The Details
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000
Job type: Permanent
Based in London, Manchester, or Cheltenham
Start date: As soon as possible
ABOUT PLEXAL
The Role’s Purpose
A newly created role to support the launch of the new Plexal proposition, the Growth Partnership. This role will onboard start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs into a 1-to-1 growth support programme where the Senior Growth Partner leads a team of Growth Partners who will be embedded into a small number of high potential companies. The Senior Growth Partner may also manage a small-volume portfolio of more complex or high value companies who participate in the Growth Partnership.
Plexal is driving a new category of intervention in support of the UK Government’s number one mission of economic growth. You can read more about the Growth Partnership here: https://www.plexal.com/plexal-sme-support-system-growth-partnership/
What You’ll Do
- This role will be responsible for collaborating with the start-ups, scale-ups, and SMEs to draft a growth strategy, agree on critical milestones and to support the execution of those milestones to ensure the success and growth of the organisation
- They will also be responsible for for team management, management information, reporting, benefits realisation, and commercial success of the proposition
Your Skills
- You will have demonstrable experience and skills in:
- customer and stakeholder engagement,
- project management,
- business strategy,
- analytical and data,
- financial acumen,
- It would be desirable if you awareness or passion in emerging technologies and their applications
Who You Are
- The ideal candidate will have had between 6 years + experience working in a fast-paced commercial environment where they have outperformed their peer group and can evidence accordingly
- The successful Growth Partner will display selflessness, passion to drive others success, teamwork, an interest in technology, high levels of commercial acumen, presentation skills and stakeholder management
This role might require achieving SC clearance. Pre-existing SC welcome. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting
BENEFITS PACKAGE
Why us?
Plexal’s Values:
Mission: We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.
Collaboration: We believe in the power of working together.
Equality: We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.
Care: People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.
As a start-up, we thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment dedicated to empowering innovators. We embrace individuals who leverage technology and creativity to tackle our greatest challenges head-on. We strongly advocate for maintaining a harmonious work-life balance, our goal is to ensure every member of our team can authentically be themselves and live their best lives. We firmly believe that innovation and creativity flourish when we cultivate a diverse workforce, comprising highly skilled individuals with a wide range of perspectives to contribute.
In return we will offer you:
· Salary: £60,000 – £70,000 depending on skills and experience
· Annual bonus scheme
· A generous pension scheme (with a company contribution of up to 10%)
· Private healthcare, life assurance and critical illness cover
· 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
· Volunteering day
We also host a range of networking events each month, from fortnightly breakfasts and member drinks to learning and development workshops and meetups like Cyber Lates.
To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
Interested? Please apply now!
Plexal is an equal opportunities employer.
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