2019 Seed Internship Program Opportunity (BPL Nigeria Ltd)

Company name: BPL Nigeria Ltd

Project type: Marketing

Project Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Project sub-categories: Fundraising, marketing, strategy

Internship eligibility requirement: Stanford graduate students only (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD) may participate

About the company: We are a recycling company. We buy used batteries and export them to countries in Europe. As part of our Transformation Plan, we are currently looking at raising funds to set up a world-class recycling plant, the first in sub-saharan Africa.

Project Description: We are currently fundraising to set up a battery recycling plant and are working with Sage Grey and Deloitte on this project. The recycling plant will have a production capacity of 20,000MT of lead per annum. To achieve this, we need to create a marketing plan to help us increase our coverage of Lagos and Nigeria as a whole. We are looking for someone to study the industry and come up with a strategic plan to achieve 40 - 50% coverage of the batteries consumed in Nigeria. The ideal person should be entrepreneurial-minded, driven, and ready to achieve great things with us. This part of the project is very critical for our business as the success of the project is hinged on how well we can feed the plant with raw materials.