Director, Business Development & Partnerships
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Intersect Consortium is hiring a Director, Business Development & Partnerships in Abuja (FCT), Nigeria. The role leads business development, market expansion, product commercialization, and strategic partnerships across the Consortium's mental health, rehabilitation, pharmaceutical, technology, and manufacturing portfolio. This is a full-time senior leadership position focused on driving sustainable growth.
- Senior leadership role driving commercial growth across a multi-sector health and wellness consortium
- Covers business development, partnerships, product development, and market expansion
- Portfolio spans mental health, rehabilitation, pharmaceuticals, technology, and manufacturing
- Based in Abuja (FCT), Nigeria
- Full-time employment
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Director, Business Development & Parnerships at Intersect Consortium
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Sep 28, 2026, 5:02 AM
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At Intersect Consortium, we're building a connected ecosystem of mental health, addiction, wellness, and related services designed to close the gaps that exists across the sector. Our mission is straightforward:Finding and filling gaps in the mental health space. Our ambition is even bigger: to become the largest provider of mental health products and services in Africa.
Today, Intersect brings together multiple organizations and services across mental health, addiction care, rehabilitation, wellness, pharmaceuticals, and related areas. And we're growing. That means we're looking for people who don't just want a job title. We want people who want to build things, improve things, and leave systems better than they found them.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Director, Business Development & Parnerships
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time
The Opportunity
The Director, Business Development & Partnerships will lead business development, market expansion, product/service commercialization, and strategic partnership development across Intersect Consortium and its portfolio of businesses.
Key Objective
The primary objective of the role is to move Intersect Consortium and its individual businesses from their current commercial position to the next stage of sustainable growth.
The Director will be expected to identify commercial opportunities that may already exist within the Consortium but are currently underdeveloped, under-marketed, under-packaged,or under-commercialized.
The role will combine:
Business Development + Product Development + Market Expansion + Partnerships + Commercial Strategy + Sales Enablement + Market Intelligence.
Scope of The Role
The Director will work across the Consortium's diverse portfolio, including:
Rehabilitation services
Mental health and treatment centres
Pharmaceutical services
Women's mental health services
Other service-based entities within the Consortium.
Technology/IT businesses
Manufacturing businesses
The Director must therefore be comfortable working across different industries, customer segments, purchasing processes and revenue models.
Professional services
Key Responsibilities
- Consortium-Wide Business Development Strategy:
- Establish business development standards and processes across the Consortium.
- Identify priority markets, sectors, customer segments, and geographic opportunities.
- Translate the Consortium's overall business strategy into measurable commercial initiatives.
- Establish annual and quarterly business development targets.
- Establish reporting structures for business development performance.
- Regularly review the commercial performance of each business unit and recommend corrective actions.
- Develop growth plans for individual entities and business units.
- Develop a common pipeline-management framework.
- Develop and implement a Consortium-wide business development strategy.
- Coordinate business-development activities across entities to avoid duplication and identify opportunities for cross-selling.
- Business Growth Diagnostics:
- The Director will act as an internal growth consultant to the Consortium and its businesses.
- This includes:
- Identifying underutilized capabilities.
- Developing practical growth interventions.
- Identifying services with low awareness or weak market penetration.
- Reviewing existing customer segments.
- Reviewing existing products and services.
- Identifying barriers to sales.
- Assessing competitors and market positioning.
- Identifying revenue leakage and missed commercial opportunities.
- Assessing pricing and packaging.
- Determining whether problems relate to product, pricing, positioning, distribution, awareness, sales capability, or market access.
- Assessing the current commercial position of each business.
- Product & Service Development:
- A major responsibility of this role will be turning existing expertise and capabilities into sellable products and services.
- The Director will:
- Develop bundled service solutions across Consortium entities.
- Develop pricing and packaging recommendations.
- Create corporate and institutional service offerings.
- Develop product / service propositions and value propositions.
