Senior Venture Associate

A career with purpose

Our team is growing and we’re looking for a purpose-driven, passionate individual to join the Venture Support Team, to help start-ups, SMEs and corporations develop solutions in response to resource and sustainability challenges. Our support works to progress technology development and commercial exploitation through several core areas: venture development, delivery of start-up/SME programmes, accelerators, special projects and corporate innovation programmes.

The Role

Delivery Support
- Quickly understanding, assessing and developing start-up business models and market opportunities.
- Creating support plans for SMEs we are working with to prioritise the most relevant support to be provided.
- Providing advisory support to start-ups/SMEs across a broad range of business topics including but not limited to: review and input to business plans, investor pitch packs and investment readiness, advice on financial models, strategy and market placement.
- Preparing and presenting webinars, workshops and clinics on a broad range of business topics.

Project Management
- Working with team members and across the SV Group on assigned projects and programmes, ensuring that time, quality and budget parameters are met;
- Stakeholder relationship management;
- Connecting and building our community of sustainably-focused businesses;
- Building relationships with designated SMEs, capturing relevant information within the Sustainable Venture’s CRM system, identifying and executing opportunities (directly or through referrals to relevant team members) for further revenue generation and;
- Ensuring compliance and maintaining required evidentiary documentation.

**Requirements**:
Delivery Support
- Quickly understanding, assessing and developing start-up business models and market opportunities.
- Creating support plans for SMEs we are working with to prioritise the most relevant support to be provided.
- Providing advisory support to start-ups/SMEs across a broad range of business topics including but not limited to: review and input to business plans, investor pitch packs and investment readiness, advice on financial models, strategy and market placement.
- Preparing and presenting webinars, workshops and clinics on a broad range of business topics.

Project Management
- Working with team members and across the SV Group on assigned projects and programmes, ensuring that time, quality and budget parameters are met;
- Stakeholder relationship management;
- Connecting and building our community of sustainably-focused businesses;
- Building relationships with designated SMEs, capturing relevant information within the Sustainable Venture’s CRM system, identifying and executing opportunities (directly or through referrals to relevant team members) for further revenue generation and;
- Ensuring compliance and maintaining required evidentiary documentation.

/ We expect you to have:

- 6+ years’ relevant experience - our people have worked at high growth startups, started their own businesses, been in the armed forces, come from professional service organisations, studied for MBAs & run fashion brand;;
- Knowledge and/or experience of the sustainability sector, and an understanding of technological and commercial innovation - this could be directly related to your previous roles or something that you have pursued outside of the office;
- A commercial skill set - this might include business planning, financial modelling, product R&D, market research, market analysis/characterisation, customer proposition testing, go-to-market strategy, fundraising or anything related to successfully growing a business;
- A project management skill set - experience of planning and delivering multi-year projects, on time and within budget, utilising effective communication, stakeholder engagement and peer leadership abilities;
- Demonstrable experience in undertaking client-facing work - producing high-quality outputs to time/budget/quality objectives;
- Proven success in meeting revenue/business development targets; and
- Proven organisational skills - for managing multiple projects/clients simultaneously, co-ordinating deliverables and meeting deadlines.

**Benefits**

/ Desirable
- An undergraduate degree in business, technology or sustainability-related field;
- A postgraduate qualification in business, economics, technology or sustainability;
- Experience in venture development and/or sustainability innovation; and
- Motivation to learn about other Sustainable Ventures functions, for example investment, product design and venture development.

/ Remuneration & Benefits
- Remuneration: £46-51k pa (based on experience) + bonus
- Holiday: 25 days per year + Bank Holidays
- Monthly Wellness Day + additional, enhanced benefits

/ Additional details

We’re based at County Hall, on the South Bank. We operate a hybrid working model and this role requires a minimum 3 days a week, working in our vibrant, collaborative work