Principal Management Consultant - Strategy & Operations
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Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage large-scale consulting projects, ensuring successful delivery of objectives and client satisfaction.
- Develop innovative business strategies and operational improvement plans for clients.
- Conduct in-depth industry and organizational analysis, identifying key challenges and opportunities.
- Design and implement change management programs to ensure sustainable organizational transformation.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to senior executives on strategic decision-making.
- Mentor and develop junior consultants, fostering their professional growth.
- Drive business development efforts, identifying new opportunities and cultivating client relationships.
- Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital through research and thought leadership.
- Ensure the highest standards of quality and professionalism in all client engagements.
- Effectively manage project budgets and resources.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree or MBA from a top-tier institution; PhD is a plus.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in management consulting, with a significant focus on strategy and operations.
- Demonstrated success in leading complex, cross-functional transformation projects.
- Proven expertise in strategic planning, process optimization, organizational design, and change management.
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Outstanding client relationship management and business development capabilities.
- Superior communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead and inspire teams, and work effectively in a demanding, remote-first consulting environment.
- Experience across multiple industries is highly desirable.
Principal Management Consultant - Strategy & Operations - Remote
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Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage high-impact client engagements focused on strategy development, operational improvement, organizational design, and change management.
- Develop and deliver compelling strategic recommendations to C-suite executives and senior leadership teams.
- Conduct in-depth business analysis, including diagnosing issues, identifying root causes, and formulating data-driven solutions.
- Design and implement operational improvements to enhance efficiency, productivity, and cost-effectiveness.
- Oversee the execution of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with client objectives and timelines.
- Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with clients, serving as a primary point of contact.
- Lead and mentor teams of consultants, fostering their professional development and ensuring high-quality project delivery.
- Contribute to the firm's thought leadership by developing intellectual capital and participating in business development efforts.
- Identify new business opportunities and develop proposals to secure client projects.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in strategy and operations consulting.
Qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, or a related field from a top-tier institution.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in management consulting, with a focus on strategy and operations, ideally with experience at a leading global consulting firm.
- Demonstrated success in leading complex client engagements and delivering significant business value.
- Deep expertise in areas such as business process re-engineering, supply chain optimization, organizational transformation, digital strategy, and change management.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Proven ability to lead and inspire teams, manage multiple complex projects, and thrive in a demanding, remote environment.
- Outstanding presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Strong business development acumen and experience in developing proposals and winning new business.
- Willingness to travel for client meetings as needed, though the primary work is remote.
- A passion for driving client success and creating lasting impact.
Principal Management Consultant, Strategy
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Principal Management Consultant (Remote Strategy Advisory)
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Senior Management Consultant - Business Strategy
Posted 10 days ago
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Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive business analysis to identify strategic opportunities and challenges.
- Develop and refine business strategies, including market entry, growth, and competitive positioning.
- Advise clients on organizational effectiveness, operational improvements, and change management.
- Design and implement strategic initiatives that drive revenue growth and profitability.
- Lead client engagements, managing project scope, timelines, and resources.
- Facilitate strategic planning workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions.
- Prepare and deliver compelling presentations and reports to senior leadership.
- Build and nurture strong client relationships based on trust and value delivery.
- Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and thought leadership.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities within existing and new client accounts.
Qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in management consulting or strategic planning roles.
- Demonstrated expertise in corporate strategy, market analysis, and operational excellence.
- Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation abilities.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.
- Experience across multiple industries is highly desirable.
- Proficiency with data analysis and presentation tools.
Principal, Services Business Development, East Africa Cluster Lead
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Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
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Principal, Services Business Development, East Africa Cluster Lead
Principal, Services Business Development, East Africa Cluster Lead
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.
An exciting opportunity to work with some of Mastercard's most important global and regional clients having a presence in various markets across the East Africa Region, and working as a trusted and valued service partner within the Services team.
Role
- Generate and maintain Services revenue opportunities with strategically important regional accounts across East Africa
- Foster strong relationships with key client executives, as well as internally with key Mastercard stakeholders that tie directly to ROI, and are built on a foundation of trust and value creation
- Support the development of creative business solutions for complex business problems across the Services business, including insights, analytics, Test & Learn, loyalty, managed services and consulting services
- Managing sales pipeline, advancing early stage opportunities to approvals and signature, with continued engagement post sales, e.g., project delivery
- Proactively identify customer risk and opportunity signals; develop comprehensive strategies to combat and/or limit erosion
- Responsible for sales and gross revenue, including platform and recurring revenue optimization, working hand in glove with delivery capabilities on engagement quality and exploring opportunities for up-sell, add-on, cross-sell, etc.
