Pioneer - Venture Building Services

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!

We are looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to join the BC team in the UK! The role would be working across multiple functions, and supporting Blenheim Chalcot's portfolio of businesses. You will have a unique opportunity to be part of our 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.

The Pioneer Programme is 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 to have a tangible impact on a business going through a phase of market expansion. Alongside your role, you will undertake a 15-month RedTeam L&D programme, giving you access to learning materials, training and experts to help you to set up your own career adventure.

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
• Evidence of the ability to be a self-starter and 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

At Blenheim Chalcot, we use our ideas infrastructure and people to create an innovation system that transforms disruptive ideas into innovative businesses. We originate the ideas ourselves, grow them from the ground up and take them through to scaling and ultimately exit. We typically build enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) products, powered by Generative AI and target industries which are exposed to market, regulatory or technology discontinuities.

Our track record has seen us build more than 60 businesses over the last 25+ years. The portfolio has annual revenues of £500m, employs more than 3,000 people, has raised £600m in equity, and secured exits totalling over £1bn.

Building profitable digital businesses isn’t our sole focus. We are also involved in a range of charitable activities from the education of girls in the developing world to building 21st-century youth facilities in deprived areas.

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, you’ll fit right in!

Duties:

• Be an employee of the BC team and identify and map out key internal and external business processes, identifying problem areas and providing effective solutions
• Create and design sustainable operating models for the business and clients, delivering 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

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 that business's management team and the Chief Operating team over 2 stages.

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.