Operations Strategy Analyst

Job title:

Operations Strategy Analyst

Company

Blenheim Chalcot

Job description

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 one of our exciting new ventures – Scale Space – the award-winning Joint Venture with Imperial College London – within the portfolio at Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s most successful venture builder.The role – Operations Strategy Analyst – will offer 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, Cape Town, Tampa and Mumbai to name a few, offering a diverse and multicultural landscape for all employees to learn and grow within.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 £500 million, £1.8bn of assets under management, more than 4,000 employees and a successful track record of over 40 companies. We currently have a portfolio of over 26 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 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!The Pioneer ProgrammeThis 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.Duties:

• Identify areas for improvement across the business and provide effective solutions – scope and support projects to improve business performance, working with a range of teams across the business.
• Be the ‘product owner’ for key systems and processes, ensuring the wider team has the right tools to achieve their objectives.
• Support and develop supplier and internal relationships, while rolling up your sleeves and doing whatever is required to achieve the goals.
• Support on projects to help improve performance in Imperial’s ‘I-HUB’ building (which is 2 mins North of Scale Space White City and an extension of the Scale Space community)
• 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.
• Attend additional learning and development programmes, managed and run by Blenheim Chalcot centrally.
• This is a key role with high impact and high visibility across the team, and we would expect the successful candidate to have potential to sit within the SLT (senior leadership team) within 3-5 years – or alternatively secure an exciting role within one of the other fast growth portfolio businesses.

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 that businesses management team and the Chief Operating 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.Blenheim Chalcot is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values, thus making it core to our business. We strive to maximise the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from everyone. We encourage diversity through perspective, background, identity, and thought whilst also fostering an environment where everyone can express themselves regardless of your race, religion, sex, gender, colour, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We are committed to continuing to nurture an inclusive environment and building a diverse workforce.By submitting your CV you understand that we have a legitimate interest to use your personal data for the purposes of assessing your eligibility for this role. This means that we may use your personal data to contact you to discuss your CV or arrange an interview, or transfer your CV to the hiring manager(s) of the role you have applied for. You can ask us at any time to remove your CV from our database by emailing – but please note that this means we will no longer consider you for the role you have applied for. You can review our privacy policy .

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Location

London

Job date

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:06:01 GMT

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