Sales & Marketing

Senior Sales Lead

HR-EX Consulting·Lagos, nigeria·Full Time·Contract
Sales & MarketingFull TimeContract
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Job Summary

  • We are seeking an experienced and commercially driven Senior Sales Lead to drive B2B revenue growth and commercial performance.
  • The role will combine hands-on business development with team leadership, focusing on pipeline generation, key-account growth, deal closure, gross profit, collections and consistent sales execution.

Key Responsibilities

  • Carry and deliver a direct personal revenue, gross-profit and collections target while owning the performance of the B2B team against its signed-off targets.
  • Independently originate and close major opportunities, leading deals from origination through qualification, technical/commercial development, proposal, negotiation, contract/PO and collection follow-through.
  • Identify and execute cross-selling opportunities across lighting, HVAC, lifts/escalators, electrical/building systems and related offerings.
  • Own tenders, proposals and major commercial submissions assigned to the role, coordinating internal technical and commercial inputs.
  • Maintain disciplined follow-through on collections and customer commitments, working with Finance where required.
  • Directly manage the B2B team: set expectations, review individual performance, coach execution, assign accounts/opportunities, remove blockers and hold the team accountable for revenue quality and commercial discipline.
  • Lead the B2B team across developers, architects, MEP consultants, contractors, corporate clients, institutional buyers and other relevant segments.
  • Allocate and govern B2B territories, strategic accounts and opportunity ownership, ensuring clear account plans, relationship maps, pipeline coverage and no ambiguity over who owns each opportunity.
  • Run the B2B pipeline and forecast cadence, challenge opportunity quality, remove stale pipeline, and defend team forecasts with evidence in weekly and monthly reviews.
  • Run the B2B team effectively when the Sales Manager is unavailable, while remaining fully aligned to the Sales Manager and avoiding a parallel or competing commercial structure.
  • Perform other sales and commercial duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree
  • 7 to 10 years of proven B2B or technical sales experience, with evidence of personally originated and closed business.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or directly supervising a B2B sales team, including coaching, target management, pipeline reviews and performance accountability.
  • Track record in HVAC, electrical/building systems, elevators, MEP, construction materials, industrial products, technical distribution, real estate/construction or adjacent sectors is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles involving specifications, tenders, proposals, negotiations and project delivery dependencies.
  • Strong commercial judgement, negotiation skills, relationship management and executive presence.
  • Preferably a female candidate for gender balance.

Key skills

BA/BSc/HND
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At a glance

Company

HR-EX Consulting

Location

Lagos, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Work style

Contract

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 14, 2026

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