Head of Corporate Engineering

Job Description:  Hajoca Corporation is the largest privately-held wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating & cooling, and industrial supplies in the United States. Our success is rooted in a deeply decentralized operating model: local Profit Centers are empowered to make decisions close to their customers and markets.  We are building an enterprise Data and Analytics function and seeking a Director, Data and Analytics to lead it. This role owns Hajoca's data end to end: the enterprise data warehouse, data engineering and pipelines, governance, quality, analytics, reporting, and the application of AI to that data. The existing data team, including the data warehouse and data engineering, reports into this role from day one. You will set the vision, build out the team, and stand up the enterprise capabilities that let Hajoca treat data and AI as durable advantages, while respecting and amplifying the local autonomy that defines us.  The function serves multiple business verticals, including our core Plumbing, HVAC, and Specialty businesses, and a broad set of corporate functions including Finance, People Operations, Legal, Vendor Management, and Product and Cost. Finance is the closest early partner: the foundation has to be trustworthy enough that Finance relies on it without keeping a second set of books.  This role reports to the Head of Information Technology, and partners with the broader IT organization on the underlying platform and infrastructure these capabilities run on.   The Mandate Hajoca needs a single source of truth. Today the same question can return different answers depending on who asks and where they look. The destination is one authoritative data foundation across our core master data domains, product, customer, vendor, profit center, and location, surfaced through one pane of glass that gives every function the same correct answer to the same question.  That foundation has to be three things at once. Authoritative, so the numbers are right. Usable, so anyone from corporate leadership to a Profit Center Manager can interrogate the data and understand the answer. Trusted, so people actually use it to make decisions. Whether someone pulls a published report or asks an ad-hoc question, they get a correct, understandable answer, regardless of who they are or how they ask.  Getting there is the job. It runs through master data management, common definitions, data quality, and a governance model that holds, paired with analytics and reporting the field will trust. We are looking for someone energized by building that, not just operating it   As Director, you will:  Drive Strategy and Business Value * * Define and execute the multi-year vision, strategy, and operating model for Hajoca's Data and Analytics function. * Build the data foundation into a driver of better decisions across the business: pricing, inventory and working capital, customer retention, and M&A integration. * Partner with Finance first. Establish the foundation as the trusted basis for financial reporting and analysis, then extend that trust to the rest of the enterprise. * Develop the business case, budget, and roadmap that secure executive and business support for the function's growth. Oversee Data Governance & the Single Source of Truth * * Establish and lead the enterprise data governance program: data ownership, stewardship, quality standards, master data management across the core domains (product, customer, vendor, profit center, location), and policies for access, privacy, and security. * Define common definitions, metrics, and KPIs that are trusted across a decentralized business, so the same question returns the same answer wherever it is asked, without forcing uniformity where local nuance matters. * Build the semantic and metric layer that makes published reports and ad-hoc queries return consistent, correct results. * Ensure data is AI-ready: well-defined, well-governed, and structured to support analytics, machine learning, and LLM use cases. * * Partner with Legal, Compliance, and People Operations so data practices align with regulatory, contractual, and privacy obligations. Deliver Analytics and reporting * * Deliver enterprise reporting and self-service analytics that serve our National Support Center leadership, division and regional managers, and individual Profit Centers.  * Stand up a transparent intake and prioritization process for analytics and reporting requests, so every vertical and corporate function has a clear, predictable way to request work, track status, and understand how priorities are set. * Treat key analytical assets, dashboards, models, datasets, and APIs, as managed products with owners, users, and roadmaps. Promote Data-Driven Culture and Literacy * * Drive the shift toward data-informed decision-making at every level of Hajoca, from corporate leadership to Profit Center Managers, recognizing that the value of data is realized only when people across the business choose to use it. * Establish enterprise data and AI literacy: role-based training, onboarding, and ongoing enablement that build the skills and confidence for the business to use data in daily work.  * Partner with People Operations and the business to build data fluency into leadership development and manager enablement. Oversee AI and LLM in Analytics and Reporting * * Define and own Hajoca's strategy for applying AI and large language models within analytics and reporting: governance, responsible-AI principles, use-case prioritization, and delivery model, in partnership with IT and the business. * Apply AI and machine learning to analytics, forecasting, segmentation, anomaly detection, and predictive models that strengthen decisions. * Lead the use of LLMs in the analytics stack, natural-language query, conversational BI, automated insight generation, and LLM-assisted self-service, along with the disciplines that make them work: RAG over Hajoca data, prompt engineering, evaluation and model selection, accuracy controls, and cost and performance management. * Establish responsible-AI standards: accuracy benchmarks, human-in-the-loop review, and clear guidance on where AI-generated output can and cannot drive business decisions. Partner with IT and the Business * * Partner with the broader IT organization on the underlying platform and infrastructure, so data is accessible, reliable, and fit for analytical and AI use. * Get maximum value from Hajoca's current foundation, Power BI and the Microsoft data platform, today, while helping decide what tomorrow's architecture needs to be. The current tooling is where we are now, not a settled long-term commitment, and part of this role is to help co-create that future. * Build trusted relationships with Profit Center leadership and NSC teams, working as an enabler rather than a centralizing force. Function as a Team Leader * * Hire, manage, mentor, and grow the team responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of Hajoca’s Data Management strategy.  * Set clear performance expectations and goals for teammates and conduct regular performance evaluations to assess progress and provide feedback. * Successfully complete required safety and compliance training programs as assigned.   * Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.   About You:  * Master's or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related field.  * 10 or more years in data, analytics, or business intelligence, including hands-on building and time leading small teams. * 5 or more years of management experience.   Our ideal candidate will also:  * Have a track record of taking a data and analytics capability from messy or fragmented to trusted and authoritative and tying the work to real business outcomes. * Possess usable technical depth –be comfortable in the data and the tooling, not just managing people who are. * Have experience establishing data governance and master data management, definitions, quality, and ownership, that actually held. * Have experience in a decentralized or federated business, where influence and partnership matter more than top-down authority. * Be familiar with modern BI, analytics, and AI/ML tools sufficiently enough to drive adoption and make architecture calls. Experience with Power BI and the Microsoft data platform is helpful; we are not dogmatic about today's stack. * Have experience presenting to and engaging executive leadership and owners. Possess experience in these preferred areas: * A background in distribution, wholesale, supply chain, or another multi-site B2B operating environment. * Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based capabilities in analytics or business settings, including RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and managing accuracy, cost, and performance trade-offs. * Experience with M&A diligence and post-close data integration. Demonstrate the following leadership characteristics: * Intellectually curious and execution-oriented. A pragmatic builder who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and delivering tangible outcomes while maintaining a clear view of the broader strategic context. * Able to get value out of imperfect data today while building toward ground truth, rather than waiting for the foundation to be perfect before delivering. * Earns credibility with both executive leadership and field operators and moves the organization toward data-informed decisions through influence rather than mandate. * Comfortable navigating ambiguity; balances enterprise standards with local autonomy. * Measures success in business outcomes and in the trust the data foundation earns. * Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business, operational and financial insights into operational efficiencies. * Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels across Hajoca.  * Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and optimize operational efficiencies. * High level of integrity, ethics, and professionalism.

