that statutory filings, notices of change and other regulatory filing are done within the regulated timelines
- Monitoring changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment and taking appropriate action;
Due Diligence
Set up Due Diligence procedure for investors and administer same.
Conduct proper Due Diligence on all prospective shareholder
Custodianship- Ensure effective and efficient filing system.
- Ensure proper custody of sensitive documents
- Ensure proper titles and ownership of Group’s assets.
- Categorization of documents in custody and also reflect the degree of Security allowed same.
Key Performance Indicators- Ensure the corporate calendar is ready before the first working day of the year.
- 100% performance against the approved Corporate Calendar;
- Number of times minutes of meeting is circulated before the prescribed 48hours
- Update the various statutory books within 2 weeks of any change;
- Level of stakeholders’ awareness of information and agreed policies and communication of same within 24 hours.
- Ensure zero penalty in regulatory filings, and ensure filings are done on the due date provided there are no operational constraints
- Communication of changes in relevant legislation and actions taken to ensure implementation and compliance within 48 hours of such change;
- Initiate due diligence procedure within 24 hours of being briefed.
- Ensure document is released within 10 minutes of request.
- Ensure documents are not released without appropriate authorization.
Financial Target - To be given
Skills / Competence Requirements- Planning and good book keeping skills, proficiency in electronic meeting scheduling, tracking and prompters;
- Proactive and analytical skills, good relationship management and communication skills.
- Integrity and Accuracy
- Precision
- Knowledge of regulations and policies relevant to the company business objects
Generic Skills- Proactive Attitude
- Analytical skills / Problem solving
- Resilience, Tenacity and Integrity,
- Interpersonal skills and ability to work in team
- Communication (oral & written)
- Good multitasking capabilities
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft
Qualification
Minimum of a first degree or its equivalent in a Law or related discipline except if exempted.
Professional Membership
A recognised professional certification will be an added advantagego to method of application »Legal and Compliance Officer
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Law / Legal
Functions & Responsibilities
Compliance- Prepare a legal and regulatory compliance checklist and check for 100% compliance;
- monitoring changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment and taking appropriate action;
- Liaising with external regulators and advisers, such as lawyers and auditors;
- Ensure that none of the policies and procedures of the Company and its related activities is illegal, unethical, or improper;
- Respond to alleged violations of rules, regulations, policies and procedures by evaluating or recommending the initiation of investigative procedures;
- Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability develop/implement corrective action plan for resolution of problematic issues, and provide general guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
- Manage interactions/ correspondence with regulators and relevant legal agent
Litigation- Offer dispute resolution advice including matters of recovery claims and actions;
- Liaising with external Lawyer representing the Company in any form of dispute;
- Handle all default related litigations
Contracts- Drafting and review of contracts, including but not limited to contracts for provision of goods and services; acquisition of goods and services, partnership contracts, etc;
- Ensure legal documentation of transaction executed by the company;
- Ensure appropriate execution and monitor implementation of
Legal Advise- Provide Legal advise on the relevant laws and regulations as it concerns the business of the Company;
- Draft Legal Opinions when requested.
Custodianship- Ensure effective and efficient filing system
- Ensure proper custody of sensitive documents
- Ensure proper titles and ownership of Group’s assets.
Key Performance Indicators- Ensure zero penalty in regulatory filings, and ensure filings are done on the due date provided there are no operational constraints
- Communication of changes in relevant legislation and actions taken to ensure implementation and compliance within 48 hours of such change.
- Raise a red flag within an hour of detecting unethical, illegal or improper activities.
- Maintain all document/ correspondences in the compliance files.
- Ensure response to correspondence within 24 hours
- Draft and Review contracts/ agreements within 48 hours of request.
- Profer advise within the stipulated timeline.
- Ensure document is released within 10 minutes of request.
- Ensure documents are not released without appropriate authorization.
Skills / Competence Requirements- Planning and good book keeping skill
- Proactive and analytical skills
- Good relationship management
- Good communication skills.
- Integrity and Accuracy
- Precision
- Knowledge of regulations and policies relevant to the company business
- Research and analytical skills
- Good relationship Management skills
- Drafting skills, practical knowledge of contract, analytical skills accuracy and time management skills
- In-depth understanding of company internal operations and structure
Generic Skills- Proactive Attitude
- Analytical skills / Problem solving
- Resilience, Tenacity and Integrity,
- Interpersonal skills and ability to work in team
- Communication (oral & written)
- Good multitasking capabilities
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft
Qualification- Minimum of a first degree in Law, must have be called to the Nigerian bar.
- Professional Membership
- Must be a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
- A recognised professional certification will be an added advantage
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- Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to careers@vfdgroup.com on/before Thursday, 9th January 2020 with the relevant position applied for as heading.
