Senior Specialist - Market Development & Partnerships

Interested in a career that matters?

Interested in a career that matters?
Join us in creating new growth opportunities for biosolutions in India. In this strategic individual-contributor role, you will translate national priorities into scalable adoption programs, ecosystem partnerships, and market-development initiatives.
Acting as a bridge between external ecosystems and our business units, you will identify where biosolutions can help address important national challenges and create pathways for adoption through partnerships, pilots, capability building, and solution deployment.

The role & your impact
This role focuses on market creation, ecosystem activation, and adoption acceleration. You will create the market conditions needed to accelerate biosolutions adoption by connecting India’s national priorities, external stakeholders, and commercial opportunities.
The role complements Public Affairs by concentrating on market development and implementation rather than policy advocacy, regulatory management, government relations, or corporate reputation activities.

Your key responsibilities in this role

- Translate priorities related to food security, agricultural productivity, soil health, climate resilience, the bioeconomy, circularity, sustainable manufacturing, energy transition, public health, and nutrition into growth opportunities for biosolutions.

- Monitor emerging national missions and development priorities, identify relevant market opportunities, and build market-entry and market-expansion roadmaps.

- Establish strategic partnerships and collaborative platforms with research institutions, universities, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations, innovation platforms, industry bodies, and relevant public-sector organizations.

- Identify suitable states for pilot programs, develop demonstration projects and state-specific adoption roadmaps, and create implementation models that can be replicated at scale.

- Build and activate a network of scientists, agronomists, economists, academics, sustainability experts, innovation leaders, think-tank experts, and industry influencers to strengthen evidence and adoption.

- Collaborate with our Agriculture, Food, Health, Bioenergy, and Industrial Biosolutions teams to develop multi-stakeholder programs that generate market demand and support commercial deployment.

What you'll need to be successful in this role

- An MBA from a recognized institution.

- Between 5 and 12 years of relevant professional experience.

- Experience translating strategic priorities or complex market needs into practical programs and growth initiatives.

- Demonstrated ability to develop partnerships and work effectively across organizations, sectors, and stakeholder groups.

- Strong strategic thinking, stakeholder management, collaboration, and program-development capabilities.

- Ability to connect scientific or technical solutions with measurable market and societal outcomes.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.

Additional skills & interests we value

- Experience working with government-enabled programs, research institutions, universities, development agencies, industry bodies, or innovation ecosystems.

- Knowledge of agriculture, food, health, biotechnology, bioenergy, industrial biosolutions, sustainability, or the circular economy.

- Experience designing and implementing pilot programs, demonstration projects, or market-activation initiatives.

- Experience developing expert or academic networks that support evidence generation, validation, knowledge sharing, and talent attraction.

- An interest in building scalable solutions that contribute to India’s development priorities and generate sustainable business growth.

What we offer you
You will have the opportunity to work across businesses, disciplines, and external ecosystems to help create new markets for biosolutions in India.
The role provides broad exposure to strategic growth initiatives and opportunities to collaborate with scientific experts, commercial teams, academic institutions, innovation leaders, and other ecosystem partners. Your work will help turn promising ideas into practical adoption models with measurable business and societal impact.

Working conditions
The position is based in Bangalore, India.
This is an individual-contributor role.
Travel is required to engage stakeholders, develop partnerships, support pilot programs, and advance state-level and national market-development initiatives.

Relevant information
Application deadline: 30 November 2026

Our purpose guides the way
In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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