Direct the Global Health, Population and Nutrition (GHPN) Business Unit’s business development efforts, specifically related to external facing functions of managing and facilitating client relationships, understanding client priorities and funding trends, and assessing client satisfaction. Support the submission of client-centered, responsive proposals to increase sales, including with non-traditional clients. Ensure that scientific and technical understand client needs and builds capacity of staff to respond to those identified needs. Serve as a member of the senior management within GHPN.
Identifies new and sustains existing GHPN business development opportunities by:
- Conducting market analysis to detect trends in health-related practices areas among USG and non-traditional funders, e.g., private foundations, multi-lateral organizations, other government aid agencies.
- Generating new business leads, which might include expanding service offerings with current clients, positioning existing services with new clients, and/or identifying potential opportunities to diversify GHPN’s funding base.
- Facilitating financial viability analysis for expanding/diversifying GHPN’s portfolio
- Collaborating with department leaders to develop new business.
- Leading the development and execution of business development plans in coordination with regional and technical leads.
- Reviewing strategic bid opportunities in collaboration with regional and technical teams.
- Recommending opportunities to pursue and facilitate go/no go reviews and decisions with the senior management team.
- Understanding FHI 360’s current market, its competitors, and areas for growth.
- Forecasting sales targets and maintaining an opportunities pipeline.
- Provides direct supervision for the GHPN BD Associate and overall supervision for the GHPN BD team.
Develops/maintains strong client and partner relationships by:
- Identifying potential clients, and the decision makers within the client organizations,
- Identifying client’s strategic priorities and interests.
- Researching and building relationships with new clients.
- Reviewing win and loss notifications to identify themes and trends to understand existing client needs.
- In collaboration with departmental and project leadership, understanding client satisfaction with existing awards.
- Contributing to partner development through identifying, developing new relationships, and building existing relationships with partners
Builds the capacity of scientific, technical, and programmatic staff by:
- Providing training and mentoring to staff on understanding client needs and tailoring a response to address those needs.
- Reviewing and editing priority submissions to ensure responsiveness to the solicitation.
Supervision Given/Received
- Supervises work of other supervisors/managers, including planning, assigning, scheduling and reviewing work, ensuring quality standards.
- Responsible for hiring, terminating, training and developing, reviewing performance and administering corrective action for staff.
- Plans organizational structure and job content.
- Mentors and develops employees to expand employee performance levels and retain high performing employees.
- Provides clear team and individual goals and expectations and ensure that each member of the staff understands her/his responsibility.
- Coaches and counsels direct reports with regard to performance and goal setting; provides timely feedback, fosters environment that supports staff development, provides necessary training and encourages excellence in leadership in business development.
Problem Solving & Impact
- Decisions and actions have a direct impact on the outcomes of own department and the entire organization.
- Problems encountered are often complex, broad in scope, and implications are often unprecedented with no clear resolution.
- Must be able to provide accurate, expert level advice to reach outcomes that will enable achievement of overall department and organization goals.
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