Seed Internship Summer 2017 Opportunities - Nigeria
Seed Internship Opportunities - Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Value Chain Innovations
Project requirements: Engineering background; understanding of healthcare value chain
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Adcem Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ADCEM) is an indigenous technology and innovation driven healthcare company that believes strongly in sustainability as a prescription for development. For over 20 years, ADCEM has consolidated its mark in delivering quality services and providing solutions in the healthcare industry across Nigeria. The company’s drive and passion to better the lives of people has been proven over time through the company’s outstanding contribution to renal care in the country.
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Marketing (Marketing Strategy, Market Sizing & Research, Sales Processes & Systems, Market Segmentation, Branding & Positioning, Communications, Collateral & PR, Product Pricing, Product Marketing: Existing Product, Product Marketing: New Product and Marketing Analytics)
Project requirements: Marketing background
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Housessories is a privately-owned interior/lifestyle company engaged in the designing, manufacturing and marketing of space solutions. Housessories does this through the design and manufacture of furniture, provision of interior design consulting and supervision, as well as retailing of interior accessories. They are a small furniture manufacturing company with a big vision to revolutionize the furniture market in West Africa (Nigeria first) by providing customers with intelligently designed, affordable furniture, accessories and space solutions - quickly.
How Housessories will succeed?
They will provide convenient and alternative portals for purchasing, value, consistent quality, design consistency, exceptional customer service, and the use of technology and social media. Housessories has two exciting brands, Eezy Office, which offers convenient, stylish, value priced office furniture for brand conscious organizations and Refined Cabinets, which offers kitchens and wardrobes for wholesale builders.
3. Tranos Contracting Limited (2 Internship Project Opportunities)
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: 1. Engineering/Product Design; 2. Production/Operations Management
Project requirements: Engineering background
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Tranos is a diversified technology company focused on simplifying lives through innovative solutions. They have recently commenced manufacturing of electro-mechanical equipment and devices like power generators and electricity distribution panels, and they are working on expanding their product lines to include wall switches and sockets, changeover switches and isolators.
Tranos has in-house capabilities to develop products from conception through design, prototyping to full production. The plan is to continuously innovate by creating new products for their markets. Their factory is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, and they continuously invest in equipment to ensure that their products remain market leaders.
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Organizational Design
Project requirements: Computer Science background
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Terragon is a software company operating in the telecom, media, and technology (TMT) space. Our focus is to unlock value for businesses by using insights to reach mobile audiences in Africa.
5. Psaltry International Company Limited (PIL)
Oyo State, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Operations, Manufacturing Processes
Project requirements: Engineering background; Computer Science background
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Psaltry International Company Limited (PIL) is an indigenous cassava starch processor, established in 2005 by a biochemist and entrepreneur, Ms. Yemisi Iranloye. Psaltry’s focus is on refining cassava (a root vegetable and common food staple in West Africa) into high-quality food-grade starch, which is used in many consumer products. Psaltry plays a key role in improving the livelihoods of local residents, by providing jobs for a substantial number of employees and farmers, launching poverty eradication programs aimed at increasing farmers’ revenues, and providing water and health care facilities.
Psaltry is located in rural Nigeria, in Oyo State, about 3+ hour drive from Lagos. The Seed intern will live on the company grounds, near the CEO’s home.
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Company leader's Chief of Staff (working on strategic projects involving multiple areas of the company)
Project requirements: Not too serious person (Easy going and flexible)
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: SMEFUNDS is leading innovation in native engineering for changing the way energy is generated and created for the poor. For more than 6 years, they have demonstrated that Biofuel Gel for Clean Cookstoves is economically viable, sustainable and scalable. Not only have they been able to provide cooking fuel for millions of working poor, but also create jobs for women; this has been demonstrated through our social network of over 27,000 green entrepreneurs (women led distribution SMEs) who have distributed and sold over 5,000,000 litres of bio-fuel and 500,000 cookstoves in 4 years.
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Company leader's Chief of Staff/Strategy
Project requirements: Computer Science background
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: COURE Software & Systems is a business process automation firm focused on the proper implementation of technology to improve their client's business process and operations. They automate repeatable functions and activities towards reduced cost and time. This allows for growth without a significant increase in resources used to manage it. COURE’s industry solutions offer better Return on Investment (ROI). Their primary solution is a Number Management Solution with various modules targeted at various stakeholders in the telecom sector. Their second solution is a web based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that caters to various markets. The third is a network service which targets mid to large organizations. Within these three solutions, there is ample activity and opportunity to add value.
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Finance/Accounting
Project requirements: Accounting/ financial analysis background helpful (with an interest in improving the lives of women and children in developing economies)
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Nordica Fertility Centre is a specialist healthcare service provider. Their core competency is the management of Infertility. The company started in 2003 and has grown into four branches covering three geopolitical zones in Nigeria. Nordica has been in the forefront of infertility treatment. Nordica is the fertility treatment centre to achieve conception using new technologies like Laser Assisted Hatching and Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection in the West African sub region.
Nordica collaborates with some of the best clinics in Europe and America to offer the best services to their patients. The range of services they render include: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to help couples with AS genotype reduce the chances of their baby developing Sickle Cell (which is prevalent in Africa) amongst other inheritable disorders, as well as sex selection.
They pride themselves on being a one stop fertility clinic. They also offer endoscopic surgical procedures like hysteroscopy and Myomectomy (removal of Fibroids, very common in the black race). Nordica does this in collaboration with doctors from the United Kingdom and United States of America. Nordica also provides ultrasound training for doctors and has gradually positioned itself as a knowledge leader in the healthcare industry on fertility issues.
The Healthcare space is exciting, and there is so much room for growth that impacts the society positively.
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Strategy/Performance Management/Finance
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Axial Nigeria Limited is a consortium of Designers, Planners, Engineers, Consultants and Technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services that successfully guide development projects through all stages of the project cycle. The group provides unrivaled strategic and technical consulting services that enable clients to participate in high-value development projects with ease and confidence.
Axial focuses on design and build projects for affordable housing for the Bottom of Pyramid (BOP) market. In the last 3 years, Axial has focused on providing on-campus student housing for less than a dollar a day. Today, they currently house over 2000 students yearly and are growing rapidly.
Their culture of delivering quality for less has carved a niche in the housing sector where they offer regional specific products for affordable student and single family housing. This initiative is sustained by their value chain process and maximization on economies of scale in construction materials and professional expertise.
10. Havilah Merchants Nigeria Limited
Lagos, Nigeria
Strategic Project Area: Company leader's Chief of Staff (working on strategic projects involving multiple areas of the company)
Project requirements: Computer Science background
Internship suitable for: Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Havilah Merchants Nigeria Limited is Nigeria’s leading one-top-shop for outfitting libraries and archives. Established in 1995, as a book consolidator in 1995. We are the exclusive representative of Europe’s leading shelving and hardware brands as well as publishers. We have impacted across Nigeria’s economy by providing employment and alleviating poverty.
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