Job Description
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
Partnership Development:
- Identify, evaluate, and originate strategic partnership opportunities, ensuring strong alignment with Seamfix’s long-term business and market expansion objectives.
- Build and nurture relationships with senior stakeholders across partner organizations, government institutions, regulatory bodies, and ecosystem players.
Negotiation and Institutional Engagement:
- Conduct deep institutional and market analysis to identify, size, and prioritize strategic opportunities across the African ecosystem.
- Develop executive-level institutional artifacts, strategic briefs, concept notes, partnership frameworks, and engagement materials required for apex-level conversations.
- Assess industry trends, regulatory shifts, digital identity ecosystems, and public-sector transformation opportunities relevant to Seamfix’s strategic positioning.
Strategic Analysis & Opportunity Structuring
- Conduct deep institutional and market analysis to identify, size, and prioritize strategic opportunities across the African ecosystem.
- Develop executive-level institutional artifacts, strategic briefs, concept notes, partnership frameworks, and engagement materials required for apex-level conversations.
- Assess industry trends, regulatory shifts, digital identity ecosystems, and public-sector transformation opportunities relevant to Seamfix’s strategic positioning.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Work cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure seamless execution and alignment of partnership and institutional initiatives.
- Maintain proactive and transparent communication with partners and stakeholders, ensuring sustained engagement and relationship continuity.
- Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive, ministerial, regulatory, and board-level engagement.
Performance Monitoring:
- Establish measurable KPIs and success metrics for partnerships and institutional engagements.
- Monitor, evaluate, and optimize partnership performance and strategic outcomes over time.
Strategic Planning:
- Contribute to the development of long-term strategic partnership and institutional engagement plans that support market expansion and competitive differentiation.
- Identify new opportunities for innovation, ecosystem influence, and strategic positioning across Africa.
Acquisition of Partners:
- Drive the acquisition and expansion of both Product Partnerships and Business Partnerships.
- Develop and implement strategies for diversifying and strengthening Seamfix’s strategic partner portfolio across public and private sectors.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Public Policy, International Relations, Finance, Marketing, or a related field; an MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification is an added advantage.
- Proven experience in institutional partnerships, strategy consulting, investment banking analysis, public-sector advisory, multilateral engagement, or a related strategic role.
- Experience working within top-tier strategy consulting firms, central bank policy environments, multilateral institutions (e.g., AfDB, World Bank, IMF), or institutional strategy units is highly preferred.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities, with the ability to structure complex institutional opportunities and engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to build credibility and navigate executive, ministerial, regulatory, and multilateral environments.
- Strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication abilities.
- Pan-African mindset with a strong understanding of institutional ecosystems across African markets.
- Analytical mindset with proficiency in market research, opportunity sizing, and strategic analysis.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-performance environment with long-term strategic focus.