- Develop go-to-market plans.
- Develop commercially viable service packages.
- Repackage existing services for new customer segments.
- Identify opportunities for subscription, retainer, contract, or recurring-revenue models.
- Identify new product and service opportunities.
- Test new offerings with target markets.
- Establish commercial launch plans for new products and services.
- Work with technical, clinical, and operational teams to validate feasibility.
- Government Sector Business Development:
- The Director will develop and execute strategies for accessing relevant government markets.
- This includes:
- Develop government-sector value propositions.
- Build relationships with relevant government stakeholders.
- Establish a structured government-sector pipeline.
- Identify relevant Federal, State and Local Government opportunities.
- Develop institutional engagement strategies.
- Ensure appropriate ethical, legal and procurement standards are maintained.
- Monitor government procurement and programme opportunities.
- Coordinate preparation for bids, proposals and presentations.
- Map ministries, departments, agencies and government institutions relevant to Consortium services.
- Identify relevant tenders, programmes, contracts and partnership opportunities.
- Identify decision-makers, influencers and procurement stakeholders.
- Private-Sector Business Development:
- Develop long-term institutional accounts.
- Build and manage institutional pipelines.
- Develop corporate proposals.
- Establish strategic relationships.
- Develop corporate account strategies.
- Develop and lead strategies for penetration of the private sector.
- Develop employee wellness and mental-health packages where applicable.
- Identify opportunities for cross-selling Consortium services.
- Negotiate commercial opportunities in collaboration with management.
- Identify high-value prospects.
- Network & Cross-Selling Across the Consortium:
- One of the unique opportunities within Intersect is the ability to leverage the Consortium's diverse capabilities.
- The successful candidate is expected to bring an established professional network that can accelerate market entry and opportunity development.
- The Director will identify opportunities where one entity can create business for another.
- Examples may include:
- IT + healthcare organizations
- Training + mental-health services
- Digital solutions + healthcare organizations.
- Manufacturing + institutional clients
- Mental health + corporate wellness
- Healthcare + technology
- Pharmaceuticals + healthcare providers
- Corporate wellness + treatment services
- Business Development Team Leadership:
- The Director will oversee business development personnel across the Consortium.
- Responsibilities include:
- Establish reporting structures.
- Develop training programmes.
- Conduct pipeline reviews.
- Define roles and responsibilities.
- Recommend recruitment where required.
- Build a culture focused on opportunity creation and conversion.
- Develop performance-management systems.
- Identify capability gaps.
- Set targets.
- Develop KPIs.
- Standardize business development practices.
- Coach and mentor business development personnel.
- Improve proposal and pitching capability.
- Qualifications and Experience
- A Masters Degree.
- Strong understanding of sales pipelines and CRM.
- Experience developing new products or services.
- Demonstrated experience developing strategic partnerships.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, Finance, Management, Communications, or a related field.
- Strong government and private-sector business-development experience.
- Demonstrated track record of generating new business and revenue.
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple business lines or industries.
- Strong market-analysis capability.
- 8 - 12+ years of progressive business development, commercial strategy, sales, partnerships, or growth experience.
- Excellent presentation and pitching skills.
- Strong commercial negotiation skills.
- Significant experience managing business development teams.
- Experience taking existing products/services into new markets.
- Highly Desirable:
- Existing senior-level network across government and private-sector institutions.
- Experience working across a diversified group or conglomerate.
- Experience with large corporate accounts.
- Experience building commercial functions from the ground up.
- Consulting experience.
- Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, manufacturing, or professional services.
- Experience with government procurement and institutional contracts.
- Experience launching new products/services.
- Management consulting experience.
Salary: N800,000 - N1,000,000 monthly.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and a brief cover letter explaining why you are a strong fit for the role to:
jobs@intersectconsortium.com
using "Director Business" as the subject of the email.
Note
: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Application Deadline:
1st November, 2026.
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