UKIMEA and Europe Ventures Manager

Description

• Providing guidance and direction to internal members in developing funded ventures. This may involve providing on-the-ground support with activities such as research, workshopping, user interviews and partner engagement.
• Building and reviewing financial models.
• Working with the Global and Regional Ventures team to promote ventures in the Region.
• Acting as a first responder to staff members with venture opportunities to understand their proposition, explore the potential in relation to our investment strategy, and guide first steps.
• Preparing and presenting go/no-go investment memorandum documentation to support key decision-making governance by Ventures and Business stakeholders.
• Maintaining, and tracking the opportunity pipeline and individual and program performance metrics against strategic plans.
• Scoping and evaluating the commercial viability of external investment opportunities alongside Arup’s subject matter experts.
• Supporting the creation of relevant Ventures marketing and collateral.
• Leveraging market research, internal workshops, networking events, social networking, trade shows/events/publications to increase your and Arup’s knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies, and to identify new investment theses and sectors of interest.
• Tracking and managing region portfolio performance metrics.
• Working with the Ventures Lead to run and strengthen opportunity scouting activities in the region, including day-to-day responsibility for managing our scouts network and scaling its impact. This involves working directly with our scouts to filter and shape opportunities as above.
• Supporting Ventures portfolio companies, and Arup teams delivering investment scopes, throughout the period that Arup remains an investor.
• Supporting the creation of pitches, due diligence materials, and relevant proposal collateral.
• Working with external stakeholders (startups, accelerators, incubators, VC funds, and innovation ecosystems relevant to Arup) to identify opportunities.

Requirements

• Relevant work experience, be it financial, commercial and market analysis, managing innovation projects, programme management, external partnering, strategic advisory, and/or engaging with or working in the venture ecosystem.
• Excellent relationship management skills, with demonstrable experience of building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Commitment to teamwork and willingness to work collaboratively with stakeholders from across the Region.
• Strong organisational skills, with demonstratable experience of strategic thinking and an ability to prioritise work while handling multiple complex tasks and projects concurrently.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance