Executive Manager / Director – Center for Geopolitics and Corporate Strategy (m/f/d)

**Executive Manager / Director – Center for Geopolitics and Corporate Strategy (m/f/d)** ======================================================================================== 80-100 % (starting 01.01.2027 - 2033 or by mutual agreement) **Your tasks** -------------- * **Strategic Development and Operational Leadership:** Drive the implementation and further development of the Center's strategy, strengthen its profile and positioning, and oversee its day-to-day operations, resources, administrative processes, and future team development. * **Research-to-Practice Translation:** Translate academic research into actionable insights for corporate leaders and investors through executive briefings, white papers, publications, frameworks, decision-support tools, and other knowledge-transfer formats. * **Corporate Partnerships and Business Development:** Develop trusted relationships with senior executives, investors, companies, industry associations, and institutional partners; identify areas where academic expertise can address concrete business challenges; and structure collaborations, partner-funded projects, and other opportunities contributing to the Center's financial sustainability. * **Geopolitical Intelligence and Applied Projects:** Initiate and coordinate projects that assess how geopolitical, regulatory, and technological developments affect corporate strategy, investment decisions, market exposure, and international business. * **Strategic Positioning, Thought Leadership, and Communications:** Shape the Center's external positioning and intellectual profile; develop its media and thought-leadership strategy; translate academic expertise into formats relevant to business and public debate; and strengthen engagement with corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, and international media. * **Fundraising:** Identify and develop funding opportunities with corporate, institutional, philanthropic, and other external partners. * **Project and Program Management:** Initiate, coordinate, and manage interdisciplinary projects across the Center's focus areas, ensuring effective collaboration between academic experts, external partners, and senior stakeholders. * **Executive Education and Events:** Develop and coordinate executive education offerings, speaker series, conferences, workshops, and other formats that connect academic expertise with business practice. **Your profile** ---------------- * A proactive, entrepreneurial, and results-oriented personality with strong strategic thinking, sound judgment, and execution skills. * An excellent university degree in business administration, economics, political science, international relations, law, or a related field. A doctoral degree or relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage. * Several years of professional experience in strategy, business development, management consulting, corporate affairs, geopolitical advisory, executive education, project management, or a related field. * Dem