Through our mission to become a catalyst for sustainable economic development, you will have an opportunity to directly contribute to the transformation of local companies while being exposed to projects ranging from social impact projects, business restructurations, mergers, due diligences and research. If this is something of interest to you and a fit to your career aspirations, below is our career path to reach your objectives:
BiD supports projects that aim to stimulate the local economy, by building the capacity of local businesses; stimulate their growth, by increasing the level of their activities in the private and public sector. BiD provides market research that highlights new opportunities; provides tools to improve the performance of organizations; and puts in place monitoring and evaluation strategies to measure impact.
Analyst
This is our entry level position best suited to fresh graduates with less than two (2) years of work experience.
- They are responsible for project deliverables and are involved in the direct follow up with the leaders of client companies.
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly reviews and analyses of current processes using operational metrics and reports
- Conduct insightful, ad hoc analyses to investigate ongoing or one-time operational issues
- They are responsible for the research and analysis of data.
- Initiate and build relationships with customers through phone, marketing mailer campaigns, in-person contacts, and presentations.
Associate
After 1-3 years, our analysts become associates where they are involved with more high level assignments; and they work directly with the client business leadership.
- Conduct market research and analysis to create marketing initiatives for promoting company’s products.
- Coordinate appointments, meetings and calls between customers and senior management for business expansions and new opportunities.
- Assist BiD in creating business plan, business model, project budget and scope of work
- Assist participating companies in creating business plan, business model, project budget and scope of work
- They own multiple projects at the same time.
- They are responsible for the research and analysis of data.
Manager
Although we encourage internal promotions, we also welcome experienced professionals who have consulting or typical managerials backgrounds.
- He’s the Head Orchestre of business implementation and operations.
- He or she is responsible for making certain that necessary work is done properly and on time, a grasp of details of the business details is necessary.
- Coordinate with internal teams to develop and implement new marketing and customer acquisition strategies
- Incorporates Company standards of excellence into daily work to foster a Total Quality environment and demonstrates personal commitment to excellence
- Implementation and Operations
- Responsible for overall profitability ratios for assigned business unit
- Incorporates Company standards of excellence into daily work to foster a Total Quality environment and demonstrates personal commitment to excellence
- Coaching and mentorship, business development
Lead
Overall responsible for competitive advantage position for BiD
- Design competitive business strategies in the industry
- Design and proposed new and competitive new tools and
- Update to date best practices, technologies and approaches in the industry
- Directs team of managers and supervisors in resource allocation, personnel decisions and business priorities
Director
- They provide the technical and strategic insights to the CEO.
- They make things happen, put together the resources to support the company and take the products and services to the marketplace
- They are responsible to bring new business deals to the company.
- They are responsible to ensure the operations and execution of the strategies are done smoothly through the Managers and Leads.
- They play a key role in institutional and government relations management.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
The founding CEO, as the visionary, works with the directors to bring onboard the right innovation and services. His main responsibility is to ensure harmony within the different business units.
BiD Internship Program
This is a flagship program we are very proud of seeing its first results this year. The program is designed to be a global immersive experience for both Malian and international business aspiring candidates.
This is a great opportunity for you to deep dive into a selected local business’s model of operations and be part of their transformation journey.
Role Description
- Perform data collection and analysis for BiD
- Perform market analysis and research on participating companies’ competition
- Take part in the training and networking events with client companies hosted by BiD.
- Support internal team’s effort towards business development and operations
- Propose supports ranging from implementing strategies to market research to help companies draft transformational business plans.
Profile of candidates
- Educational background relevant to business management, marketing and communications, engineering, IT etc.
- Less than 1 year of work experience.
- Graduated within the last 2 years or graduating this year.
- Excellent writing and speaking of the french and english languages.
- Good in making presentations from research and data gathering.
- Comfortable working in remote areas such as onsite in the mine.
Benefits:
- Competitive stipend
- Great deal of coaching from BiD senior team
- Opportunity to work with multiple companies at once
- Exposure to Malian local business leaders and understand the real challenges they face.
- Cross departmental learning opportunities.
- Due to the nature of close collaboration with the assigned companies, our interns can either be hosted by the companies or by BiD.
Recruitment Process
Each internship cohort will be unique. We ought to have a diversified cohort of interns with different backgrounds. By doing so, we can ensure that our client companies receive the best support and the interns get the best experience possible.
Each year we seek to host
six (6) interns in the program. We aim to receive our most competitive candidates from our partner schools and from mouth to ear recommendations through reputation.
We have built partnerships with a target of universities starting from here in Mali. Once a year, during our recruitment season, we receive a proposed list of candidates from the schools that have already been vetted.
- Open Application & Recommendation
Whether you read about us or you get to know us through a friend, we will be happy to receive your application because we know that we need the best candidates to make the best out of this experience.
All applications are received through our website (portal) for the first screening. Pre-selected candidates will be interviewed in person or over video call.
The full selection process should take about
8-10 weeks to complete. Upon successful completion, you will receive a letter of acceptance by email.
Duration
The internship program is for a minimum period of 6 months and a maximum period of 12 months.
At the end of the internship program, interns can either be hired directly by one of the participating companies or by BiD depending on a match.