Venture Development Manager (MBA Graduate)

Nova Founders Capital

JOB DESCRIPTION Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about building new and exciting ventures? If so, you might be our Venture Associate.   ABOUT US Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.   WHAT WE OFFER YOU As our Venture Associate, you’ll get a unique growth opportunity in a role that is crucial to reaching our strategic goals. You will expand, build, and run parts of our portfolio companies, which means assuming responsibility for high-impact decisions that will develop you to be part of the next generation of CEOs. Attaining the extraordinary means investing lots of time, effort, and moving fast when new insights or opportunities arise. In this process we will be there with you, providing the right questions, sparring and guidance needed. Depending on your interests and our businesses needs, you’ll be working out of one of our offices in Europe. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with: * A workplace with great talents and leaders that will inspire and challenge you on a daily basis * Responsibility for high impact projects that constantly push you out of your comfort zone and gives you the opportunity to be the best you can * International exposure where you will expand your c-suite network and get unique access to our network of leaders and investors * Projects that will fast-track you to become CEO, CMO, or CFO of a company in Our Group   YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Your tasks will vary, but some of your responsibilities will be: * Driving projects, such as starting new ventures, creating stellar marketing operations, crafting and executing sales strategies or recruiting and leading A+ teams – basically anything related to building new companies * Developing and executing strategies as you gain new insights * Supporting expansion and daily operations   WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you: * Have acquired a Bachelor or Masters Degree with outstanding results * Have experience from a start-up, consultancy, bank, or top tier organisation * Have an EU/UK work permit * Possess exceptional analytical and structured problem solving skills * Have a genuine interest in learning and is proactively looking for ways to improve * Have a genuine interest in learning and act on the desire    START DATE As soon as possible.

HRtechX

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Senior Venture Associate. About us HRtechX is a world leading HRtech community, connecting industry executives, entrepreneurs and professionals. We are a start-up on a growth journey who help leaders evolve and create stronger businesses through people and technology. We aim to address the challenges and opportunities for HR and HR Tech. We bring together the most influential executives, investors, and entrepreneurs to share their insights on how technology will shape the future of HR, as well as forge long lasting partnerships and client relationships. HRtechX is part of United Media (https://www.united-media.com/) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc.  What we offer you As our Senior Venture Associate you get the unique opportunity of being a key driver of our exponential growth curve. You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with: * Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business. * Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company. * Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally. * Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas. * Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training. Your Responsibilities Responsibilities in this job will be defined as we work together throughout the recruitment process however, they will be mostly centred around: * Driving projects related to growing new companies: starting new ventures, creating stellar marketing operations, crafting and executing sales strategies or recruiting leading A+ teams. * Becoming an industry expert to develop and execute effective strategies. * Being a key driver of expansion and excellent daily operations. * To dream big and pursue it relentlessly! What we expect from you We are looking for experienced business managers to help us reach our objectives. Industry experience is not a requirement, but you do need to be highly ambitious, forward-thinking and driven to inspire and lead our team. Furthermore, having a UK work permit is also a requirement.  Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who: * Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do; * Possess and unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency; * Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments; * Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations; * Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing; * Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work. Startdate Flexible Monday - Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work.

Nova Founders Capital

JOB DESCRIPTION Are you an experienced or aspiring Associate ? Are you passionate about building companies and searching for your next opportunity to lead a backed start-up or scale-up? And do you want to be part of an ambitious, fast-growing environment with experienced founders and entrepreneurs? Then you might be our next Search Fund Associate  About Us Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment group that creates and invests in business models of the future. Nova Founders Capital’s management team have started 30+ companies over the last 10 years and have exited companies through sale and IPO, backed by investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alibaba, Peter Thiel and The World Bank. Our Mission  On our journey to empower ambitious and extraordinary talents, we have created the opportunity to become a CEO through a Search Fund. Besides investing in and building large-scale fast growing business models, we have created an investment vehicle to invest in the right founders and CEOs to find a business venture they can excel in and support them in their journey to create extraordinary companies.  What We Offer You Nova Founders Capital are searching for experienced or aspiring Associate for their Search Funds. You will get the unique opportunity to acquire or start new companies to expand our existing portfolio, or become Associate of an existing company within our portfolio.  You will become part of an ambitious network and have a dedicated Board of Directors consisting of experienced founders, board members and CEOs that have started, acquired, built and exited various companies.  Your Responsibilities As Associate, you will have the sole responsibility of building and growing your business. Specific tasks vary to the specific stage and company, and will include: * Build a world-class organisation * Build, lead, develop and motivate an exceptional team  * Define and execute strategies to drive results across all functions * Recruit the right people and constantly develop the employee * Be fully responsible for the P&L and day-to-day operations What do we expect from you * Strong work ethic with a sense of urgency * Exceptional drive and desire to be the best at what you do * Proactive approach and sense of ownership/responsibility of everything you do * A humble approach and share our passion for building companies and developing people * Interested in continuous learning and proactively searching for ways to optimise * Min. a bachelor or master degree with great results * Top tier acedemics, maybe with an MBA * 3-7 years at a top tier consulting firm, investment bank, start up or company Expected start date We are hiring on a continuous basis.