Chief Strategy Officer at Greenville LNG Company Limited

Greenville LNG Company Limited is the pioneer Domestic LNG producer in Nigeria with the objective of extending gas supplies to regions not reached by gas pipelines thereby making available a competitive source of energy to boost the economy. Greenville LNG Plant is in Rumuji near Port-Harcourt and has customer locations in Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, Enugu, Sokoto, Aba and other cities nationwide.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Strategy Officer

Job Code: CSO-2
Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

The Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) will serve as a critical member of the executive management team. In collaboration with the CEO, the CSO will articulate and implement a strategic vision for Greenville that focuses on effective growth;
The CSO is responsible for formalizing the company’s strategic-planning processes, and leading the development of the strategy, translating it for people across functions and business units, and drive organizational change forging new working relationships and synergies across the organization, and establishing greater transparency and accountability for those people carrying out the company’s strategy.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and manage the company growth strategy.
Liaise and work closely with sales, marketing, procurement, technical, operational departments.
Plan, implement and manage national and international investment opportunities.
Create, implement, and manage the company’s business plan.
Develop, implement, and manage sales forecasting activities, targets, sectors, markets for Nigeria, ECOWAS and other African markets.
Prepare and present reports for the Board detailing sales, potential sales and areas of proposed client base expansion and expansion into new territories/markets.
Review and analyse sales performance against plans to determine effectiveness.
Give direction to the marketing and sales departments/teams.
Coordinate sales and marketing campaigns and initiatives to achieve business objective.
Direct staff, training and performance evaluations to develop and control sales and marketing programmes.
Meet with key clients, governments, to create and develop new relationships for corporate expansion
Identify and understand client’s business needs and objectives to develop investment opportunities.
Identify and understand investment opportunities across Africa.

Education And Personal Attributes

A degree in Engineering or related field is required
Minimum 15 years in the oil and gas sector, with at least 10 years at executive management or board level.
Experience in both upstream and downstream sectors of oil and gas essential.
Experience in the power sector and/or renewable energy essential.
Experience in investments of projects of $100m and greater
Ability to develop, manage and implement strategy and plans for up to 15 different countries
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
Knowledge and application of a wide range of marketing and sales techniques and concepts
Enthusiastic and creative.
Strategic planning skills
Strong organisational skills
Strong motivation, leadership and team management skills
Analytic ability
Fluent in English, French and Dutch essential