SAGANA - Director, Consulting - Australia
RemoteAustralia
Job Summary
Establish and strengthen Sagana's presence in Australia by acting as a senior representative for clients, partners, and prospective clients across the region. Build, nurture, and expand relationships with priority stakeholders including government agencies, foundations, and corporations while identifying, developing, and converting new business opportunities through proposals and pitches. Proactively lead and oversee consulting engagements, directing workplans, timelines, and budgets to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery while managing and developing project teams. Collaborate with global teams to scope and deliver engagements, contribute to regional strategy and business-development pipelines, and represent Sagana at industry events. This fully-remote Director role sits primarily within Sagana Consulting with opportunities to support investment-related work and collaborate with Sagana Capital.
Required Qualifications
- Director-level professional
- Significant relevant experience in consulting, advisory services, impact investing, investment management, or a closely related professional-services environment
- Demonstrated ability to combine commercial and business-development skills with credible consulting or advisory expertise
- A proven track record of building senior relationships, developing opportunities, leading proposals, and closing sales or contracts
- Experience leading complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including responsibility for workplans, timelines, budgets, and delivery quality
- Experience managing and developing consultants or multidisciplinary teams to deliver to a high standard
- Strong commercial judgement, structured thinking, problem-solving skills, and executive-level communication capabilities
- The ability to communicate complex investment and impact topics clearly and credibly to senior stakeholders
- Experience working with culturally diverse client and colleague teams
- You are a global citizen who thrives working remotely and across time zones
- An entrepreneurial mindset
- You get things done, balance attention to detail with strategic thinking, and are willing to dive into the work when necessary
- Excellent written and spoken English, with strong presentation and facilitation skills
- Knowledge of other languages is an advantage
Desired Qualifications
- Experience within a well-established consulting firm
- A strong understanding of investments, with experience in impact investing, sustainable finance, development finance, innovative finance, or related fields
- Existing relationships with Australian government agencies, development organisations, institutional investors, foundations, corporate partners, or other relevant clients
- Experience working on Australian government -funded programs or projects across Australia, Asia, or the Pacific
- Experience spanning both investment and advisory services, particularly within organisations that combine these capabilities
- A track record of bringing established client relationships or accounts into a new organisation or market
- Familiarity with climate, impact, sustainability, development finance, or innovative finance
- Experience building a new market presence, regional practice, or business-development pipeline
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