Job vacancies at Bolt Nigeria – 3 Positions

Bolt (formally Taxify) is recruiting to fill the following positions:

Bolt (formally Taxify) is one of the fastest growing startups in the world with over 30M happy customers in 30+ countries, from Europe to Mexico to Africa. We’re building a ride-hailing app to connect millions of riders and drivers around the world to make travel easier, quicker and more reliable.

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We are looking for a Senior Public Policy Manager to join Bolt's team and cover West and Central Africa.
• You will be the key point of contact for local teams, protecting the business from damaging legislation, regulation and administration at a national and regional level

Responsibilities

• Management and mitigation of political, regulatory and legislative risk
• Design and execution of public affairs strategy including timeline for engagement with KPIs
• Comprehensive stakeholder mapping: assist in-country business units with identifying key stakeholders among elected officials, civil servants, third party groups; ensuring that information is kept current
• Message crafting and localization
• Drafting of position papers, submissions, leave-behinds, consultation papers and oral advocacy materials, as required
• Oral advocacy and effective representation of Bolt in meetings with stakeholders
• Co-primary ownership of relationship with regulatory authorities in operational markets
• Maintenance of relationships with 3rd party groups including NGOs, civil society groups, passenger, commuter and safety organizations
• Representing Bolt in relevant industry associations
• Establish effective relationships with policy-making and regulatory stakeholders in target markets
• Instruct and manage consultant public affairs agencies, freelancers and legal counsel as required.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in a public affairs/ public policy capacity. You may not describe yourself as a lobbyist but you have worked in a professional capacity influencing and changing legislation, regulation and administrative procedure.
• This is not a job for a career changer, nor for an enthusiastic amateur. The successful candidate is likely to come from working for an elected official or with a civil service department, regulatory agency, public affairs agency or might be an in-house in a public policy role, ideally in the tech or transport verticals
• Experience of legislative and regulatory processes on a multi-jurisdictional basis
• While not a communications or PR role, an understanding of how political developments impact the media cycle, and vice versa
• Demonstrable successes in public affairs
• The ability to work and create an advocacy agenda in accordance with a strategic governance framework
• An excellent writer and communicator
• The ability to relate public affairs activity to underpin the commercial operations of a business
• Confident, articulate, organized, resilient
• Educated to degree level, likely with some postgraduate
• Formal legal training in advisory or litigation functions could be helpful but not a prerequisite. Transaction support lawyers, don't waste your time
• Good political networks in some operational markets in the region are an advantage; ability to develop networks a requirement
• Experience of and the confidence to represent Bolt to Cabinet level policy-makers
• Business standard written and spoken English
• Additional languages a distinct advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Details

• We're looking for a Country Manager to join our Bolt Food team and manage all business operations in the country.

What you'll be doing:

• Own and manage Bolt Food business operations in your country
• Setup and scale operational processes for courier operations, restaurant operations, and other functional areas in your market
• Hire and manage an Operations and Sales team
• Define and reach business goals, mainly focused on business growth, profitability, and stakeholders’ great experience (eaters, restaurants, couriers)
• Analyse metrics and implement projects to improve operational and financial city metrics. We are a data-driven company
• Work closely with Regional Manager and HQ teams to resolve any operational or product issues

Requirements

• Have 4 or more years of experience in management and analytics
• Have a data-driven analytical mindset (great Excel skills are a must)
• Amazing negotiation and communication skills
• Team management experience
• Be a hustler, not stopping after 20 obstacles a day
• Be an owner and proactively find solutions to business problems
• Be passionate about new technologies and food tech

You’ll get extra credit for:

• Experience in sharing economy, tech business, transport industry, startup or dynamic high-growth company
• Experience in product launches or running a business

Benefits

• Motivating compensation – motivational base pay and company stock options
• No corporate BS – we’re moving too fast for that
• Amazing personal growth experience at one of the fastest-growing startups in Europe
• Working with a motivated and talented international team, plus regular team events
• Flexible working hours – as long as you get the work done
• Impactful work – you’ll have a rare opportunity to build a product literally used by millions of people across the world

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description

• We’re looking for an experienced International Sales Manager to build and lead our sales teams across Africa. Reporting to the Director of Bolt for Business, you’ll be responsible for implementing the strategies and growth of all our African markets.
• Bolt for Business is growing fast, our product is evolving rapidly and our sales teams are ready to evolve and scale. We’re looking for a driven individual, with experience of rapidly building, coaching and developing sales teams across multiple countries. We don’t just want to build teams, we want to maximise teams and drive multi-million Euro growth - so we need a superstar who’s been there and done it, who doesn’t mind getting hands on with big deal sales and who will build and drive the sales machine we need.
• You’ll need to be a multi-tasker, a seasoned international manager and know how to get a sales organisation to deliver results fast. We’re moving quick and this is a new and exciting role, one with huge scope for growth and impact - if you’ve a history international sales growth, specifically in managing teams selling business services into SME / large businesses - then let’s talk.
• Let’s build the future of business transportation together!

What you'll be doing:

• Overseeing sales performance across several African markets
• Recruiting and building sales teams in all African markets
• Training, coaching and improving local sales teams, including performance management where needed
• Executing the Director of Bolt for Business’ strategies and growth plans
• Working and closing large customer deals, particularly international ones
• Proactively create solutions and improvements in sales execution in your region
• Achieve growth and hit sales targets for the African region
• Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to the management team
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status
• Give market feedback to the product team & director regarding Bolt for Business solutions
• Oversee and own the sales complete African sales pipeline
• Design and implement a strategic business plan that expands the company’s customer base and ensure its strong presence
• Establishing strategic partnerships in line with the B4B Director’s vision
• Closing large local and international sales deals

Requirements

• BS / MS degree in Business Administration or a related field
• At least 10 years of successful previous experience in sales, consistently exceeding targets, with at least 5+ years in a sales manager/director role and 2+ years experience heading up sales teams in several different countries at once.
• Experience recruiting, growing and coaching teams to deliver top level sales performance
• Proven capability to lead and deliver fast and significant multi-million Euro growth, through sales teams
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Proven ability to manage sales teams in several diverse countries and deliver significant growth
• Industry expertise, particularly in selling service products directly into SME and large businesses
• Relentless drive to achieve results, strong-willed, motivating and cool under pressure.
• Experience of using CRM tools to steward and monitor team performance and drive improvements - Pipedrive experience would be an added bonus
• Experience working in a very quick moving well-funded scale-up would be advantageous.
• Someone who gets hands-on and is excited to get involved in closing big deals and building strategic partnerships.

Benefits

• Motivating compensation - motivational base pay and company stock options
• No corporate BS - we’re moving too fast for that
• Amazing personal growth experience at one of the fastest-growing startups in Europe
• Working with a motivated and talented international team, plus regular team events
• Flexible working hours - as long as you get the work done
• Impactful work - you’ll have a rare opportunity to build a product literally used by millions of people across the world

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online