Chief of Staff

HR-EX Consulting is a consulting firm. We offer professional HR services to small business, functioning as an outsourced HR department. Our core principle is to provide professional HR services at affordable rates to business at the fraction of the cost of hiring a full time HR staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief of Staff

Location: Lagos, Nigeria (travel as required)
Employment Type: Full-time

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.