Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the pharmaceutical industry’s top 20 companies. Some 50,000 employees create value through innovation daily for the three business areas human pharmaceuticals, animal health and biopharmaceuticals.

Role & Responsibilities

• In your new role, you contribute to Boehringer’s Making More Health (MMH) ambitions 2030 to impact the lives of 50 million people and engage 20 000 employees into Making More Health.
• As a member of the overall Sustainability Social team, you will be strongly connected to all Social Business and Sustainability initiatives.
• You scale up and expand social business activities on grant bases, in terms of incubation and acceleration as well as sponsorships, together with partners.
• You lead investments for our impact investment initiative “Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement” (BISE) into high impact social business, initially in Sub-Saharan Africa, with future geographical expansion.
• One of your key tasks is to identify impactful social start up`s to develop them into investment targets and conduct the evaluation and due diligence for potential investments.
• You represent BISE as an observer in the Supervisory Board of the portfolio companies on a case-to-case basis, and you guide and refine the strategy of these companies with the aim to achieve the impact target and the successful scale up of their business models.
• By that, you contribute to the building of a highly innovative and well-balanced portfolio of companies, in line with the investment strategy.
• You work closely with a network of likeminded partners, such as other corporates, investors, foundations, NGO´s, public sectors, to develop high and impactful alliances, together with BISE investments.
• Furthermore, you manage the individual portfolio companies and alliances of BISE to scale up their business and achieve their impact goals.
• Further you will represent BISE investments and strategies to key stakeholders and senior leaders.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (e. g. MBA, MSc), preferably a field related to impact investing, e. g. finance, sustainability.
• Several years of working experience and strong background in the field of impact investing, ideally in the target region of Sub-Sahara Africa
• Good understanding of social start-ups, impact models, impact measurement and venture capital
• Strong business acumen paired with very good communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking and striving for innovation in impact financing.
• Excellent command of the English language (written and spoken)
• You will be located in Kenya, Nairobi