About the Role
The Dangote Group, one of Africa's most diversified business conglomerates, seeks a Business Initiatives Lead to drive strategic governance and operational excellence. Based at our Lagos headquarters, you will oversee the integrity and delivery of our internal strategic improvement portfolio, ensuring disciplined execution and verified benefits realisation across all organisational functions.
Key Responsibilities- Maintain and govern the improvement initiative portfolio registers, ensuring current, complete, and accurate status tracking of all active work
- Manage intake and governance gates, confirming each initiative has defined sponsors, owners, milestones, benefits cases, risks, and dependencies before approval
- Monitor portfolio status, identify at-risk initiatives early, and escalate to the Head of Business Excellence with clear assessments
- Verify benefits realisation against commitments made at approval, engaging the CFO for financial validation
- Ensure lessons learned and close-out evidence are documented before completion
- Support Initiative Leads with project management expertise, tools, and cross-functional facilitation
- Prepare comprehensive portfolio health reports for executive leadership covering status, benefits, overdue actions, and risks
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline
- Minimum 7 years' experience in programme/portfolio management, business improvement, or operational excellence
- Proven experience in refining, petrochemicals, or comparable heavy industrial environments
- Demonstrated expertise managing improvement portfolios across multiple functions with benefits tracking and governance
- Financial acumen to validate and interrogate benefit cases confidently
- Excellent written communication; ability to produce clear, structured portfolio reports and escalation documentation
- Strong facilitation and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience with external benchmarking programmes (Solomon or equivalent) is advantageous