All About You
- Working experience within strategy consulting. Preferrably with financial institutions, including payments
- Strategically focused and solution oriented with proven history of dedicated, high-energy, patient, and customer-centric behavior
- Leverage and synthesize data to analyze business challenges and opportunities
- Embrace a high performance culture and embody a "can-do" attitude
- Balance working autonomously and seeking direction when required within a complex environment
- Strong communication and presentation skills and an ability to establish credibility with C-level executives
- Detail-oriented with strength in data analysis and business case modeling
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
E-commerce Business Development Manager
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Chief of Partnerships and Business Development
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AGRA and its Work to Transform Agriculture
AGRA is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by empowering the continent's 33 million smallholder farming households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable businesses. The continent's farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income.
Working in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets. In our work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks required to drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with our partners to create an equitable youth-friendly environment that harnesses the youth dividend on the continent to drive growth and facilitate open employment opportunities for young women and men.
Why Join Us?
People are the heartbeat of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery, impact, and success.
We have cultivated a workplace that fuels Depth in Collaboration, Excellence in Execution, Constructive Engagements, and a spirit of being Increasingly Entrepreneurial; all underpinned by our cherished I-RISE Values (Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship, and Equity)
We work with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming communities across the African continent, combined with an inclusive, diverse, and talented workforce from over 25 nationalities. Our commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as we arise to catalyze African Food Systems transformation and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
We are looking for people who are passionate about being part of a mission-driven team that is making a real difference on the continent.
Are you ready to embark on this exciting, transformative journey with us?
The Position
The Chief of Partnerships and Business Development (CPBD) will shape and lead AGRA's institution-wide partnership and fundraising agenda, positioning the organization to attract, align, and sustain diverse forms of capital and collaboration in support of its strategy.
This role combines relationship stewardship, strategic positioning, resource mobilization, and investment partnership development. The CPBD will manage and grow AGRA's ecosystem of funders and strategic partners, while also designing innovative, fit-for-purpose investment and partnership platforms to advance food systems transformation.
This leadership opportunity is for an individual with deep integrity, cross-cultural intelligence, and a passion for designing systems that shape the future. A senior, strategic leader with deep credibility across development, investment, and philanthropy networks. Someone who blends influence with humility, is inspired by African-led transformation, and brings an instinct for building alignment across complexity. The CPBD will report directly to AGRA's President and serve on the Executive Committee.
The CPBD will:
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the President on global positioning, strategic partnerships, and resource strategies.
- Guide AGRA's institutional engagement with bilateral and multilateral donors, philanthropic foundations, private sector actors, DFIs, sovereign wealth funds, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Oversee and strengthen the Development Cooperation, Private Sector Engagement, and Institutional Partnerships teams.
- Incubate and scale strategic initiatives that crowd in resources and visibility behind key thematic and regional priorities (e.g., youth employment, climate-smart agriculture, nutrition, regenerative systems).
- Serve as a key convenor and steward of AGRA's flagship partnership platform—PIATA—and shape its future evolution.
- Elevate AGRA's voice and profile on global platforms (e.g., COP, WEF, SDG summits) and lead high-level external representation in collaboration with the President.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of innovative funding mechanisms, including blended finance structures, challenge funds, and catalytic partnerships.
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Responsibilities
of the role include:
Partnership Strategy and Stewardship
- Lead the development and execution of a multi-year institutional partnership and resource mobilization strategy.
- Cultivate trusted relationships with key external partners, serving as AGRA's senior-most relationship manager.
- Develop a differentiated and coherent value proposition for partners, aligned to AGRA's evolving strategy and Africa's priorities.
Resource Mobilization and Investment Partnerships
- Expand AGRA's funding base beyond traditional aid, including philanthropic capital, climate finance, private sector partnerships, diaspora funding, and demographic ownership.
- Build systems and capabilities for pipeline development, proposal generation, donor reporting, and compliance.
