Business Development Analyst

Living Roots

Business Development Analyst connecting research and funding opportunities in regenerative agriculture and AI. Enabling propositions and partnerships to help farmers across Southeast Asia.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeChiang Mai • 🇹🇭 ThailandJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Turn research and technology into grants, partnerships, and proposals.
Identify and track grant opportunities, Thai innovation programs, regional agri-innovation funds, climate and sustainability grants, and foundation and development-bank programs.
Write and assemble competitive proposals, pulling research, trial data, and impact narratives into reviewer-ready documents.
Manage submission calendars, eligibility, co-applicants, and post-award reporting.
Work with agribusinesses, input distributors, and large growers to scope exactly what information, trial data, or product specs they need.
Build proposals, one-pagers, and ROI models that connect our products to a partner's economics.
Develop relationships with farmer cooperatives, grower associations, and agricultural NGOs to extend our work to more farmers.
Package research and protocols into accessible formats for these audiences without losing rigor.
Help shape how our diagnostic and knowledge tools reach farmers and partners.
Track competitor products, claims, and pricing; help us position on evidence rather than marketing.
Develop stories that open ESG and climate funding.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2-5 years in business development, grant writing, agribusiness, agtech, development/NGO programs, or technical consulting (strong recent graduates with the right aptitude considered).
Excellent written English; Thai fluency strongly preferred (regional languages a plus).
Ability to read technical material and translate it for non-technical and funder audiences.
Strong project management: you can run multiple deadlines and partners without dropping threads.
Comfort with numbers: simple ROI models, reading trial results, summarizing data.
Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day work.
Genuine interest in regenerative agriculture, soil health, and sustainability.
Nice to Have Background in agronomy, agricultural economics, environmental science, or a related field.
Existing relationships with Thai/SEA cooperatives, universities, agribusinesses, or funding bodies.
Experience with grant-management or CRM tools.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work at the intersection of regenerative agriculture, AI, and real farmer impact.
High autonomy and direct access to the founder and the research and product teams.
A chance to shape how an evidence-first company scales across Southeast Asia.
Scale regenerative farmer to all over the Global South!

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Hard Skills & Tools

grant writingbusiness developmentROI modelsproject managementdata summarizationtechnical consultingagtechagronomyagricultural economicsenvironmental science

Soft Skills

excellent written EnglishThai fluencyability to translate technical materialstrong project managementcomfort with numbersgenuine interest in sustainabilityrelationship buildingcommunication skillsorganizational skillsadaptability