Strategy Lead, Engagements & Partnerships at Proten

Job Description

• Our client is seeking a Strategy Lead, Engagements & Partnerships to provide strategic leadership across client engagements, partnerships, business development, and organizational strategy.
• The ideal candidate will bring a strong top-tier strategy consulting background, combining structured problem-solving and analytical rigour with the ability to manage senior stakeholders, structure complex partnerships, and translate strategy into practical programme delivery.
• Periodic travel within and outside Nigeria will be required.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strategic frameworks, methodologies, and playbooks across active engagements.
• Provide strategic oversight to ongoing and new engagements, including diagnostics, problem framing, theories of change, and course correction.
• Manage senior relationships with corporate, philanthropic, government, and institutional clients and partners.
• Lead or support major proposals, concept notes, technical bids, and partnership opportunities.
• Support financial and commercial modelling, including budgets, deal structures, and investment cases.
• Identify and evaluate strategic partnership opportunities aligned with organizational growth.
• Advise on partnership structures, roles, contributions, governance, feasibility, and risk.
• Work with programme and delivery teams to ensure strategic commitments are realistic and properly resourced.
• Support the CEO in translating organizational strategy into priorities, roadmaps, and key decisions.
• Identify cross-engagement opportunities, resource conflicts, and strategic risks.
• Provide strategic briefs and recommendations to senior leadership on existing engagements and new opportunities.

Qualifications

• MBA, MSc, or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.
• 6–8 years' experience in a top-tier strategy consulting firm.
• Strong experience solving complex, ambiguous, and multi-stakeholder problems using structured frameworks.
• Proven experience managing senior client relationships and strategic accounts.
• Strong financial modelling, quantitative, analytical, and commercial skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing board- or funder-level materials and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial judgement and stakeholder management capabilities.

Additional Information:

• Experience in Africa-focused development, healthcare, or social impact.
• Experience with philanthropic funders, corporate foundations, or government institutions.
• Experience structuring public-private partnerships.
• Previous experience in engagement management, account leadership, or relationship management.