Website TALENTspy
German Private Equity Fund specialized in Climate and Sustainability
The company
Our client is a young, dynamic and very successful German private equity fund with a focus on Climate solution and Sustainability projects. For their portfolio management team, they are interested to hire Operations Directors (m/f/d) who should either support the CEO in the portfolio firm during the transformation or take on an executive management role in the portfolio company themselves. This can be as a “CEO Buy & Build”.
Your tasks
- Pre-transaction: Participation in the deal process and due diligence, especially on operational, strategic and management matters including development of robust improvement/restructuring concepts and business cases
- Post-transaction: taking on an executive management position in a specific portfolio company either as a wing-man to support the CEO or in an interim executive management position on their own
- Short-term career perspectives: to become a CEO of a future portfolio company
Your profile
- 6-12 years of professional experience from a top tier strategy consulting firm and additional operational experience with P&L responsibility, line management or as General Manager
- Ideally mid-market (German ‘Mittelstand’) exposure or at least “mind-set”
- Outstanding academic credentials and steady & consistent career progression
- Willingness to travel and work on-site at the portfolio companies
- Highly ambitious and motivated
- Hands-on, ‘get-things-done’ type of person
- Excellent German & English language skills
To apply for this job email your details to a.christl@talentspy.de
Managing Partner
Andreas Christl founded TALENTspy more than 20 years ago and leads the firm as Managing Partner. He focuses on transformation, restructuring, strategy and C-level roles, working with private equity firms, corporates and management consultancies. He brings more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and in international managing director and senior management roles. His career spans large groups (Degussa AG, Süd-Chemie AG, Gimborn GmbH) as well as young growth companies, and has taken him time and again to other countries and cultures. Andreas grew up in Barcelona and speaks German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
