- 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.
Team Lead (m/w/d) Strategic Partnerships & Commercial Excellence
Aachen, Hybrid
Full-time
Permanent employee
Your mission
In this leadership role, you unlock strategically relevant partnerships with OEMs and other large industrial players, and build the commercial operating model that makes cylib's sourcing and sales organization more effective and scalable. You lead a team, set direction, and create the conditions for high performance:
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.
- Depending on your qualifications and experience, your annual salary can be up to €90,000 to €115,000 gross.
About us
cylib is a German battery recycling company that emerged from research at RWTH Aachen University in 2022. With an integrated network of sites, we bring together research and development at our headquarters in Aachen, dismantling and mechanical processing in Wernberg-Köblitz, and hydrometallurgical processing in Dormagen (in ramp-up). Our goal: building a resilient European value chain through the recovery of high-quality materials for sustainable batteries.
With our innovative OLiC technology (Optimized Lithium and Graphite Recovery), we recover over 90% of the contained raw materials – with a CO2 footprint that is 80% lower than conventional processes. Towards the realization of a true circular economy in the European market.
With our innovative OLiC technology (Optimized Lithium and Graphite Recovery), we recover over 90% of the contained raw materials – with a CO2 footprint that is 80% lower than conventional processes. Towards the realization of a true circular economy in the European market.
Interested?
Please upload your documents (a cover letter is not necessay) and answer the questions in the application form.
We look forward to receiving your application!