Business Strategist
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Talent Network Institute is hiring a Business Strategist in Lagos, Nigeria for an established events company expanding into new business lines and Pan-African markets. The role involves designing business models, leading strategic initiatives, supporting high-value deals, and building financial models and commercial KPIs. Full-time position with a negotiable salary range of NGN 600,000 – 900,000.
- Full-time role in Lagos with negotiable salary NGN 600,000 – 900,000
- Mid-level role requiring 4–7 years of strategy or commercial experience
- Focus on new revenue lines, market expansion, and deal support
- Requires Bachelor’s degree and English proficiency
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Lagos
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Entertainment, Events & Sport
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600,000 - 900,000
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Job summary
Our client is one of the country's most established events companies, currently expanding into new business lines and new Pan-African markets. As part of that build, they are creating a high-leverage strategy function.
Min Qualification:
Degree
Experience
Level:
Mid level
Length:
4 years
Language Requirement:
English
Working Hours:
Full Time - 8 to 5
Applicant
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job descriptions &
taking a commercial initiative from concept to revenue — the candidate should be able to name the initiative, the model they designed, and what it earned.
Strong financial modelling capability; able to build a business model from scratch in Excel and defend every assumption in it.
Exposure to events, experiential marketing, media, entertainment, hospitality, FMCG, telecoms or another sponsorship-adjacent sector is a strong advantage.
Multi-market or cross-border African commercial
is an advantage.
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Requirements
- 5–7 years in strategy, corporate development, commercial management, management consulting, investment banking, transaction advisory or business development with a strategic remit.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Marketing or a related field.
- MBA, ACA/ACCA, CFA or a relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
- Demonstrable
Responsibilities
- Business Model & Commercial Design:
- Design and stress-test business models for new revenue lines — owned event IP, venue and asset management, technical production services, content and media rights, sponsorship representation, ticketing and data products.
- Build the unit economics for each initiative: cost structure, margin architecture, break-even volumes, contribution analysis and cash cycle.
- Develop pricing and packaging strategy across service lines and markets, including sponsorship tiering, rate cards, retainer versus project structures, and revenue-share models.
- Design commercial structures for partnerships, joint ventures, licensing and local representation arrangements — risk allocation, revenue splits, performance triggers, exit terms.
- Strategic Initiative Execution:
- Own delivery of assigned strategic initiatives end-to-end: define scope, build the plan, secure internal resourcing, drive milestones, unblock obstacles and report progress.
- Serve as commercial lead on new market launches, working with the Research & Strategy Manager's market intelligence to convert entry plans into operating businesses.
- Build the commercial case for investment decisions capex requests, new hires, venue commitments, event acquisitions — with clear ROI logic and risk framing.
- Run post-initiative reviews: what the numbers actually delivered versus the case made, and what that means for the next one.
- Deal Support & Revenue Enablement:
- Partner with Business Development on high-value pursuits: shape the commercial proposition, build the pricing, model the deal, and pressure-test the bid before it goes out.
- Structure and negotiate commercial terms on strategic deals alongside Commercial and Legal; prepare negotiation positions, walk-away points and concession ladders.
- Build the commercial architecture behind major client and sponsor relationships — multi-year frameworks, portfolio deals, first-right arrangements.
- Develop proposal and pitch frameworks that raise the commercial quality of the company's outbound work across the board.
- Performance, Planning & Insight:
- Build and maintain financial models for strategic initiatives, including scenario and sensitivity analysis under FX, cost inflation and demand variability.
- Define the commercial KPIs for each initiative and track them; surface underperformance early with a recommended course of action, not just a variance.
- Contribute to annual planning and budgeting: revenue targets by line and market, resource requirements, investment sequencing.
- Produce executive and Board-facing material on initiative performance and commercial recommendations.
- Cross-functional Leadership:
- Act as connective tissue between strategy, commercial and operations — ensuring what is sold can be delivered, and what is delivered is priced correctly.
- Bring operational and finance colleagues into commercial design early, so models reflect real delivery cost rather than assumption.
- Coach and review the work of analysts or junior team members as the function grows.