BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER AT VISIONSPRING | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT JOBS IN LAGOS

About Company:

VisionSpring is creating access to affordable eyewear, everywhere. Clear vision creates opportunities for increased learning,  work, safety, civic participation, and quality of life. As a social enterprise, social change motivates us first. Our focus on sales and revenue targets serves and advances our mission objective to increase functioning, productivity, and income earning potential for our low-income consumers by correcting refractive error and presbyopia with eyeglasses. We are working to transform the systemic dysfunction of an optical market that has failed to deliver eyeglasses, a 700-year-old technology to 2.7 billion consumers in need of vision correction, most of whom live on less than $4 a day. 

Job Description:

We are seeking a Business Development Manager for Nigeria to join our team and build strategic partnerships with a growing portfolio of dynamic, sophisticated funders. Reporting to the Country Manager -Nigeria this role will lead fundraising and business development efforts with Nigeria corporations, governments, and philanthropic investors (individual and foundation). This role will also support global fundraising and business development grants directed to Africa but originating in the global North. 

Requirements:

• Drive strong sales growth by actively promoting and selling eyeglasses through retail, outreach, and institutional channels, consistently meeting and exceeding monthly and quarterly targets.
• Ensure prudent management of client credit lines, maintaining a healthy balance between sales growth and risk, while guaranteeing timely payment from all creditors and adherence to credit policies.
• Cultivate and nurture a portfolio of funders, including governments, institutional foundations, corporate and individual donors, by expanding long-term relationships with VisionSpring’s philanthropic investors and building new partnerships with prospective donors.
• Support the continual improvement of our organizational donor stewardship practices to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of VisionSpring collaborations. Proactively communicate with donors and look for ways to engage philanthropic investors in order to keep them connected to our work.
• Ensure donors receive timely, comprehensive, and accurate reports.
• Prepare thoughtful and what can be complex and multi-layered proposals and requests for renewal funding, working collaboratively with program/field staff on proposal writing, objectives, indicator development, and budgeting.
• Develop and monitor the opportunity pipeline and calendar for punctual execution of proposals, reports, trips to the field, and other forms of engagement.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 10 - 15 years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated success managing a portfolio of funders with increasing responsibility and revenue performance.
• Prior experience with relationship management, including working with diverse and sophisticated thinkers.
• Prior experience with programmatically complex proposal writing (preferably international development proposals focused on Africa), pitch deck development, or business plan writing.
• Demonstrated interest in social enterprise models and desire to learn how to articulate and share VisionSpring’s unique approach.
• Extraordinary follow-through, attention to detail and deadlines, and a strong personal sense of accountability.
• Must meet the highest standards of ethics, with a demonstrated capacity for discretion and for handling sensitive information with care.
• A strong commitment to respectful collaboration with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• Experience developing budgets.
• Aptitude in Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Salary

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