CEO/MD/Managing Director - new private equity backed buy-build group

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CEO/MD/Managing Director – New Private Equity Backed Buy-Build Group, Belfast

Client: Reed- UNLIMITED

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU Work Permit Required: Yes

Job Views: 4

Posted: 14.03.2025

Expiry Date: 28.04.2025

Job Description:

Independence Capital (“IC”) is a hybrid private equity & advisory firm specializing in seeding new buy-build strategies. IC provides a management-friendly alternative to legacy private equity for three types of teams and leaders:

• Enabling teams and leaders who have recently exited and wish to utilize that experience on a similar buy-build while retaining control.
• Enabling teams and leaders from within a best-in-class corporate who wish to utilize that experience to build a new group while retaining control.
• Enabling second-line management in high performing SMEs to buy-out their incumbent majority shareholder.

IC’s thesis is to acquire £2m to £15m turnover assets off-market and aggregate them to an ultimate exit-scale of approximately £7-10m EBITDA (across a 3-5 year time horizon) before initiating a dual-track exit process to Trade or Private Equity.

We are sector agnostic (but have deep expertise in B2B SME non-discretionary and recurring services) and instead build around the experience and ideas of the teams and leaders we choose to work with. This advert is not for a specific role but instead to identify the leaders and teams we may choose to start a new strategy with in 2025. Typically, our time to transact on a new strategy is 3-6 months. To date, we have assisted leaders from around the world who have exited for over £2bn.

Requirements:

• Over 7 years of experience at Board level.
• Over 10 years of experience in a particular single sector.
• Demonstrable track record of regularly delivering scale and EBITDA growth.
• Prior PE experience and/or delivery of exits are desirable but not essential.
• For outstanding candidates, consideration would be given to Finance, Operations, Commercial, and Product leaders stepping into their first MD role.
• Location agnostic but generally preferred that candidates are or can be based in North-West, Midlands, or Yorkshire to be proximate to IC head office.

Package:

Industry-leading equity reward & salary packages along with support to scale/exit.

Recognizing IC’s unique equity award – all candidates will be expected to seed the acquisition vehicle with a meaningful capital commitment (if you are not comfortable investing a six-figure sum, please do not apply).

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