Company Info
Large organization
200 + Employees
Bolt
Bolt (previously known as Taxify) stands out as a rapidly expanding global startup, boasting a user base of over 30 million satisfied customers spanning across 30+ countries, encompassing Europe, Mexico, and Africa. Our mission is to create a revolutionary ride-hailing app that unites millions of riders and drivers worldwide, streamlining travel, enhancing speed, and ensuring utmost reliability.
1). Local Communication Manager
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Department: Marketing
Responsibilities
Your daily adventures will include:
- Creating and maintaining good relationships with journalists, responding to media inquiries
- Writing press releases and pitching news stories to the media
- Preparing spokespeople and staffing interviews and press events
- Overseeing the creation of all necessary marketing materials in Nigeria, including suggesting ideas and writing copy for ads, social media posts, blog articles and print materials
- Supporting performance marketing and campaigns, driving growth for our products in Nigeria
- Reaching out to other brands with attractive partnership offers and executing partnership campaigns with other brands or events
- Creating proactive plans for PR and marketing in Nigeria with other local stakeholders to ensure a constant positive news flow about Bolt in-country
- Delivering and measuring the results for PR engagements and local marketing campaigns
- Other miscellaneous tasks, including supporting employer branding-related activities, ad-hoc driver engagement events and managing crisis communications when needed
Requirements
We are looking for:
- 4 years of relevant experience in Marketing and PR
- Experience in drafting PR materials and working with journalists
- Experience in running marketing activities, including social media management and offline marketing campaigns
- Strong written and spoken communication, including great copywriting skills
- Capability to collaborate with many different stakeholders, experience in an international environment is a plus
- Good understanding of which marketing and PR activities work on the local market
- Flawless written and spoken English, with other African languages being a plus
- Good project management and reporting skills
- Basic experience with Figma and other design tools is a plus
Why you’ll love it here:
- Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.
- Impact millions of customers and partners in 500+ cities across 45 countries.
- Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.
- Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
- Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.
- Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid mode.
- Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Regional Manager, North & West Africa
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Description
- We are looking for a Regional Manager to lead our Bolt Ride Hailing Operations in North and West Africa.
- You will be responsible for leading the region, developing and nurturing critical stakeholder relationships that will grow our business, strengthening our market position, staff management, engagement and retention.
About the Role
- This strategic role will coordinate with and report to the Regional Director for Africa & International Markets.
- The role will have three direct reports, country managers for Tunisia, Nigeria and Ghana. This is a critical, impactful and highly rewarding role. Location preference for this role is Lagos, Nigeria or Accra, Ghana.Our team is made up of thinkers, innovators and go-getters shaping the way millions of people move around the globe.
- We value passionate and down-to-earth people who are driven to get things done and find creative solutions to problems. We recognise that our strength and success are directly linked to the talent and skills of our team members and a lean approach to our work. Our headquarters are situated in Tallinn, Estonia and we have offices in 45+ countries including Tunisia, Nigeria and Ghana.
About the Role
Your daily adventures will include:
- Lead the regional financial and strategic planning process.
- Design, implement and optimise regional business and operational strategies/goals with Country Managers.
- Oversee regional P&L delivery against set KPIs to make sure we are creating the biggest possible impact with our investments and maintaining operational efficiency.
- Lead monthly and/or quarterly regional business reviews.
- Operationalize key growth initiatives and/or best practices across the region.
- Maintain a pulse on the local competition and industry to help steer and advise our strategic plans.
- Understand regional needs, opportunities and regulations.
- Build and grow local teams.
- Advise and closely collaborate with HQ teams such as Product, Legal or Marketing to develop and execute key initiatives.
- Set and implement expansion strategy for North and West Africa region, in collaboration with the Expansion team & relevant HQ teams.
About You
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- You have 7+ years of experience in an operations management or general management.
- You have a proven track record of delivering results in a regional, cross-functional, high-growth, and fast-paced environment.
- You are a strong leader and collaborator with excellent negotiation and communication skills (both verbal and written).
- You have experience building relationships with leaders & peers, anticipating their concerns and successfully advocating for your priorities.
- You are a hustler, not stopping after several obstacles a day.
