Highlights:

Skills:Business Development, Business Relationship Management

Membership:The AFRICA BUSINESS CLUB THE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS IMC-NIGERIA THE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS UNITED KINGDOM

Certification:LONDON GRADUATE SCHOOL Certified Management Specialist (CMS) INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT - Certified Management Consultant Certified Management Specialist IMS Fellow of The Africa Business Club FTABC

General Manager 10/2022 - 04/2023
Global Trade Capital Company, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Financial Service
Planning, coordinating and managing all business operations to achieve corporate goals, supervising departmental heads, developing key performance goal KPIs, measuring staff performance appraisals;
Assisting line managers with hiring, training and managing staff performance; Evaluating and improving the current business processes and system; Define long-term strategic goals and developing clear plan for execution; Approve budgets for relevant department operations based on data and critical thinking; Improve internal processes and ensure employees work as a cohesive unit.--
Principal Consultant 02/2022 - current
Trade Sense Expert Limited, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Financial Service
Providing leadership and direction to Associate Consultants often including new hires and develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations.
Communicating with clients to determine their needs and achieve their financial goals; To provide financial trading education to clients; strategies, risk and portfolio management; Determine which services will be most beneficial to clients based on their individual needs; Conducting research and understanding clients issues to determine the best trading/investment outcomes; To provide technical support, develop and implement strategies to aid clients’ trading experience.--
Online Business Development Manager 07/2022 - 09/2022
Rally Trade, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Financial Service
To design and develop the online business model, develop sales strategies and implementation to improve lead engagement and conversion. Identify and recommend new areas of opportunity to improve the company online business; To ensure compliance to company’s policy by team members.
Motivate lead managers to achieve optimum performance and effectiveness on job; To define, articulate and implement company’s strategic plan in leads generation; Design daily tasks and ensure effective and timely reporting; Build strategies to improve generation and conversion of online leads; Organise training and re-training for team members to improve job quality;--
Head Of Department 06/2020 - 06/2022
Rally Trade, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Financial Service
Pioneered Sales lead management department, design work structure and KPIs for managers.
To develop strategies to improve lead engagement and conversion, motivate lead managers to achieve optimum performance and effectiveness on job. To define, articulate and implement company’s strategic plan in leads generation, design daily tasks and ensure effective and timely reporting. Organise training and re-training for team members to improve job quality and to ensure compliance to company’s policy by team members--
Sales Account Manager 12/2017 - 06/2020
Rally Trade, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Financial Service
Act as company’s representative in the sales team ensuring customer satisfaction and retention; Conduct Sales, deposits and withdrawal processes for clients.
Establishing a good relationships with clients to maintain the brand reputation, handling customer needs and providing technical support. Providing effective training and education for clients who require additional support with knowledge Work with partners and affiliate with necessary assistance with client on-barding and processes. Making regular reports on sales performance KPIs--
Sales/Marketing Executive 08/2009 - 11/2017
Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, Lekki, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Financial Service
Act as company's representative in the market place to convert new customers to subscribe to insurance policy on regular basis and to generate revenue for the company via sales of insurance policies and premium remittance
To create the relevance of the company’s products in the prevailing market competition and educate prospective clients on the relevance of holding an insurance policy. Assist the policy holder to run the policy effectively, assist with the claim process ad effective customer service and customer retention.--

Olabisi Onabanjo University 04/2003 - 07/2008
Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Bsc Economics
Obtained bachelors degree in Economics with second class honour.

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