Job Responsibilities
Business Growth & Commercial Development:
- Develop and execute the growth strategy for energy-enabled services across Husk communities.
- Identify, evaluate, and launch new revenue-generating services leveraging existing energy infrastructure.
- Conduct market assessments to identify customer needs, demand gaps, and commercial opportunities.
- Develop business cases and implementation plans for new products and services.
- Establish partnerships with local entrepreneurs, cooperatives, institutions, and community stakeholders.
- Support expansion of productive-use energy solutions that stimulate local economic development.
Partnership Management:
- Develop and execute a partnership strategy to support the growth and sustainability of Husk's adjacent
- businesses portfolio.
- Identify, negotiate, and manage strategic partnerships with private sector organizations, development
- agencies, financial institutions, government bodies, cooperatives, and community-based organizations.
- Establish and manage commercial agreements, partnership frameworks, and joint implementation plans.
- Leverage partnerships to unlock new revenue streams, customer acquisition channels, financing
- opportunities, and market access.
- Monitor partnership performance against agreed objectives and ensure delivery of partnership
- commitments.
- Maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and represent Husk in relevant industry, community, and
- ecosystem engagements.
Energy Services Portfolio Management:
- Manage the performance of all existing energy services and productive-use businesses.
- Monitor revenue, profitability, utilization, and customer adoption across service lines.
- Optimize pricing, operating models, and service delivery approaches.
- Develop initiatives to improve customer uptake and increase repeat usage.
- Ensure energy services contribute positively to business-level financial performance.
Operations & Service Delivery:
- Coordinate with Operations teams to ensure reliable service delivery and asset availability.
- Develop and implement standard operating procedures for all energy service offerings.
- Monitor equipment performance, inventory levels, maintenance schedules, and operational efficiency.
- Resolve operational issues affecting service quality, availability, or profitability.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, safety standards, and operational controls.
Customer Engagement & Market Development:
- Conduct regular field visits to understand customer needs and usage patterns.
- Engage communities to increase awareness and adoption of energy-enabled services.
- Gather customer feedback and identify opportunities for service improvements.
- Develop customer education and activation initiatives to drive demand.
- Strengthen relationships with community leaders and local stakeholders.
Innovation &New Product Development:
- Identify new productive-use opportunities that increase energy consumption and customer value.
- Evaluate emerging opportunities in e-mobility, agriculture and agro-processing, water services,
- refrigeration, digital services, and rural enterprise development.
- Design and manage pilot programs for new service offerings.
- Monitor pilot performance and recommend scaling strategies.
- Develop a pipeline of commercially viable growth opportunities.
Performance Monitoring & Reporting:
- Own portfolio P& L performance and deliver agreed revenue, margin, utilization, and growth targets.
- Develop annual business plans, budgets, forecasts, and investment cases for adjacent business initiatives.
- Track revenue, gross margin, utilization, customer adoption, impact and profitability metrics.
- Prepare weekly and monthly business performance reports.
- Monitor budget performance and recommend corrective actions where required.
- Support data-driven decision-making through commercial analysis and performance insights.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, or a related
- discipline.
- 5–8 years of experience in business development, commercial operations, rural energy, and productive-use
- applications, agriculture value chains, or related sectors.
- Experience managing multiple revenue-generating business lines.
- Strong commercial and financial analysis skills.
- Strong project management and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and business reporting tools.
- Experience working in rural or underserved markets is highly desirable.
- Understanding of mini-grids, distributed energy systems, e-mobility, water services, or agricultural
- processing businesses is an advantage.
- Fluency in English is required; Hausa language proficiency is an advantage.
- Willingness to travel extensively across operating communities.
Additional Information:
Location and Travel:
- This role is based in Lafia Nassarawa State, Nigeria, with regular travel to Husk Mini grid and other operational locations.
- Salary: Based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications, salary can be negotiated if required.