Mezzanine Ware (Pty) Ltd. (“Mezzanine”), incorporated in October 2009, is a for-profit technology company registered in South Africa. With an estimated 1 billion mobile subscribers in Africa, Mezzanine views mobile technology as a major enabler for economic growth. The Company’s focus is on using technology – on an agnostic and non-exclusive basis – to create productive societies – including in Agriculture where we have almost 1.8m smallholder farmers using our digital offerings. Our solutions impact multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) directly. We have shareholder support to revise our offering, validate it and expand into other countries. We wish to contract for the design and implementation of the Market linkage services (billing, payments, insurance, loans, savings) components of the platform, including leading edge fin-tech solutions applicable to SSA rural areas. The Company operates across Africa and is majority owned by Vodacom Group (Pty) Ltd.

About the role 

The Business Development Manager: Connected Farmer Plus (CF+) will form part of a team of experts to validate the value proposition and business plan of CF+ within Uganda. The Business Development Manager: CF+ will engage & on-board tenants & partners, provide input to design specifications for technical development, and project manage implementation with project management office (partnering & deployment) in Uganda. This role will include identifying and onboarding content partners for subject matter specific learning content and identifying, negotiating and onboarding of input suppliers and distributors to CF+. The Business Development Manager will report to the CF+ Programme Manager.

The ideal candidate will have a keen understanding of the agriculture industry and stakeholder community (policies, politics and influencers). The individual will have strong operational execution skills and business acumen. The individual will have high emotional intelligence and excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience in the agricultural industry within East Africa
• 5+ years’ experience in designing and implementing high-impact/large budget projects
• 5+ years’ experience in project management in complex stakeholder and implementation environments
• 5+ years’ experience in building and managing relationships across diverse stakeholder contexts
• Excellent presentation, elicitation, negotiation, and communication skills
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Strong business acumen

Advantageous

• Experience with up scaling digital platforms that are used to support agricultural activities in East Africa
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Commerce or any other relevant field