Business Development Manager at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Position

Options’ energetic and dynamic Business Growth team is seeking a new member! You are highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and able to drive new business growth in Africa and Asia. You will be experienced in positioning for new opportunities, engaging with diverse stakeholders, and proactively managing high-quality programme design and proposal development (technical & financial).

Summary purpose and objective of role

• Contribute to the implementation of Options’ new business strategy, supporting our approach to new clients, and expansion into new markets.
• Analyse and position for new opportunities, pursue and develop prequalification documents, and develop high quality technical, innovation and commercial proposals for new business.
• Feed into pipeline reporting to monitor progress against targets and contribute to forecasting.
• Establish and nurture collaborative relationships with clients, partners, consultants and other stakeholders across our global teams and contribute to formation and development of meaningful partnerships.
• Work closely with Options’ Nigeria Country Representative to help raise Options’ profile and drive business growth in Nigeria

Requirements

• Proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with ability to engage a diverse group of international stakeholders to build and nurture relationships.
• Knowledge of the international development and/or global health landscape and fluency in a second language (especially French) is desirable.

Other information

• Options is dedicated to equal opportunity for all and recognises that every individual is unique. Whilst we always seek to embrace individual differences and celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we also want to ensure that every team member is suited to their role and that they are given the best opportunity to succeed.
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.
• Applicants must have the right to work in Nigeria