Augustine Ogee

Business Development and Strategic Leadership

• Maintaining current client relationships and identifying potential clients, developing new business relationships.
• Developing new sales areas and leveraging creative approaches to improve sales.
• Design and implement new strategies to drive the business within Nigeria and across Africa.
• Conduct market sizing analysis to identify new business relationships and prospective market growth areas.
• Lead the implementation of business expansion projects such as to scale commercial production.
• Oversee the sales and account teams to ensure sales requirements and business needs are met.
• Developing business relationships for the following new ventures: CVE Farms (Head, Business Development and Strategy)

• Development of sales and growth strategies to ensure profitability of the venture

• Mine and maintain customer relationships for the venture to enhance repeat business

• Reviews and oversees business processes and optimization of resources.

FC Bethel International (Acting Chief Operating Officer)

• Development of strategic plan for revenue purposes

• Manage human resources in the academy including monitoring players development, trainings and transfers

• Development of new and manage existing relationships with international academies and football clubs

Business Leadership and Oversight

• Oversee daily operations of the company and the work of respective executive teams- Technology, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance etc.
• Establish and communicate policies, model behaviours that promote company’ vision and culture.
• Project the company’s brand through professional conduct to attract the right talent and partnerships Strategy and Business Development
• Designed and implemented retail and corporate business strategy for Oya.com in alignment with business objectives of market penetration, customer acquisition, revenue growth and market leadership.
• Led strategy sessions with sales and operations team leads across the organization to ensure clear communication of strategic objectives.
• Proposed co-branding and leveraging on Wakanow travel centre locations nationwide to cross sell Oya’s products as part of winning retail sales strategy.
• Conducted pilot and preliminary market testing of newly developed products and solutions before full roll out
• Co-designed business plan and financial model of Transport Integrated Management Solutions (TIMS) to define operational success and sustainability of innovative B2B product solution in the bus service industry.
• Secured major partnerships and developing relationships with key organizations to boost our brand visibility and revenue in the Youth Market(Tenece, NANS, RCCG etc).
• Reviewed (in collaboration with Legal team) and negotiate contract negotiation of bus operators to ensure alignment with business revenue and pricing model.

Sales Management

• Developed and present sales pitch to prospective corporate clients, follow up strategically and ensure to convert.
• Led and build sales team (recruitment), and manage responsibility accounting nationwide.
• Set overall sales targets and overall sales plan, cascade to respective team leads and drive to ensure execution.
• Monitored performance of respective sales teams and sales outlets by establishing system reports.
• Generate sales leads creatively, cold call to build robust business opportunities for the company.
• Customer Relationship Management.
• Deepened existing strategic client relationships and turn into increased business for the company such as partnership with AXA Mansard to rollout travel insurance for Oya customers.
• Provided oversight for sales and operations teams activities to maintain clear communication and alignment with company’s customer service policies and ensure exceptional service delivery during fulfillment of all customer segments.

Product Development/ Marketing Management

• Led customized product development activities and proposal development to meet specific customer needs.
• Designed marketing programmes and execution plans consistently in line with current trends and new seasons and liaise with Wakanow for execution.
• Led and directed online marketing activities by the team to ensure brand visibility is attained.
• Conducted business data analysis to evaluate marketing activities to ensure achievement of desired results.

• Design and implementation of a new debt collection strategy that improved revenue in my first 45 days of resumption at Rocket Internet.
• Fostered the design and implementation of hanging revenue for Rocket Internet (LAMUDI) as Nigeria emerge 2nd highest in the Global report for Africa with the group.
• Coordination of revenue operations and preparation of revenue reports for five venture firms (Hellofood, Lamudi, Easytaxi, Kaymu & Jovago) to the respective venture’s Managing Director.
• Set-up new customers in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Tracked and posted payments for (Hellofood, Lamudi, Carmudi, Kaymu & Jovago); and reconciliation of customer statements to correct discrepancies.
• Liaison with management to ensure promotional activities is being carried out for venture partners.
• Assumed the position of a Key Accounts Manager with Hellofood in order to recover debts hanging since over 2013 and achieved a high debt collection while developing key relationships.
• Daily postings to QuickBooks Accounting software & Navision Accounting software.

• Prepared documentations for supplier’s payment taking into consideration all relevant deductions.
• Preparation of monthly payroll of employees, payables/creditors monitoring plan and treasury management.
• Managed communication with suppliers and creditors to ensure effective pricing, and bargaining.

• Facilitated over 300 presentations for a special Sales/Revenue project in 60 days with a team of 5 secured over 100,000 unique followers for the project in 60 days and enlisted over 250 new businesses on Vconnect search directory within my first 2 months of appointment as Sales Ambassador.
• Managed client complaints and ensuring prompt feedback via face-to-face interactions, call centre calls & emails.
• Sourced for prospective clients and designed winning proposals to pitch and enlist on Vconnect business directory.
• Brand projection, customer sign-on and popularity quest for special Flash to Follow project

• Sourced and mapped out regions to prospect for new clients, and assisted sales unit in handling customers’ requests.
• Deployment as a special assistant for a new product line (Life Style Condom).
• Created and stimulated demand for organizations’ newest product line.