At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- London
About the role
- Join the CEO Office of a fast-growing startup in the UK to help define and drive company strategy, international expansion, and new routes to market.
- Support the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff across multiple workstreams and project manage critical cross-functional initiatives.
- Produce analysis used to shape future business strategy while working closely with the CEO and leadership team.
Responsibilities
- Assess markets for potential entry by evaluating sizing, competitor and regulatory landscape, entry model options, and providing recommendations.
- Assess companies for potential investment, partnership, or acquisition through meetings, desk research, commercial case building, and fit and risk evaluation.
- Coordinate and input to deal execution, including due diligence work streams across finance, legal, product, and operations.
- Support post-acquisition integration by tracking milestones and keeping work moving across teams.
- Help define new strategic bets, ranging from new routes to market to the rollout of the new platform.
- Build business cases and track progress against OKRs.
- Project manage critical strategic work streams across product, GTM, delivery, finance, and other business areas.
- Set clear owners, milestones, and timelines to keep work moving forward proactively.
- Surface blockers early and bring the CEO Office in only where it adds value.
- Support organizational changes during scaling, including new ways of working and the launch of new products and markets.
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years at a leading strategy consultancy, with exposure to growth, market entry, or corporate development (backgrounds in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, or high-growth operating roles will also be considered).
- Very AI literate, utilizing AI tools across all work beyond just a chatbot.
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial approach with comfort in wearing multiple hats and solving problems creatively.
- Highly commercial, strategic, and rigorous analytical capability to inform decisions shaping future strategy.
- Exceptionally organized with strong tracking capabilities.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays per year
- 1 life event day
- 2 volunteer days
- 2 company-wide wellbeing days (M-Powered Weekend)
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
- Medical cashback scheme
- Life insurance
- Gym membership & wellness resources through Wellhub
- Access to Spill mental health support
- Stocked kitchen
Workplace
- Hybrid work offering requiring collaboration in the office three days per week.
Skills
- AI Tools
- Market Entry
- Corporate Development
- Due Diligence
- Cross-functional Project Management
