Manager, Agriculture Business Development

Job Description

Title: Manager, Agriculture Business Development

Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Dhaka (Banani)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in Agriculture or related subjects is preferred, however candidates from others disciplines are welcome to apply if they have experience in agriculture sector.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 6 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Limited has been developing digital services for farmers and other stakeholders in agriculture value chain. We work both with development organizations and private companies for scaling up our digital services. We are looking for someone who will lead the sales efforts in agriculture both at non-profit organization and private company ends. If you think that you are the right candidate for this position, please apply by the 19th March 2022 for our Manager, Agriculture Business Development vacancy.
∎ Duty Station: Head Office in Banani, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Business development communication for sales:
∎ Working independently and designing presentations of mPower's solutions with confidence and with minimal guidance.
∎ Designing and customizing presentations according to client need.
∎ Listing ecosystem players and potential target organizations.
∎ Creating targeted and customized communication material to approach target organizations.
∎ Management of partnership and sales process:
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∎ Managing the various threads of partnerships and sales.
∎ Organizing meetings, creating support material, co-creation meetings, sales presentations, and ideation workshops.
∎ Scheduling and monitoring timely delivery of sales commitments.
∎ Liaising with the sector specialists, solution designers and technology team to collect input for targeted sales projects.
∎ Be in charge of sales closure and after contract signing, assuring proper hand-over of all the information from the pre-sales and sales phases to the project manager.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 6 years of work experience in a Business Development role. Experience in an agricultural value chain or a private company will be a great advantage.
∎ Deep understanding of the NGO sector and also private sector in agriculture.
∎ Fluency in written and spoken English. Advanced communication, negotiation and decision-making skills to do effective and goal-oriented business development.
∎ Knack to learn new topics to connect technology and development paradigm in agriculture to create new opportunities. Have proven ability to quickly investigate, learn and deliver technical solutions.
∎ Work cooperatively and effectively with potential clients and different teams to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
∎ Assess crisis situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
∎ Proficiency in MS Office applications, PowerPoint, Project Management tools.

Salary:
∎ BDT 80,000 - BDT 120,000 (based on experience and expertise)

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 19 Mar 2022

Company Information:
∎ 26 Feb 2022
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
∎ Address : Nur Empori (Level-10) | House # 77, B # M, R # 11, Banani, Dhaka-1213
∎ Web : www.mpower-social.com
∎ Business : About mPower: mPower Social Enterprises was founded by graduate students of Harvard University and MIT in 2008. Currently based in Dhaka (Bangladesh), mPower has partnered with more than 30 of the world`s leading development organizations across 8 countries to amplify the impact of development programs through innovative use of ICTs. Our partners/ funders include BRAC, Save the Children, CARE International, Oxfam, Winrock International, The Asia Foundation, Grameen, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, DFID, USAID, Population Council, Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. mPower has won a number of competitive innovation awards both at international and national levels, including USAID Global Development Award, Gates Innovation Challenge, Grand Challenges Canada etc.
Vision: A world where everyone has access to quality services
Mission: We partner with development organizations to amplify the impact and outreach of their interventions by leveraging the power of information and communication technologies
mPower`s Services:
We help implementers harness the power of innovative design, information technologies, and market forces to ensure delivery of quality services to the underserved
We design and build solutions that allow implementing organizations,
to provide more timely and higher quality services using frontline workforces
to collect field data for better decision-making, organizational learning and monitoring
to develop capacity of community members so as to positively influence choices and behavior
to empower community members to report abnormalities and hold service providers accountable
to take market-driven approaches to service delivery rather than subsidy-driven in order to ensure sustainability

Category: Agro (Plant/Animal/Fisheries)

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