Employer Engagement & Job Placement Lead

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Money in Minutes Finance Company, a UK-originated FinTech launching in Nigeria, seeks an Employer Engagement & Job Placement Lead in Lagos. This target-driven B2B role involves acquiring employers, securing hiring commitments, and placing candidates. Requires experience in BPO, recruitment, or donor-funded workforce programmes, and a Bachelor's degree.

• Not a conventional HR role; it is a commercial B2B employer acquisition position.
• Success measured by employers acquired, vacancies generated, and participants placed.
• Hybrid role with travel within South-West region.
• Experience in BPO, recruitment, or education-to-employment is an added advantage.

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Employer Engagement & Job Placement Lead at Money in Minutes (MIM) Finance Company Limited ⏲ Jul 28, 2026, 9:09 AM ⋕ View all Banking & Financial Services jobs MIM Finance Company Limited (t/a Money in Minutes or MIM) is a UK-originated FinTech start-up in the process of launching its exciting products in Nigeria. MIM’s aim is to provide straightforward and instant finance to consumers in a bid to help solve the current access to finance problems in Africa. MIM’s products would also make it possible for low and middle-class earners to acquire white goods and solar energy-generating equipment in a bid to resolving the electricity challenge engulfing the continent. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Employer Engagement & Job Placement Lead Location: Lagos Employment Type: Full-Time About The Role This is a target-driven B2B employer acquisition and placement role. It is not a conventional internal HR, general recruitment, programme coordination, public relations, or stakeholder-engagement position. Success in this role is not measured by the number of meetings held or events attended. It is measured by the quality of employers acquired, the hiring opportunities secured, and the number of programme participants successfully placed. We are seeking a commercially minded relationship builder who can open doors with employers, understand their workforce requirements, and turn employer conversations into measurable hiring outcomes. You will own the employer pipeline from initial prospecting and pitch through agreement, vacancy generation, candidate matching, placement, and partner retention. Key Responsibilitie Qualify workforce needs and secure documented hiring commitments, vacancies, internships, apprenticeships, recruitment drives, or talent-pipeline access. Maintain accurate CRM records and prepare pipeline forecasts, placement reports, performance dashboards, and donor-compliance updates Research target organisations, map decision-makers, conduct structured outreach, pitch the programme, and maintain a qualified employer pipeline. Work with training, recruitment, and career-support teams to translate employer requirements: into candidate profiles, matching, interviews, feedback, and placements. Negotiate and manage MOUs, partnership agreements, and practical collaboration frameworks that produce active employment opportunities. Manage employer relationships after agreement, resolve concerns, support repeat hiring, and use employer feedback to improve candidate readiness. Develop and execute a focused employer acquisition and partnership strategy for the BPO ecosystem and related service sectors. Qualifications & Experience: Added advantage: Experience: within BPO, outsourcing, recruitment, staffing, digital-skills, training, education-to-employment, or donor-funded workforce programmes, together with an active network of employers or hiring decision-makers. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced hybrid environment and travel within the South-West region as required. Strong prospecting, negotiation, presentation, account-management, CRM, reporting, and stakeholder-management capability. Evidence of measurable outcomes such as employers acquired, signed commitments, vacancies generated, candidates placed, revenue or pipeline created, or targets achieved. Demonstrable experience: personally sourcing and converting employer relationships—not only supporting partnerships after they have been secured. Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Marketing, Economics, Public Administration, or a related field. Minimum of 5 years' relevant experience: in employer engagement, B2B business development, partnership management, staffing or recruitment client acquisition, workforce development, employability, career services, or a related field. How Success will be Measured: Achievement of employer-acquisition, placement, conversion, and partner-retention targets. Qualified employers added to the active pipeline and converted into written hiring commitments. Jobs, internships, apprenticeships, recruitment opportunities, and placements secured. Who Should Apply Recruitment business development, staffing solutions, RPO account management, or client acquisition roles where you won employers and generated vacancies. BPO, outsourcing, or shared-services client partnerships roles involving workforce demand, account development, or hiring partnerships. Strong applicants will be able to provide numbers. For example: employers acquired, agreements signed, vacancies generated, candidates placed, hiring conversion rates, partner retention, pipeline value, or targets achieved. University or training-provider career services, industry liaison, corporate relations, or placement roles with clear employer and placement targets. Your current or previous job title does not need to match this title exactly. This role is likely to suit applicants from any of the following backgrounds: Business development or B2B partnerships roles within recruitment, staffing, outsourcing, BPO, training, education, HR services, or workforce solutions. Employer engagement, employer relations, employability, workforce development, job placement, or career services roles with responsibility for employment outcomes. How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using Job Title as the subject of the email. View all Jobs in Nigeria Lagos State