Lucent Consulting Company, a Business and Brand Management Consulting firm is recruiting to fill the position below:
POSITION : Group Business Director/COO
Descriptions
- You must have the capacity to set an inspiring and empowering leadership tone and establish high expectations to deliver brave work.
- You must possess the power to remove barriers and celebrate the success of our clients and our tribes.
- You must the collaborator-in-chief, lead pointer, deal striker, change maker, culture custodian and professional problem-solver for our tribes and our clients.
- You must be a self-motivated high flyer leading client relationships, identifying business challenges, proffering solutions, and growing our business month on month and year on year.
Requirements
- You will be our preferred candidate if you have spent about 10 years within the Marketing Communications ecosystem.
- A significant part of those years must have been spent in a well-structured PR/Reputation Management Consulting firm.
- Leverage and ensure that data/analytics and insights drive decision-making for planning and input to real-time engagement.
- Grow client remit beyond media relations or traditional PR.
- Lead and actively participate in company-wide learning programs
- Expect, encourage and clear the path for your tribe to participate in the company-wide learning programs
- Develop a quick but clear understanding and knowledge of our bespoke proprietary programs and how to engage and activate those tools with existing and potential clients.
Leadership:
- Seamlessly integrate and act as an Ambassador for audacious strategic thinking, traditional, digital/social media and influencer capabilities in every engagement.
- Have financial acumen and understand what the success of the company and the businesses you oversee looks like.
- Generate revenue in new business wins or organic growth per year.
- Lead or be actively involved in business development and present a minimum of 5 new or organic business opportunities each year.
- As the collaborator-in-chief within the organization, you are the rallying point and the positive provocateur for bringing the best thinking and talents to the table from within our tribes for every engagement.
- Responsible for not only building the business, but also for growing the tribes as well as the bonds and relationships amongst the various tribes within the organization.
- Function as the last stop in taking responsibility for the organization’s successes and accountability for mistakes.
Continuously raise the bar to develop yourself and your tribe:
- Position yourself as a strong, respected and inspiring leader within the organization, amongst internal tribe members, direct reports, and client leadership.
- Define your success as the success of your direct reports.
- Create an environment that ensures the productive career development of your tribe members. You must learn to respect differing points of view, maintain a good sense of humor and encourage curiosity and ongoing learning (especially trends, digital and social).
- Set clear objectives and expectations for your tribe based on your knowledge of client and the organization’s business objectives.
- Reward your tribe members for strong performance.
- Actively solicit feedback and educate yourself to improve your performance.
Relationships:
- Offer unsolicited ideas, thinking, and counsel that clients would value.
- Continually merchandise the value of our professional services to clients.
- Regularly seek client feedback on the company’s performance and promote the company’s accomplishments.
- Proactively address issues, obstacles or conflicts with our clients.
- Build client relationships beyond PR – marketing, digital, research and other internal teams.
- Cultivate and maintain a productive client relationships at senior levels of the organization we service to enhance the company’s works.
- Earn and command the respect and confidence of key client executives resulting in favourable feedbacks and assessments from clients.
- Have a finger on the pulse of our clients’ businesses and client executives. Touching base with senior executives of the organizations we service frequently. This also includes engaging the top Marketing/Brand Executives as part of the periodic Client Satisfaction Survey.
Critical Thinking/Creativity:
- Have the ultimate responsibility for profit and business growth for the organization.
- Have a proven track record of developing and presenting dynamic, charismatic and persuasive presentations.
- Have the ability to package ideas and feedback in a clear, logical and persuasive manner with any audience.
- Actively seek integrated (PR- traditional/social/digital/marketing) solutions for the clients’ businesses.
- Stimulate and challenge your team to deliver powerful programs for our clients based on business goals, research, and relevant insights.
- Use experience and forward-thinking to identify and calculate risks, and help guide our tribes and our clients through it – the ability to “connect the dots.”
- Support your tribe in protecting our big idea.
How To Apply
Candidates should send their Applications and CV's to:careers@lucentconsultingng.com
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