Business Development Manager
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VisionSpring Nigeria is hiring a Business Development Manager to drive sales growth across retail, outreach, and institutional channels while supporting donor engagement and fundraising. The role focuses on selling affordable eyeglasses to low-income consumers and using Salesforce to manage donor relationships and sales data.
- Sales management and donor engagement responsibilities
- Use of Salesforce CRM for tracking communications and gifts
- Focus on affordable eyewear for low-income consumers
- Social enterprise with measurable social impact goals
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Business Development Manager at VisionSpring Nigeria
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Sep 21, 2026, 1:08 PM
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VisionSpring is creating access to affordable eyewear, everywhere. Clear vision creates opportunities for increased learning, work, safety, civic participation, and quality of life. As a social enterprise, social change motivates us first. Our focus on sales and revenue targets serves and advances our mission objective—to increase functioning, productivity, and income earning potential for our low-income consumers by correcting refractive error and presbyopia with eyeglasses. We are working to transform the systemic dysfunction of an optical market that has failed to deliver eyeglasses—a 700-year-old technology—to 2.7 billion consumers in need of vision correction, most of whom live on less than $4 a day.
We serve low-income consumers, not as beneficiaries but as customers. Our customers expect a high-quality and affordable product, and they will spend limited discretionary income for the immediate and tangible
Benefits
Job Title: Business Development Manager
of vision correction. By selling eyeglasses, we awaken new demand and seed a viable market. By selling new eyeglasses we are able to serve four times as many people per dollar input than the alternative of donating recycled ones. To efficiently scale, we must deliver each new unit at a lower cost. We run our business on both sales metrics and social impact measures. We use a range of organizational forms and practices to get the job done. We believe in scaling our impact, not our organization. We are a lean team of doers.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Nigeria
Job
Responsibilities
- Sales Management, Donor Engagement & Fundraising:
- Drive strong sales growth by actively promoting and selling eyeglasses through retail, outreach, and institutional channels, consistently meeting and exceeding monthly and quarterly targets.
- Process incoming donations (via check and online giving) and ensure all donors receive timely acknowledgement.
- Leverage VisionSpring’s Salesforce customer relationship management system to track written communications, meetings, submissions, and gift processing, with strict attention to data integrity.
- Support the continual improvement of our organizational donor stewardship practices to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of VisionSpring collaborations. Proactively communicate with donors and look for ways to engage philanthropic investors in order to keep them connected to our work.
- Cultivate and nurture a portfolio of funders, including governments, institutional foundations, corporate and individual donors, by expanding long-term relationships with VisionSpring’s philanthropic investors and building new partnerships with prospective donors.
- Prepare thoughtful and what can be complex and multi-layered proposals and requests for renewal funding, working collaboratively with program/field staff on proposal writing, objectives, indicator development, and budgeting.
- Ensure donors receive timely, comprehensive, and accurate reports.
- Develop and monitor the opportunity pipeline and calendar for punctual execution of proposals, reports, trips to the field, and other forms of engagement.
- Ensure prudent management of client credit lines, maintaining a healthy balance between sales growth and risk, while guaranteeing timely payment from all creditors and adherence to credit policies.
- Strategic Planning:
- Work with the Africa team and Global development team to design and implement annual business development plans and budgets.
- Actively participate in departmental strategy development and execution.
- Report on key metrics to the VisionSpring executive leadership and other stakeholders.
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Requirements
Prior
Experience
with programmatically complex proposal writing (preferably international development proposals focused on Africa), pitch deck development, or business plan writing.
Proficiency with CRMs such as Salesforce.
Aptitude in Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
A strong commitment to respectful collaboration with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
developing budgets.
Demonstrated interest in social enterprise models and desire to learn how to articulate and share VisionSpring’s unique approach.
Demonstrated success managing a portfolio of funders with increasing responsibility and revenue performance.
synthesizing program updates from to generate evocative and compelling reports.
Extraordinary follow-through, attention to detail and deadlines, and a strong personal sense of accountability.
Must meet the highest standards of ethics, with a demonstrated capacity for discretion and for handling sensitive information with care.
Prior
with relationship management, including working with diverse and sophisticated thinkers.
The ability to travel 30-40% of your time, across Nigeria and occasionally across Africa
A minimum of 10 - 15 years of professional experience.
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