- Work with internal teams and external partners to design and structure catalytic finance vehicles (e.g., funds, alliances, joint ventures).
Team Leadership and Organizational Influence
- Build and lead a high-performing, collaborative team covering Development Cooperation, Institutional Partnerships, and Private Sector Engagement.
- Embed a culture of partnership and co-creation across the organization; support country directors and technical leaders to own and cultivate relationships.
- Ensure effective coordination between central and decentralized partnership functions.
Strategic Initiatives and Positioning
- Shape and steward high-value strategic initiatives that position AGRA for future relevance and impact.
- Lead or co-lead AGRA's representation on key platforms and alliances.
- Design initiatives that unlock collaboration and visibility across governments, investors, and implementers.
PIATA Leadership and Evolution
- Serve as institutional lead for PIATA (Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa).
- Reimagine PIATA's structure and role as a platform for greater alignment and co-investment across funders.
The Ideal Leader
This is a pivotal executive role in a moment of transformation for both AGRA and the wider development ecosystem. The ideal leader will not only bring credibility and networks but will also be energized by the opportunity to shape a new paradigm for how African-led institutions partner, fundraise, and collaborate. This is a chance to lead with purpose and with influence.
This role requires a globally fluent, Africa-anchored leader with deep credibility and networks across at least two of the following spaces:
- International development
- Strategic philanthropy
- Climate and sustainable finance
- Agricultural systems and food security
- Private capital and investment platforms
The idea leader will be:
- Influential and collaborative:
able to build trust and alignment across a range of institutions and individuals. - Strategic and entrepreneurial:
comfortable designing novel partnership structures and pursuing innovative opportunities. - Adaptive and grounded:
able to navigate both high-level strategic spaces and operational realities. - Values-led:
committed to AGRA's mission and excited by its evolving direction.
This is both an outward-facing and institution-shaping role. It will require exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, the ability to navigate internal and external complexity, and the capacity to lead a lean, high-impact team while collaborating across the matrix.
Key
Requirements of
the role include:
- Experience in partnerships, resource mobilization, or related leadership roles.
- Experience leading multi-country and multi-partner strategies, preferably in Africa.
- Track record of fundraising success with institutional donors and/or mobilizing private and philanthropic capital.
- Understanding of agricultural development, climate finance, or adjacent sectors.
- Experience engaging with high-level stakeholders, including heads of state, multilateral agencies, and global investors.
- Proven ability to lead and grow diverse, high-performing teams.
- Advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., international development, economics, business, agriculture).
How to apply for this role?
AGRA is a crucible for a diverse and equal opportunity organization. We welcome the torch bearers of change for this role. All expressions of interest will be enveloped in confidentiality. Interested executives are requested to
send in a cover letter and their updated resume/CV via email to before the application deadline of 19th September 2025.
If you would like to recommend relevant leaders for this role, please share their profiles and contact details at the same email address.
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AGRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Remote E-commerce Strategy Manager
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Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement data-driven e-commerce strategies to drive online sales and market share growth.
- Manage and optimize product listings across multiple e-commerce platforms (e.g., Amazon, Jumia, client's own D2C site), ensuring accurate descriptions, compelling imagery, and competitive pricing.
- Plan, execute, and analyze digital marketing campaigns, including SEO, SEM, social media marketing, and email marketing, to drive traffic and conversions.
- Monitor e-commerce KPIs, analyze sales data, website traffic, and customer behavior to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, and supply chain teams to ensure seamless execution of online promotions and inventory management.
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify emerging trends and opportunities in the online FMCG space.
- Manage the e-commerce budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to achieve strategic goals.
- Stay current with e-commerce technologies, platforms, and best practices, recommending innovative solutions.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with e-commerce platform partners.
- Provide regular performance reports and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, E-commerce, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in e-commerce management, with a strong focus on the FMCG sector.
- Proven track record of successfully developing and executing e-commerce strategies that drive significant sales growth.
- In-depth knowledge of various e-commerce platforms, digital marketing channels (SEO, SEM, social media, email), and analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable insights.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a remote setting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective remote collaboration.
- Experience with D2C (Direct-to-Consumer) models is a plus.
- Creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Self-motivated and able to thrive in a fast-paced, fully remote work environment.