Strategy Consultant (VC / PE / Start-up / Scale-up)

Full Job Description

Overview:

As an Investment Strategy Consultant and Flight Fund, you will play a critical role in ensuring the success and growth of our portfolio brands and founders. You will be responsible for providing support and guidance to our founders. You will offer consultancy services and support across a wide range of business-related functions, from our smaller investments to larger, established brands. You will coordinate the execution of our contracted obligations with the personal branding team and the brands’, and additionally provide day-today support services.Once the portfolio is efficiently set-up regarding its infrastructure and ways of working, your next task will be to establish Flight School; an accelerator program designed to nurture and accelerate new ventures within our portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting Portfolio Brands and Founders: Provide comprehensive support and guidance to portfolio brands and founders, ensuring their success and growth within the portfolio.
• Managing Steven’s availability: Ensure that Steven remains available for contracted services and engagements, facilitating effective communication and collaboration between him and portfolio brands.
• Consultancy Services: Offer consultancy services across various business functions, including marketing, operations, finance, and strategic planning, tailored to meet the unique needs of each brand.
• Supporting Small to Large Investments: Provide support and assistance to both small and large investments within the portfolio, offering strategic guidance and resources as needed.
• Parachuting into Teams: Act as a resource for portfolio teams, offering day-to-day support and assistance to address challenges and drive progress across all business-related functions.
• Establishing Flight School: Develop and implement Flight School, an accelerator program designed to nurture and accelerate new ventures within our portfolio, providing mentorship, resources, and support to emerging entrepreneurs.
• Monitoring Portfolio Performance: Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of portfolio brands and investments, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions as necessary.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with portfolio brands, founders, and other stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience in investment management, portfolio management, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of business operations, finance, marketing, and strategic planning.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - great relationship manager with the ability to build rapport and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to assess complex situations and develop practical solutions.
• Proactive and results-driven approach, with a strong focus on driving portfolio growth and success.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Join Us:

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the success of our portfolio brands and founders, as well as to shape the future of entrepreneurship through the establishment of Flight School. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for investment management and supporting entrepreneurial ventures, we encourage you to apply.

Our Values:

Our first principles and values for every person in our companies no matter their tenure, experience or status, are the same.

You will be an endlessly ambitious, passionate professional. An emotionally intelligent, resilient leader and a trusted, empathetic co worker. A life-long student of your craft no matter whether it’s day 1 or day 1001. A brave, proactive experimentalist, obsessed with the 1% and marginal gains. An open, compelling, collaborative communicator, an attentive listener and friend.

How We Work:

Flight Fund is passionate about uniting and bringing people together. We're all about embracing the power of our entire team – that means weaving diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do. Being a global force shaping culture, we're all about amplifying the vibrant tapestry of voices, both within our walls and out there in the world. Because that's how we roll, and that's how we succeed in our mission

If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs.

The Process:

We appreciate the time taken to apply for the role and your recent interest in Flight Fund. We will review all applications within five working days and be in touch with those who have been shortlisted to the next stage. Unfortunately, due to volume we are not able to get back to everyone individually so if you have not heard back from us unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion and wish you all the best in your search.

• Tele Interview - Meet the talent team
• 1st Interview (Virtual) - Meet your peers
• 2nd Stage (Face to Face)- Meet your manager
• Final Stage (Virtual / Face to Face)- Meet the leadership