• 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 play a key role in transforming the BC portfolio using GenerativeAI? 

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to join the Venture Building Services 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 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.

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' experience working in management consulting or similar, with a focus on Business Process optimisation
• Minimum 2.1 undergraduate degree (in any discipline)
• In-depth understanding of GenerativeAI technologies and their practical applications
• Strong project management skills, demonstrated by successful transformation projects
• Extremely organised and able to project manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• 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 UK’s 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 isn’t 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, you’ll fit right in!

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support BC portfolio transformation using Generative AI for Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
• Streamline and optimise business processes across BC portfolio businesses.
• Integrate Generative AI technologies to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Drive strategic initiatives to align portfolio companies with BC's strategic vision.
• Ensure the successful adoption of new processes and technologies through effective change management.
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and report on the success of transformation initiatives.
• 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 the senior management team 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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