Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board - General Manager - Investment Promotion/Export Promotion & Project Facilitation (6-10 yrs)

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The Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board (APEDB) - the nodal investment promotion agency of the Government of Andhra Pradesh - is on a mission to drive sustainable economic growth and achieve the ambitious goal of a USD 2.5 trillion GDP by 2047, under the visionary leadership of Hon'ble Chief Minister Sri Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

APEDB is seeking talented professionals to lead strategic initiatives across key sectors. Work on diverse projects, facilitate investments, and contribute to Andhra Pradesh's success story.

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Job Descriptions:

General Manager - Investment Promotion, Export Promotion

(Sectors - Life Sciences - Pharma, Biotechnology, Healthcare & Medical Devices, Chemicals & Petro Chemicals, Green Hydrogen & Derivatives, Electric Vehicles, Textiles & Apparel and Logistics)

Role Summary:

Leads the Investment Promotion, Export Promotion, and Project Facilitation division in EDB. This high-impact role is responsible for driving investment promotion and trade efforts for the focus sectors of AP. The consultant will be the key person to build and nurture relationships with different state and central government departments, CXOs, and team members for seamless facilitation of investments. He/ She will be leading a team of investment promotion professionals.

Essential Qualifications:

Master's Degree in International Business or Business Administration or M Pharma or M.Sc. (Life Sciences) or sector relevant qualification from a recognized/reputed institution in India or abroad

Preferred Experience:

- Strong experience in management consulting, government consulting, industry associations, market research, working with multilateral and bilateral agencies. Prior experience in an Investment Promotion Agency will be an added advantage.

- Strong experience working with the C-Suite executives of large private sector companies.

- Experience in working with Governments at the state and central level. Understanding of the policies, rules and regulations in the state and at the center.

- Sectoral Expertise in Life Sciences - Pharma, Biotechnology, Healthcare & Medical Devices.

- Excellent stakeholder and client management skills.

- Strong management skills, particularly in planning, scheduling, and managing multiple tasks and people while working under tight deadlines.

- Experience in managing large projects for governments, private sector, multilateral clients and industry associations.

- Demonstrated skills in team management and mentoring.

- Experience in writing technical proposals, reports, and research papers.

Broad Job Description:

- Research and Strategy: Combine a robust understanding of macroeconomic issues at the national level with micro level insights on the economic potential of districts and cities in Andhra Pradesh. Create profiles for cities, districts, sectors and the state by mapping growth paradigms and matching investment and export opportunities. Understand parameters like infrastructure, talent, supporting ecosystem and competitive advantages of Andhra Pradesh. Understand the policies, regulatory and legislative environment governing trade and investments in the country, state and other relevant competing states. Study the best practices, case studies and strategies drawn from other states, countries and investment promotion bodies. Draw insights and compile reports by multilateral agencies, advisories, consultancies, annual reports, reports from center and state, corporate presentations and investor presentations for knowledge management.

- Investment Promotion & Export Promotion: Stakeholder engagement & Lead generation. Draw a stakeholder engagement calendar for building robust and sustainable relations across the key and critical stakeholder value chain. The stakeholder engagement calendar should also indicate the timelines for meeting them with clear defined objectives. Assist in conducting, managing and curating events, roadshows, conferences in the state and abroad. Initiate sustained outreach with collaborators, influencers, investors and partners. Facilitate key one-one meetings with CEOs & initiate CEO round tables in select cities across India. Participate in conferences, roadshows, events for building sustainable networks for generating leads. Generate speaking opportunities for relevant officials of the government of Andhra Pradesh. Constantly generate leads and proposals from potential investors and monitor progress for leads and proposals generated. Develop a planned calendar of conferences, events, roadshows, trade shows based on sector, state and country focus for engagement with relevant stakeholders.

- Project Facilitation: Assist the investor in creating Preliminary Project Reports and Detailed Project Reports and review, recommend and finalize them. Review proposals, financial models, project and financial structuring, and make necessary recommendations, as deem fit, to relevant departments. Help negotiate incentives, subsidies and concessions in close coordination with respective line departments. Facilitate potential investors and guide them through the process of grounding projects in Andhra Pradesh. Develop a list and timeline for permits, licenses, clearances required for establishing a unit in the state and country to support investors.

Salary:

Remuneration will be based on sustainability for the role and relevant experience, which will not be a constraint for the right candidate and is negotiable.