Vacancies at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

• Management and execution of the Sponsorship and Events Unit annual budget of over N1billion, ensuring financial resources are aligned with organizational priorities and plans.
• Planning and budget setting, working with the Holding Company and the Bank’s Business Groups to develop sponsorship plans and consolidate the Group’s requirements for sponsorships, events and exhibitions.
• Development of the overall strategy for sponsorship and events including delivering of events to approved budgets ensuring contractual commitments are delivered.
• Negotiating new sponsorship contracts and sponsorship disposals to fulfil objectives, ensuring activities are measurable and are reviewed whilst exploiting all benefits to agreed budget.
• Organize bank-owned events and support the delivery (in a consistent manner) of all the Group’s activities, workshops, high-profile thought leadership national conferences and events that align to the Group’s strategic objectives and also speak to the Unit’s brand pillars in engaging specific target audiences.
• Assist in communicating the sponsorship strategy to management and managing communication of ongoing sponsorship and events monthly programmes to key stakeholders. This includes managing a calendar for the intranet, updating Sharepoint and communications to staff on key benefits of partnerships. Fully exploit the sponsorship rights in marketing communication and with key customers.
• Supervise and ensures that all sponsorship and events requests are logged, followed through to completion and updates/outcomes communicated to relevant parties.
• Ensure the timely and efficient coordination and delivery of all events and ensuring that the Bank’s standards and values are upheld at all outings.
• Assist the Head, M&CC in ensuring senior management and key stakeholders are positioned shoulder-to-shoulder with national and global decision makers at high level sponsored activities and events.
• Implement metrics, measure, evaluate and document of all sponsored activities for sponsorship effectiveness to ensure maximum Return On Investment. Whilst ensuring the results impact on current processes and strategies related to sponsorship and events
• Ensure database acquisitions at all events are captured as these becomes revenue leads to drive revenue opportunities through post event follow up.
• Assist in providing reports from all sponsorships and events for inclusion in weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly presentation to the Head, M&CC and subsequently to the Holding Company and Groups’ Management and Board highlighting Revenue, Brand Visibility, Database Acquisition, Media mentions, Speaking Opportunities and Hospitality engagements.
• Manage sponsorship commitments and contractual timings to ensure payments are timely and renewal process is managed effectively – where applicable
• Manage and support independent consultants, agencies and volunteers conducting work under the auspices of selected events.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with the sponsorship and events agencies and partners and liaise with vendors and direct marketing agencies to plan, organize, execute, monitor and evaluate the impact of direct marketing on the Bank’s events.
• Supervises and ensures Bank’s brand/visibility during bank’s events is maintained to ensure consistency.
• Assist in providing competitor positioning and reports as related to sponsorship and events.
• Proposes, identifies, and supervises distribution of appropriate promotional/gift items for goodwill suitable for target audience at events and sponsored activities so as to enhance the Banks’ corporate image.
• Supervises the project management deliverables on all sponsorship and events projects as handled by direct reports.

Education

• Minimum Education: First Degree in Humanities, Social Science or Science discipline
• Masters in Business Administration would be an added advantage
• Professional Memberships: Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM); Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON); National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN); Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).

Experience

Minimum experience – 14 years work experience which includes:

• 8 years marketing experience
• 6 years sponsorships and events experience

With significant experience:

• in negotiating and agency and supplier management
• with budget management and people leadership
• in managing properties and an understanding of the impact and limitations of sponsorships
• in project management
• in analytical reporting

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3). Business Planning and Analytics Manager

Location: Nigeria

JOB OBJECTIVES

• Engage Group Executive and Group Heads to document the Division’s strategy document and decompose the strategy into critical quantitative operational metrics
• Design and build business performance operational metrics and analytics leveraging intelligent analytics tools to monitor strategy implementation for the Division covering technology, digital innovation, and banking services for Nigeria and African subsidiaries
• Prepare and publish high-quality reports for the GE for CEO monthly briefing meetings and Board Committee meetings
• Prepare and publish high-quality performance reports for the divisions monthly and quarterly performance meetings (MPR)
• Design and implement a system for tracking and dashboarding the status of agreed priority initiatives across various units in the Division and working closely with
• GE and GHs to ensure the timely execution of strategy
• Conduct both local and global research on banking and technology transformation trends and produce high-quality insights/recommendations
• Serve as a single point of contact for Division-wide programs/initiatives e.g. CSR, Employee engagement programs, etc.
• Take initiative to monitor trends and highlight useful trends that will require taking action by the Division to improve the performance, and customer engagement, and ultimately increase the profitability of the Bank.
• Support Group Executive and take on specific responsibilities as may be assigned to GE from time to time.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES

• Coordinate strategic activities for the Office of GE Technology, Digital Innovation & Services to strengthen relationships within the bank and with various stakeholders
• Coordinate the efficiency efforts of the GE Technology, Digital Innovation & Services for maximum impact
• Assist in preparing Board papers, speeches and presentations, etc, on behalf of GE Technology, Digital Innovation & Services, and follow up on implementation of Board directives
• Generate periodic reports for the attention of the GE Technology, Digital Innovation & Services
• Collaborate with departments and teams on improvement initiatives
• Coordinate Technology and operations support for African subsidiaries
• Participate in strategic planning activities of the directorate and monitor implementation of strategic initiatives
• Develop capex and opex budget for the offoce of GE Technology & Services
• Coordinate annual budgeting process for the directorate
• Monitor and analyse budget performance for the directorate
• Follow up on action items/activities with relevant Technology & Services departments to ensure necessary action is taken
• Build Interactive Power BI Dashboards

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Minimum Education: First Degree in any related discipline. Higher degrees and relevant professional certificates (added advantage).

Experience

• Minimum experience: 6 years relevant experience covering business planning and data analytics experience.
• Use of SQL for scripting and data visualization and analytics e.g. PowerBI etc

Deadline: Not Stated

How to Apply: Interested applicants should use the links below to apply:

• Relationship Manager – Public Sector
• Head, Sponsorship, Partnerships, Events & Collaboration
• Business Planning and Analytics Manager