Group Director – Business Development at African Guarantee Fund (AGF)

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• Develop and execute the Group Business Development strategy, translating AGF’s mandate and corporate priorities into clear regional, product and PFI account plans, performance indicators and accountabilities. • Lead disciplined market expansion and selective origination, prioritizing opportunities with clear additionality and appropriate risk-adjusted returns. • Maintain a robust market-intelligence capability covering PFI needs, regulation, technology, sector trends and country dynamics, and convert insights into actionable commercial decisions. • Provide evidence-based advice to the Group CEO and Senior Management on growth choices, market positioning, commercial risks and emerging opportunities, and contribute to Board reporting as required. • Develop strong strategic partnerships with different stakeholders to catalyze more financing for the African SMEs. • Establish a Group-wide customer relationship management framework based on partner segmentation, disciplined account planning, service standards, reliable data and clear ownership of every strategic relationship. • Ensure a responsive end-to-end partner experience by coordinating onboarding, due diligence, structuring, documentation, implementation and post-signature support across Risk, • Structured Finance, Legal, Finance, Operations and Capacity Development. • Develop and implement strategy to source and acquire new business opportunities. • Continuously carry out market and competitor analysis as part of gathering market intelligence to inform business decisions. • Provide clear leadership in understanding the market, technology and financial institution’s needs and trends and how these translate into possible opportunities for AGF. • Thought leadership on strategic marketing, communication and new products development. • Build trusted relationships with banks, non-bank financial institutions, development finance institutions, guarantee institutions, regulators, central banks, industry bodies and other ecosystem partners to broaden the reach and acceptance of AGF’s solutions to catalyze more financing for the African SMEs. • Own the consolidated Group business pipeline and commercial forecast, enforcing common stage definitions, qualification criteria, conversion discipline, data quality and transparent reporting across regions and products. • Manage performance against approved utilisation, origination, income, margin, partner and