Commercial Director
Sabi
Sales & Business Development
Lagos, Nigeria
Posted on Jul 29, 2025
About Us
Founded with a solutions oriented approach to solving commercial challenges, Sabi has grown to become a significant player in global supply chain services, focusing on the processes involved in the sourcing and distribution of physical goods and commodities across diverse global markets. We blend innovative technology with intuition to create solutions to support supply chain management, sustainability and compliance, and financial services. It goes beyond conventional service provision, serving as a dynamic tool for the growth of retail merchants, exporters, aggregators, distributors, importers, and manufacturers. Through Sabi's technology rails, businesses not only navigate challenges but expand their capabilities and reach on a global scale.
Core Values
- User Focus – Always focused on building the best solutions for our users
- Big minds - Innovate. Think big. Be open.
- Always Deliver - Do the work. Be accountable. Collaborate.
- Be Kind - Be considerate. Life is stressful enough.
- Keep it Simple - Strip it down. Get to the essence.
Job Description
About Sabi
Sabi exists to transform the way the world sources African commodities. We unlock the full potential of African trade by empowering informal merchants with the infrastructure, technology, financing, and services they need to scale and meet global demand.
Our mission is to bring transparency, reliability, and efficiency to fragmented commodity supply chains — connecting global buyers directly with the most qualified commodity producers on the continent.
We do this by offering an end-to-end operating system for trade — built for Africa’s realities but designed to meet or exceed global standards. Sabi helps merchants, traders, and buyers move goods faster, finance growth, ensure quality, and unlock opportunity—even amid political or market uncertainty.
Our mission is to bring transparency, reliability, and efficiency to fragmented commodity supply chains — connecting global buyers directly with the most qualified commodity producers on the continent.
We do this by offering an end-to-end operating system for trade — built for Africa’s realities but designed to meet or exceed global standards. Sabi helps merchants, traders, and buyers move goods faster, finance growth, ensure quality, and unlock opportunity—even amid political or market uncertainty.
Job Summary
Do you lead with commercial rigor, strategic clarity, and a bias for scale? As a Commercial Director, you’ll be the architect and executor of Sabi’s commercial strategy for Materials and Specialty Alloys. You will work closely with all key stakeholders to align business goal, execution, supply chain infrastructure and ensure every part of the business delivers measurable impact at scale.
What you will be doing
- Develop and execute commercial strategies to drive revenue growth.
- Lead global off-take, pricing, and strategic partnerships for specialty alloys and critical materials
- Lead cross-functional teams to launch new materials products or services.
- Identify market trends, customer needs, and competitor activity.
- Build and maintain relationships with key customers, partners, and stakeholders.
- Negotiate contracts, pricing, and agreements.
- Analyze market data to inform commercial decisions.
- Collaborate with R&D, sales, and marketing teams.
Requirements
Special Skills and Qualifications
- 15+ yrs in specialty alloys (e.g., vanadium, titanium, high-nickel steels)
- Strong exposure to critical materials (e.g., niobium, cobalt) that feed alloy manufacturing
- Commercial leadership experience across industrial metals provides a pricing, trading, and logistics is an edge
- Experience in downstream value chains (e.g., aerospace, defense, energy, EV supply)
- Has structured high-value offtake or tolling deals across multiple geographies
- Commercial rigor- Negotiation credibility- Global fluency- Clean-tech exposure- Structured communicator
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Demonstrated curiosity, drive, and a growth mindset
Candidate Specification
- Motivated by the mission of Sabi
- Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
- Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
- High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
- A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
- Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself.
Why Join Sabi
At Sabi, we’re more than a company—we’re a movement. Join a team of bold thinkers, builders, and doers working to reshape the future of global trade. We work at the edge of innovation in technology, commerce, and sustainability—and we do it with heart. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help build the infrastructure that powers responsible trade in Africa and beyond, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Process:
- Prescreening with the Talent team
- Interviews and Case Assessments with the Hiring team.
- Follow up interviews with Sabi Leadership team.
- Hiring Decision
Benefits
- Rapid Career Growth
- Annual Training Budget
- Robust Health Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Fully-funded Team Bonding Activities