Business Development & Investor Relations Manager

About the role

A full-time middle-level position at Strathmore University, advertised through Corporate Staffing Services, sits at the intersection of investor stewardship, offtaker business growth and programme analytics. The holder manages relationships with existing investors and funders, helps offtakers grow local demand and distribution, advises the Programme team on domestic business growth and supports offtaker capacity-building forums. The role suits someone with commercial fluency and strong relationship skills who thrives in a small team.

Key responsibilities

• Keep contact with investors, donors and funding partners with a disciplined cadence of quarterly updates and briefings
• Maintain the investor CRM, track commitments, milestones and reporting obligations, and escalate issues early to protect the Programme's credibility
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to grow offtakers' domestic customer base and distribution across Kenya, and support go-to-market plans for institutional buyers, urban retail, food service and informal markets
• Open access to buyer networks and distributors, track sales against growth indicators, and identify shared-service and coopetition opportunities such as joint logistics or cold chain
• Analyze unit economics, margins and distribution economics, anticipate risks such as pricing pressure and buyer concentration, and advise the Programme team and support briefings to the Programme Director
• Help coordinate and deliver workshops on market expansion, buyer engagement, distribution economics and investor readiness, capturing learnings as actionable outputs

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Agribusiness or a related field
• Proven senior-level management of investors, donors, corporate partners or institutional buyers
• Willingness to travel within Kenya, especially to pastoral counties (minimal international travel)
• English proficiency; Kiswahili highly desired, and a local pastoralist language an advantage
• Agribusiness, livestock or FMCG distribution experience and donor-funded programme exposure are highly desirable

Required skills

• Commercial acumen and unit-economics literacy
• Data and dashboard fluency, able to turn data into narratives
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including senior-level briefings and presentations
• Investor and stakeholder management, market analysis and go-to-market design, facilitation and workshop delivery

The application is made through the Corporate Staffing Services online form.