# Team Lead (m/w/d) Strategic Partnerships & Commercial Excellence at Cylib Gmbh

> Location unclear · Staff · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Acylib-gmbh%3A2721391 (read 2026-11-15).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Cylib Gmbh](https://alderhq.app/companies/cylib-gmbh)
- Location text: Aachen; Hybrid
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Location unclear (evidence: "Location: Aachen; Hybrid")
- Posted: 2026-07-21 (118 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-08
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://cylib-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/job/2721391

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted

## Description (the employer's text)

### Your mission

- You lead, develop, and grow the partnerships and commercial excellence team – setting priorities, providing coaching, and creating clear ownership and accountability.
- You develop and own strategic partnerships relevant to cylib's battery feedstock access and offtake, with a particular focus on OEMs and related ecosystem partners.
- You identify and progress commercial opportunities connected to waste battery flows, including production scrap and end-of-life batteries, and broader value chain collaboration models.
- You support and lead the structure and continuous improvement of cylib's sourcing and sales processes – from pipeline governance and opportunity tracking to account planning, decision gates, and reporting.
- You work cross-functionally across the organization to align priorities and raise execution quality.
- You contribute directly to senior stakeholder engagement and strategic account development with high-priority partners.
### Your profile

- You have several years of experience in strategic partnerships, key account management, business development, or sales, and you've worked with or within large industrial organizations, ideally including OEMs or Tier-1s.
- You have led teams before and know how to develop people, set direction, and build accountability, while staying hands-on enough to understand what the work actually requires.
- You bring enough battery industry context to build credible and sustainable partnerships based on trust and excellence.
- You have a proven track record of structuring and scaling commercial processes to improve execution.
- You are able to navigate cross-functional stakeholder environments and drive alignment across internal and external parties.
- You are proficient with standard CRM systems and use them to bring visibility and discipline to pipeline management.
- You combine strong commercial judgment with analytical and process-oriented thinking – you see both the deal and the system behind it.
- You communicate clearly and confidently with internal and external stakeholders, in both English and German; other languages are a strong plus.
### Why us?

- You take ownership from day one – after an intensive onboarding, you'll build something unique with us and shape outcomes with real impact on results.
- You work on something that truly matters – with your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circular economy a reality on an industrial scale.
- You're part of a mission-driven team – in a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration, because we can only move things forward together.
- You work to the highest standards – we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative power of a top-tier, research-driven technology team.
- You grow with us – at cylib, you will do what is likely to be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.

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