ABOUT US Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.  As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. ABOUT THE ROLE Moniepoint is building innovation hubs at three of Nigeria’s leading universities: Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU). Each hub is a cross-disciplinary platform, open to students from every faculty. The model is cohort-based, industry-connected, and built to produce technical talent ready for the job market, across software engineering, AI, product, data science, robotics, and design. The hubs train students in applied technical skills, connect them to working engineers, product leaders, and founders, and provide a path into industry at Moniepoint, at other technology companies, or through ventures of their own. This is a building role. The hubs are entering their operating phase, and you will own the design of how they run and the teams that run them. WHAT YOU WILL OWN * Programme design. You will design the operating model for all three hubs from the ground up: how cohorts are structured, how learning is sequenced, what “job market-ready” means at each level, and how graduates are assessed and certified. This is not adapting someone else’s playbook. It is writing one. * University relationships. You will be the primary relationship owner with the Vice-Chancellors, deans, faculty leads, and student bodies at OAU, UNN, and ABU. These are institutional relationships that require both strategic seniority and sustained presence. * Cross-faculty engagement. The hubs are not engineering faculty initiatives. They are open to students across every faculty: engineering, sciences, humanities, business, design. You will design the engagement model that brings students from across each university into the hub and keeps them in it through the full cohort. * Industry and mentorship pipeline. The hubs derive their value from the connection between classroom and industry. You will build and manage the network of engineers, product leaders, and founders, inside Moniepoint and beyond, who mentor, assess, and hire from the hubs. * Facilitators and standard.  You will design the facilitator model, recruit the people who teach and assess, and own the standard those facilitators hold the cohort to. A single standard across all three hubs is non-negotiable; how it's delivered locally is yours to design. * Infrastructure and operations. You will own the physical footprint of each hub, whether that means a buildout from scratch or working within an existing campus structure, and manage the timelines, vendor relationships, and hub-level budgets across three sites. You will define the staffing model for each hub and recruit the on-ground team that runs them day to day. * Outcomes and accountability. You will set and own the metrics: graduate output, job placement, programme completion, cohort quality, employer satisfaction. * Pipeline integration. The hubs are upstream of Moniepoint Academy and other talent programmes. You will design the connective tissue between hub graduates and Moniepoint’s internal pathways, so the strongest talent has a clear next step. WHO YOU ARE * 10+ years of experience overall, with at least 5 in leadership roles owning programmes, teams, and budgets end to end. * You have built or led a technical training or workforce development programme at scale, ideally across multiple sites. You have taken something from zero to one - designed the model, hired the team, and held the standard yourself. * You have held institutional relationships at senior level across universities, government bodies, and industry partners. You know how to navigate Nigerian university administration, or you have done it elsewhere and can credibly do it here. You have hired and managed technical educators, and you know what separates someone who can teach from someone who can teach to a standard. * You understand what good engineering education looks like and what employers in software, AI, product, and data science actually hire for. You don't need to write code, but you need the technical fluency to design a programme that produces hireable engineers, not credentialed graduates. * You are rigorous about outcomes and impatient with programmes that look good in announcements but cannot prove what they produce. * Experience in edtech, developer education, university-industry partnerships, or workforce development is a strong signal. Building something from scratch and owning it through to measurable outcomes is essential. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE * Year one. Operating model live across all three hubs. Cohorts running on a common standard. The facilitator team hired and held to the same expectations regardless of site. First graduate cohort exited, with a clear placement record into Moniepoint and into industry. * Year two. The hubs are recognised within Nigeria as the most credible cross-disciplinary technical training environment available to undergraduates. Employers, including Moniepoint, actively hire from the hubs. Cohort demand outstrips supply. * Year three. Hubs producing technical talent into Moniepoint at a cost-per-hire that justifies the investment, and into the wider industry at a scale and quality that defines what a corporate-funded university programme can look like in Nigeria. Model documented and ready to expand if leadership chooses. WHAT MONIEPOINT CAN OFFER YOU * The opportunity to shape one of the most consequential talent infrastructure investments in Nigerian technology.  * A dynamic, diverse, and collaborative environment where every team member's voice is recognised and valued.  * Continuous learning and career growth opportunities.  * Competitive salary, individual performance bonuses, and firmwide performance bonus. * Company-covered health insurance plans. Pension plans. WHAT TO EXPECT IN THE HIRING PROCESS * A preliminary conversation with one of our recruiters. * An interview with the hiring manager, our Head of Corporate Affairs. * A case study or written exercise on operating model design for the hubs. * An interview with our Group COO. * A final conversation with our CEO.