Senior Manager: Business Development (Strategic Partnership Manager)

Senior Manager: Business Development (Strategic Partnership Manager) page is loaded Senior Manager: Business Development (Strategic Partnership Manager)locations: Sandtontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: March 24, 2026 (5 days left to apply)job requisition id: R- Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary Provide complex advice and support in facilitating long term strategy development for partnerships in line with AVAF strategy to commercialise partnerships, with an end-to-end ownership of the relationship. Develop and facilitate strategy formulation, planning process; and focus on managing the translation and implementation of the AVAF strategy with our strategic partners. Job Description Customer Relationship & Sales Management: Drive partner relationship management by delivering the sale of products and/or services, providing sales support and contribute towards business growth and sustainability through business development initiatives. Business Profitability: Ensures that propositions in place optimise the cost-to-serve for relevant partners and their customers by ensuring that partners and their customers utilise the most cost-effective channel when interacting with the bank through pricing incentives of packaged solutions. Stakeholder Management: Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards. Business Development: Define and drive the strategy of the Business to increase its sales and market expansion. By focusing on analysing demographics, partnership portfolio, markets, industry and customer data, to find ways to establish new partnerships, expand into new markets and commercialisation of existing partnership portfolio. Education Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required) Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It's thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond.From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day. Whether you're starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger.Our presence across Africa - which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance - exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose. Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market.Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage.At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don't just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa's financial services landscape.