Bayo Imam

General Workload

• Spearheaded successful business development initiatives aligned with company's strategy and core competencies.
• Focused teams on developing innovative and cutting-edge approaches with effective resource allocation and strategic planning.
• Moving the business forward, providing vision, inspiration and professionalism of the highest standard
• Create and Manage sustainable and profitable relationship with clients and stakeholders
• Delegated assignments based on plans, project needs and knowledge of individual team members.
• Manage the brand effectively
• Create, maintain and develop business policies and strategies within the company
• Create and maintain an environment where all management and employees develop and excel
• Ensure all departments achieve profit targets, maintain margins and control expenses as detailed in budgets and business plans
• Ensure that overheads, costs and expenses are minimized by carefully controlling and utilizing all resources effectively.
• Developed and Monitored office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
• Hired and directed teams to achieve daily and long-term operations and business goals.

Projects handled

• Development of an Electronic Process Management System for ME Solutions in the Cashew value chain, with Olam International as a key stakeholders.
• Development and deployment of a cloud based real estate process management application for the management, coordination and sale of property (shops/stalls/stands/land) for the Utako Bus Terminal and Ultramodern Market Development.
• Deployment & Implementation Of Tertiary Education Information Management System as a SaaS using Odoo ERP
• Project managed the development of a mobile app for ALC Finance

General Works Description

• Found a gap in the real estate market and started a real estate company with a finessed team for building, finishing and furnishing, with a primary focus on building smart homes
• Managed construction schedules to achieve adequate project labor coverage.
• Scheduled workforce needs with superintendents and allocated company resources to meet project requirements.
• Achieved optimization by analyzing material and labor costs.
• Formulated quality assurance and safety standards to comply with construction plans.
• Developed and executed pre-construction milestones on project schedule.
• Consulted with clients to define objectives and develop scopes.
• Communicated daily with vendors to keep project fully operational.
• Thoroughly reviewed material proposals and negotiated contracts.
• Reviewed project scope, required materials and labor pricing to develop competitive bids.

Some Projects Handled

• Building, Finishing and Furnishing of a 4 Bedroom luxury duplex in Guzape, Abuja.
• Building, Finishing and Furnishing of a 3 Bedroom bungalow in Jimeta, Yola.
• Finishing and furnishing of over 20 houses in and around Abuja.
• Building, Finishing and Furnishing of the Chicken Cottage quick service restaurant franchise in Abuja and Yola.
• Construction and Finishing of Ladela Schools 4512 sqm classroom building in Apo, Abuja

General Works

• Find new businesses and coordinate client related services
• Developed and managed media relations for the company’s clients
• Built a network of third party vendors and managed their activities to carter to the needs from our clients

Tasks undertaken

• Management of relationship with Shelter Afrique
• Develop, manage and coordinate all online activities for Shelter Afrique for 7 years. including the development of their main website, Intranet communication platform and SHAF Center of Excellence online presence
• Manage and coordinated media and communications consultation 7 AGM events, under the Shelter Afrique contract
• Manage Design and coordinate print and publications for clients

Managing all the business, technical and corporate affairs of the 7 sub-companies of Hole 19 Group

Zakaa Luxury Concept

• Managing High Net-worth customers on a daily basis
• Increased sales by over 50% in 6 months by conceptualizing, designing and building luxury boutique; ZAKAA, in Abuja, Lagos, Port-Harcourt and Uyo

Topstar Publishing

• Published possibly the best luxury lifestyle magazine franchise in Nigeria; Sur la Terre
• And later morphed that into an indigenous publication, now titled ZAKAA

Topstar Logistics

• Handled logistics for Julius Berger Nigeria, PW Construction, Nettetal Luxury, e.t.c on a monthly basis

Hole19 Sports

• Pushed to make the company the number one supplier of golf equipment in Nigeria
• Organized a few Golf and Polo tournaments in Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Port-Harcourt and Uyo

Hole19 Branding

• Handled the management of all client brand specific works.
• Clients included Julius Berger Nigeria, NNPC, IBB Golf Club, Lagos Polo Club, MTN and a few others.

EasyScreen Africa

• Introduced a new type of portable branding equipment into the Nigerian market by entering a franchise agreement with EasyScreen America
• Products were used by NNPC, MTN, Transcorp Hilton Hotels, Le’ Meridien Hotels, IBB Golf Club, Polo and Country clubs across Nigeria and an array of top establishments all around the country

ExtraTime

• Managed top level franchise agreement and relationship management with international luxury brands for ZAKAA Luxury Concepts
• Brands included Brioni, Parmigiana, Perellet, IWC Schaffhausen, Bedat & co, Piaget, Edox, Frank Vila, Richard Mille, Audemars Piguet, Breguet, Patek Philipe, Buben & Zorweg, Frederique Constant, Vacheron Constantin, Mont Blanc, Hautlence, Herzong, Urwerk and Vertu
• Staff and welfare management
• Creation and implementation of ideas that would effectively run and promote the company

• Editor in Chief of Sur la Terre Magazine (West African Franchise)
• Led a team of 12 member in the publishing of various publications, such as the AGM Report for Julius Berger Nigeria Limited
• Team Leader and Project Manager in the design and publication of Luxury Lifestyle Magazines for Zakaa Luxury Concept

• Technical support for all online transactions products that the bank offers their corporate clients
• Technical support for development and implementation the banks corporate online payment platform (Stanbic's new Business Online [nBoL])
• Team member in the development and implementation of the 2-factor authentication for all the banks internet banking users
• Monitoring online transactions and Preparing of daily and weekly report for online transactions for all corporate clients of the bank.

• Managing and organizing the car rental services
• Using Information technology to support the staff
• Brand management for the company
• Seek out new ways to increase and develop business opportunities, new and additional travel products and to work towards maintaining the car dealership and company’s competitive edge.

• Research on the Federal Inland Revenue Services Data gathering of all running business in the north-west region
• Creation and full system analysis of an onsite data entry system and online backup system for the entry and retrieval of data remotely.

• Designed, implemented and monitored web pages, plugins and functionality for continuous improvement.
• Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript coding.
• Oversaw back-end development using Java to maintain website integrity, security and efficiency.
• Conducted testing and review of website design for responsiveness, clarity and effectiveness.
• Implemented website maintenance, content management, updates and security resource tutorials to assist end-user training.