Team Lead (m/w/d) Strategic Partnerships & Commercial Excellence

In this leadership role, you will build and scale strategic partnerships with OEMs and key ecosystem players, shaping the commercial operating model for cylib’s sourcing and sales. You’ll lead a Partnerships and Commercial Excellence team, driving accountability, coaching, and high performance. You will steer strategic alliances in battery feedstock access, waste battery flows, and cross-value-chain collaboration, while optimizing governance, pipeline visibility, and account planning. Your cross-functional coordination and stakeholder engagement will advance Europe-wide battery supply resilience and circular economy goals.

• Lead and develop the Partnerships and Commercial Excellence team, setting priorities and ownership
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships with OEMs and ecosystem partners for battery feedstock access and offtake
• Identify and advance commercial opportunities in waste battery flows and broader value-chain collaboration
• Structure and continuously improve sourcing and sales processes, including pipeline governance, opportunity tracking, and reporting
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align priorities and raise execution quality
• Engage senior stakeholders and drive strategic account development with high-priority partners

• Several years of experience in strategic partnerships, key account management, business development, or sales
• Experience with large industrial organizations, ideally including OEMs or Tier-1s
• Proven track record of leading teams and developing people with clear ownership and accountability
• Battery industry context to build credible, sustainable partnerships
• Experience structuring and scaling commercial processes to improve execution
• Ability to navigate cross-functional stakeholder environments and drive alignment
• Proficiency with standard CRM systems for pipeline management and visibility
• Strong commercial judgment with analytical and process-oriented thinking
• Clear and confident communication in English and German; other languages a plus

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• People development and coaching
• CRM systems proficiency
• Pipeline management and opportunity tracking
• Account planning and reporting