Metallurgist at Sabi

Job Title: Metallurgist

Location: Victoria Island, Lago

Job type: Full time

About Sabi:

Sabi is Africa’s leading provider of enabling infrastructure powering the distribution of goods and services. Our platform enables and empowers a wide ecosystem of users, allowing agents, merchants, exporters, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using Sabi’s technology rails. These rails provide access to physical goods supply, logistics, business tools, financial services and data insights. In a short span of two years, Sabi has grown to be the largest B2B marketplace on the African continent.

Job Summary

Are you a material expert adept in the science and technology of metals and their alloys? As a Metallurgist, you will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of metallurgical processes to optimize metal extraction, processing, and production.
You will also provide technical leadership and material expertise and work closely with the TRACE team, driving cohesion and efficiency across our commodity value chains and facilitate effective communication, tracking and reporting while propelling Sabi’s mission to empower commerce throughout Africa.
This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys tracking progress, escalating blockers, and driving alignment of Sabi’s traceable commodity value chain.

What you will be Doing

Investigate and examine the performance and properties of metals such as iron, steel, aluminum, nickel and copper, and alloys such as steel and brass, and use them to help produce a range of useful products and materials.
Write documents, manuals, metallurgical investigations, and reports in line with business objective and customer liaison.
Research and develop test or repair technology and new products
Track progress against OKRs and business goals; identify and escalate blockers proactively.
Make manufacturing time-critical decisions, carry out structural analysis, monitor quality standards in manufacturing and finishings.
Work with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists and business professionals to ensure strategic operations alignment.
Lead and manage the strategic and operational planning cycles of materials and products.
Oversee the extraction of usable metals from ores and analyze metal corrosion and fatigue.
Run internal rituals like all-hands meetings, leadership offsites, and communications cadences that promote alignment and transparency.

Requirements:

Special Skills and Qualifications:

10+ years in physical or extractive metallurgy
Expertise in alloy formulation, refining, or QA/QC for metals like cobalt, vanadium, manganese
Experience supporting commercial, compliance, or R&D teams
Able to interpret lab data, design SOPs, and assess product quality across suppliers
Technical depth-Analytical rigour
Standards and process-focused-
Effective communicator with commercial teams
Demonstrated ability to synthesize data and insights to inform business decisions.
Experience working across digital products or platforms in emerging markets is a plus.
Passion for building systems that scale and a commitment to Sabi’s mission of empowering commerce in Africa.

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.

Benefits