Consultant

• Are you torn between the excitement of start-ups and the stability of corporate life?
• Are you curious, and do you want to keep learning whilst getting real business building experience?
• Do you want to be an integral part of a thriving business disrupting the market it operates in?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Get ready for an adventure as we launch the UK's flagship entrepreneurial programme in South Africa. We are looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to join the Venture Building Services team! At BC, this role is referred to as a pioneer and it entails working across multiple functions, and supporting Blenheim Chalcots portfolio of businesses.

You will have a unique opportunity to be part of our growing team, offering the energy and excitement of start-up life, the intellectual challenge and variety of consulting and the influence and opportunities of a large business. Blenheim Chalcot has businesses with offices across the globe in London, Tampa, Cape Town and Mumbai to name a few, offering a diverse and multicultural landscape for all employees to learn and grow within. As part of this role, you could have the opportunity to travel to our global offices, providing you with valuable exposure to diverse markets and cultures.

The Pioneer Programme

This role is part of the BC Pioneer Programme; a portfolio-wide community and learning & development programme built exclusively for the future leaders of our ventures and scale-ups.

When embarking on a Pioneer role within our portfolio, you will be exposed to an environment unlike any other and will have the opportunity have a tangible impact on a business going through a continuously evolving period of growth. Alongside your role, you will undertake an 18-month Red Team L&D programme, giving you access to learning materials, training and experts to help you to set up your own career adventure.

The concept of career adventuring is founded on developing your skills and providing you with the necessary tools, coupled with your own personal resilience and attitude to work. This approach is at the heart of the Pioneer programme vision, and both your venture and the Red Team are committed to working with you to help you excel.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Minimum 2 years' work experience
• Minimum 2.1 undergraduate degree (in any discipline)
• Extremely organised and able to project manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• A passion for technology and disruption, with experience in or ambitions to build your own venture in the future
• Emotional intelligence and be compassionate and supportive in nature
• Give evidence of the ability to be a self-starter and be able to adapt to multiple roles in a variety of high-pace environments
• A passion for building your network and capacity to work well with colleagues and stakeholders at C-suite and executive levels

A bit about Blenheim Chalcot and our portfolio:

Blenheim Chalcot is the UKs leading digital venture builder. We build tech businesses that disrupt and transform sectors. We invest more than just funds, we invest our knowledge and experience, our ideas and our infrastructure.

Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries covering FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. You may have heard of some of our growing businesses such as Modulr, ClearScore, Hive Learning, Avado and the Rajasthan Royals.

Our portfolio represents sales of over 400 million, 1.5bn of assets under management, more than 3, 000 employees and a successful track record of over 40 companies. We currently have a portfolio of 19 companies varying in stage from seed to venture to growth.

Impact beyond profit:

Building profitable digital businesses isnt our sole focus. We are also involved in a range of charitable activities with colleagues engaged in mental health initiatives, the education of girls in the developing world, building 21st-century youth facilities in deprived areas, and supporting charities with the use of digital technologies.

Please visit https://www.blenheimchalcot.com/charities for more information.

Our culture:

Our culture across the portfolio is inclusive, modern, friendly, smart and innovative we seek to employ bright, positive thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do if that sounds like you, youll fit right in!

Duties and responsibilities:

• Be an employee of our Venture Builder Services and identify and map out key internal and external business processes, identifying problem areas and provide effective solutions
• Create and design sustainable operating models for the business and clients, deliver solutions & services working with a range of teams, including sales, marketing, content and design
• Identify, establish and build strong internal partnerships and revenue-generating external partnerships, while rolling up your sleeves and doing whatever is required to achieve the goals
• Take part in a variety of informal learning and networking events, which brings groups of people working in the same field together across our ventures, charities and other external organisations
• Additional learning and development programmes, managed and run by our edtech businesses within the portfolio for which all employees are eligible

The process:

We have a rigorous recruitment process which we use for all our roles to ensure we attract the very best and diverse talent.

This will involve an initial telephone conversation, followed by a panel interview and a case study where you will meet with senior management team members over 2 stages. We aspire for every person invited into an interview to find the process as interesting and engaging as we no doubt will.

Individuals seeking employment at Blenheim Chalcot must note we see diversity as a really positive thing that creates a better workplace and delivers better outcomes, so we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone

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