Portfolio Impact Manager

2 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Blenheim Chalcot Full time

**Portfolio Impact Manager**
- **Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?**:

- **Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on, entrepreneurial, business building experience?**:

- **Do you want to have the opportunity to build and grow successful business functions for us globally?**

**If so, we would love to hear from you**

We are looking to hire high-energy, entrepreneurial and value-adding talent to join Blenheim Chalcot, a leading global venture builder, to build and grow our regional capabilities in South Africa - the latest geographical footprint we have made

**ABOUT US**

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. Headquartered in London from our flagship White City Scale Space campus, we have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 20 years. Blenheim Chalcot is responsible for building some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world - with significant operations in India and the US, as well as emerging operations in South Africa and Southeast Asia.

Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries being disrupted by digital including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. Our portfolio has been conceived and launched by us and employ over 3,000 employees. Our assets under management stand at more than £1.8bn and total portfolio sales is over £500 million.

Our team, Venture Builder Services (VBS), exists to support our ventures to be successful quickly, sustainably and with access to the best practice tools, solutions, and expertise. We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax.

**IMPACT BEYOND PROFIT**

15% of our partnerships and ventures are charities. These include the British Asian Trust, BabyZone and Onside Youth Zones. In the same way that we support our ventures, our Partners provide direct hands-on support to these charities by being active board members and offering expert advice.

**OUR BEHAVIOURS**
- Honesty and integrity - trustworthy
- Resilience - keeps going when the going gets tough, remains optimistic in the face of challenges, open to feedback and willingness to change and experiment
- Team work - is collaborative and supportive, elevating and developing others to deliver results
- Innovation - restless to improve, challenges how to make things better
- Deliver results - keeps promises, drives to achieve, commitment to high quality work
- People awareness - collaborative and supportive, respectful
- Commercial awareness - looks for best value solutions for the business, understand costs / revenues, spends money wisely

**THE ROLE**

**Key Responsibilities**

The Portfolio Impact Manager (PIM) is a vital role within the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio. BC PIM's exposure could include running the incubation and growth of a new venture or engaging with a portfolio business to provide critical strategic and operating capabilities where it is needed most. We are expanding our footprint internationally and have growing operations in South Africa. A core part of this will bringing in a leader to be responsible for the BC South Africa operations, ensuring operational efficiency as well as driving business growth.

**Specific Duties**

The scope of work will be vast, so you must be comfortable doing the following:

- Be able to transition between ventures with the ability to ramp up quickly on market, company, team and/or function build and own the business case.
- Be point for all elements of incubating the venture.
- Drive business impact/change 'from start to finish': initial scoping, strategy formulation, analysis, action plan, execution.
- Own and deliver the program of work: put a structure around it, break it down into discrete pieces with clearly defined outputs.
- Work in a highly entrepreneurial environment, focusing on execution and ensuring plans come to fruition.
- Consistently build strong relationships with stakeholders centrally and in the portfolio companies.
- Develop and contracting relationships with other businesses; and
- Lead and manage teams.

**Opportunity**

This role is an excellent platform for experienced professionals to take their career to the next level and an opportunity unlikely to be found anywhere else. You will have the opportunity to work in a variety of sectors and at different stages of the venture lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on having an intentional and continuous learning culture at Blenheim Chalcot. As such, your ability to impact venture success will be amplified by access to shared learnings from leaders across the portfolio as well as the centrally located Venture Builder Services team. As a part of this role, you will also have the opportunity to take part in our cross-portfolio leadership development programme, Impact Boost, which aims

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