Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff at HR-EX Consulting

Job Type Full Time

• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 10 - 15 years
• Location Lagos
• Job Field Administration / Facilities

Job Summary

• We are seeking an experienced and commercially driven Chief of Staff to reduce founder dependency by translating leadership priorities into disciplined execution.
• The role will drive cross-functional coordination, management accountability, strategic initiatives, and major commercial opportunities, ensuring priorities move from discussion to completion with minimal follow-up from the CEO or COO.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the company-wide execution rhythm for strategic priorities, with clear owners, milestones, risks, deadlines and escalation paths.

• Strengthen management accountability by tracking commitments, challenging slippage, and ensuring decisions translate into action.

• Coordinate cross-functional priorities across Sales, Finance, Business Support, HR, Procurement/Inventory, Technical, Operations, Marketing and other functions.

• Prepare concise decision papers, performance dashboards and action trackers for the CEO/COO and management team.

• Challenge timelines, ownership and execution quality without replacing functional heads or duplicating department ownership.

• Identify and help drive major commercial opportunities, strategic accounts and enterprise-level growth initiatives.

• Lead or support complex negotiations, strategic contracts and major commercial arrangements.

• Develop and manage strategic partnerships, including manufacturer relationships, channel partnerships, franchises and other growth alliances.

• Identify cross-selling opportunities across the company's business lines.

• Support development of new channels, market-entry initiatives and corporate-development opportunities where relevant.

• Perform other strategic and executive duties as assigned.

• Qualifications & Requirements

• 10 to 15 years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, transformation, business performance, commercial leadership, operations or a comparable execution-heavy environment.

• Experience in building systems, industrial products, real estate/construction, PE-backed scale-ups, conglomerates, consulting or other complex B2B environments is an advantage.

• Preferably a female candidate for gender balance.

• Strong commercial and financial literacy, including the ability to assess margins, investment trade-offs, growth economics and execution risk.

• Strong negotiation, partnership development, stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• High analytical ability, excellent judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively at senior level.

• Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.