Head of Business at Elimu Holdings Limited

Job Description

As the Head of Business, you will be in charge of designing business strategies and managing day-to-day operations to guarantee company efficiency. Our ideal candidate is one who is extremely passionate about business development, operations and “starting up" in general. The person is going to be a part of a closely knit small team of passionate individuals with a single minded focus to scale  a genuinely innovative Edtech learning technology.

He/She is expected to consolidate, accelerate growth, and expand eLimu’s presence and will be responsible for shaping the organizational strategy and directing the rapid expansion plans, whilst building the team, optimizing the existing business, and building new business strategies and models to scale and grow business by X times. She/he will operationalize business excellence, build efficiencies, launch and grow their digital presence and its current active user base.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategy: Building the playbook on how to scale the usage of our products. This will include developing annual, quarterly, and monthly strategic plans. Lead, define, represent and communicate product strategy and vision in line with the businesses long-term goals.
• Business Development: Close strategic opportunities that will expand the reach and visibility of eLimu. Develop executive level relationships, leveraging partners and educational  ecosystem for sales leads and market presence.
• User Acquisition & Retention: Devising strategies for user growth and retention. It will include attracting the right profile of users who will convert to paid long term subscribers.
• Product: Work with the product team to devise marketing experiments, and build growth levers into the product (you should be extremely familiar with A/B testing and CRO). Collaborate with other units to optimize the core business while validating new opportunities for growth.
• Management: Leading and managing a team. You know how to set goals and ensure your team hits them. Build you team from hiring the right growth talent to coaching and empowering your people to improve and outperform.

Qualifications

• Entrepreneural Mindset/Experience
• Understanding of technology and its impact on education sector; ease of learning using technology.
• Be energetic and driven, commercially minded and growth oriented
• A keen desire to achieve targets 
• Five or more years’ of commercial experience in leadership capacity
• You possess deep appreciation of the digital economy and have worked in at least one start-up where you had successfully scaled the business to significance. 
• Solid operational expertise and ability to be hands-on when required. 
• Ability to attract, build and manage a team. 
• Passion & desire to work at a place that seeks BOTH impact and business results, is important. 
• An MBA, product experience while not necessary, are all highly desirable.