Palladium Group - Manager - Business Development

The primary responsibilities of the Manager, Business Development, are to -

- Contribute to Business Development pursuits

- Contribute to research, strategic thinking, develop and grow the opportunity pipeline; monitor and track the progress of leads and bids, and report back results and key lessons.

- Manage the development of proposals for tenders with overall responsibility for ensuring high quality technical and financial bids are submitted on time.

- Continual review for quality, pricing and efficiency improvements in the proposals or tender process.

Relationship building

- Create meaningful relationships with partners, subcontractors and freelance consultants.

- Maintain excellent relationships with key clients, and support and develop strategies for new client engagement.

- Increase capacity and efficiencies

- Build capacity, awareness and develop colleagues outside the Business Development team to contribute to identifying new opportunities.

- Ongoing process improvements to strengthen the competitive performance and efficiency.

- Minimum education and experience required

Post graduate from a reputed university.

- A minimum of 8 years consulting/international development work experience in the field of Agriculture/Agri-business Management/ Agri-Economics/ Rural Livelihoods. Familiarity with central, state and local government ministries, the private sector and international aid agencies will be an added advantage.

- Proven experience in business development, including tracking, proposal preparation, presentation and managing of bids will be an advantage.

Key competencies and professional expertise required

- Excellent written and verbal communication skill.

- Strong technical writing skills, and the ability to conceptualize and write a bid proposal or project report.

- Sound business development and client relationship management skills.

- Financial acumen and the ability to interpret and analyse financial reports.

- Strong networking and partnership management skills.

- Must be able to work under tight deadlines, with multiple/simultaneous bid efforts, and across time-zone challenges.

- Sound problem solving and decision-making skills.

- Well organised and high attention to detail.