Chidinma Obi Sedenu
Head of Strategy @Lekoil Limited
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Strategy @Lekoil Limited
US
Direct report to the CEO. Provide oversight of strategy development and alignment across the organisation. • Lead the strategic management team in the development of long-range strategic plans and objectives through the identification of strategic issues and opportunities that could influence business growth and profitability.• Strategic leadership to the Company’s management toward achieving its mission, vision, and corporate objectives. Short and long-term strategic recommendations to the business’s executives that are meant to develop and capitalize on business opportunities. • Define structure and execute strategic initiatives through the development of work plans, gathering and generation of relevant data, driving analyses, and the development of actionable recommendations. • Evaluate and recommend business portfolio frameworks, strategies, financial concepts, practices, programs, processes, and measures to be applied across the Company. • Engage and support the business on numerous fronts in defining and refining business strategies with a specific focus on designing and implementing new strategic approaches, ideas, and processes that will grow the business and avail measurable results. • Establish, track, and report Key Performance Indicators that the business will measure performance against and determine the effectiveness of the implemented strategies. • Drive awareness and insightful analyses of the market and transaction trends as well as identifies and explore any adjacencies to the business in order to ascertain risks and opportunities. • Define potential business models in order to realize profitability opportunities and also to avail insightful qualitative analyses. • Build analytical models and perform regular financial, competitive, performance, and market analyses for the business in order to comprehensively value business opportunities and ensure well-foundedstrategies are presented to the relevant leadership.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT CHIDINMA OBI SEDENU
Driven leader, international business development, strategy, marketing, and engineering professional with 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Graduated from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. Extensive drilling and optimization engineering background, working for both operators and service companies. Ample experience working and presenting technically advanced equipment and solutions. Offshore, deep-water experience in Nigeria & Gulf of Guinea, Brazil, Egypt, Gulf of Mexico. Onshore, hard-rock, extended-reach laterals experience in Peru, Saudi Arabia, US Land. Customer-centric approach that fosters frequent and direct contact with customers. Matured relationships with all customer types: International, Independent, National, and Indigenous Oil Companies, pertinent government officials and potential strategic partners. Developed in-depth customer profiles and value propositions.Keen understanding of the competitive environment. Skilled in obtaining and acting on market insight from clients, competitors, and regulators. Extracted, compiled and critically analyzed industry-specific data. Ability to respond to the dynamic, fast-changing market. Successful multitasker with a keen eye on meeting critical deadlines. Effective team player, working with multi-functional teams (legal, finance, operations, HR, tax, etc.). Prepare and negotiate highly complex contracts, securing favorable commercial, risk allocation and legal terms. Strong willingness to learn quickly and scale steep learning curves.Water safety advocate. After a near-drowning incident, she founded My Freedom From Fear, a company that provides training to help adults overcome their fear of deep water, learn to swim and to self-rescue. Philanthropist. She co-founded The Gamesville Foundation, an award-winning non-profit that provides recreation and aid to humans that are onset by hardship, old age, loneliness, or disability in Nigeria. Leveraging its corporate and individual networks, the foundation has provided more than children with annual school supplies and has raised over 47 Million Naira in scholarships and assistance to orphans and underprivileged children in Nigeria.
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