- You are highly analytical and have a data-driven mindset with experience reporting on business metrics, trends and using data to drive decision making.
- You are passionate about new technologies and ridesharing.
- You have a strong sense of ownership with a hands-on approach.
- Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!
Why you’ll love it here:
- Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.
- Impact millions of customers and partners in 500+ cities across 45 countries.
- Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.
- Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
- Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.
- Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid mode.
- Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
- N.B: Some perks may differ depending on your location.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Country Sales Manager
Location: Lagos
Department: Bolt Business
Job Brief
- We’re looking for hungry and ambitious Country ​Sales Managers​ to join Bolt Business. You’ll be leading the growth of the country, managing the sales team, owning the go-to-market strategy and closing and winning the biggest deals.
- We’re looking for a driven individual, a real hunter with experience of B2B selling who can turbo charge and drive the success of Bolt Business team for the market.
- We need a superstar with a history of great results, is excellent at team management and knows how to deliver rapid growth.
- You’ll need to be driven, confident and ambitious. We’re moving quickly and this is an exciting role, one with great scope for growth and impact. If you’ve worked in high growth B2B sales and you want to win big, then let’s talk.
Job Description
Your daily adventures will include:
- Managing your sales team, you’ll be leading a mix of business development managers, business specialists and account managers – coaching, developing and driving them to meet the country goals
- Negotiating and closing deals with the biggest companies, you’ll lead the line for your market working Tier1 deals, showing the team how it’s done
- Planning & strategy, you’ll own the go-to-market strategy, you’ll plan who’s doing what, projected P&L and what your market and team will achieve
- Recruit and build your team, we’re growing fast and you’ll need to build a winning team with help from our recruitment team
- Coaching & Training your team, you’ll be mentoring and improving them every day, performance managing them and taking them to new levels and developing their careers at Bolt
- Achieve growth and smash country sales targets, you’ll drive your team to success – hit and beating targets and bringing success for the country
- Build and promote strong customer relationships with the biggest clients and government bodies, you’ll own the essential connections, relationships and networks in your mark
- Managing your own sales pipeline, you’ll be building a pipeline of the biggest companies and opportunities
- Work closely and give market feedback to the product team regarding Bolt Business solutions and how we should develop – you’ll be seeing and hearing what businesses need, so you’ll be an essential voice to our product teams
- Present sales and revenue forecasts to the management team. It’s your market, so you’ll be able to inform and update the management team on your progress and successes Identify emerging markets, opportunities and market shifts.
- You’ll have your finger on the pulse of the industry and what our competition are doing.
- You’ll be spotting shifts, opportunities and changes and making sure we respond and take steps when we need to Identify and remove blockers.
- You’ll spot blockers to growth, identify solutions and implement them
Requirements
We are looking for:
- Candidates should possess a BS/MS Degree in Business Administration or a related field
- 4+ years experience in fast paced B2B Sales, with at least 2+ years managing sales teams
- A leader, who can motivate a team and drive results from the front, you’ll close deals and you’ll drive the team to do the same
- History of negotiating and closing Tier 1 and Tier 2 deals, ideally selling a service into the SME / Large business sectors
- Be a hunter, with a history of hitting ambitious targets and thrive on sales and smashing targets
- A CRM master, able to analyse the data to maximise the activities of your team
- Experience coaching, mentoring and performance managing team members
- Excellent communication skills in both English and local language , with a strong personality
- Strong business sense and industry expertise of selling B2B business services into large businesses
- A born negotiator, able to navigate contracts and blockers to get deals closed
- Organised, process driven, with a great knowledge of sales techniques in B2B sales.
- Strong business sense and industry expertise of selling business services into SME and large businesses.
- Experience on-boarding clients and account management would be advantageous.
- Be an owner and proactively find solutions to business problems.
Benefits
Why you’ll love it here:
- Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.
- Impact millions of customers and partners in 500+ cities across 45 countries.
- Make your mark at one of the fastest-growing organisations in Europe.
- Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.
- Accelerate your professional growth and enjoy unique career opportunities.
- Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.
- Enjoy health care coverage, and plenty of other perks.*Some perks may differ depending on your location.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:
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