Vice President Private Equity - U.S.

Egeria Boston is looking for a Vice President to join the team. This role offers an excellent opportunity to use your passion for entrepreneurship and investing within Private Equity. You will be challenged to develop quickly by actively participating in building a new private equity business in the U.S. and working with the firm’s current U.S. portfolio.

About the Vice President Role

As a Vice President, you are a senior member of the firm and a key participant in both growing the organization and completing transactions.

On the transaction side, you are responsible for the entire investment process; from finding new investment opportunities, further expanding the companies to selling a portfolio company. You develop your own investment proposals, market analyses and manage the sourcing. You are able to independently manage a deal (purchase and sale) and you report in outline to a partner. You will assess strategies, financial models, conduct due diligence and arrange bank financing.

In the post-deal phase, you will work on creating winning management teams, implementing and monitoring the value creation agenda, performance analyses, strategy, add-on acquisitions and recapitalizations. You are responsible, in the role of shareholder, for 2 to 3 portfolio companies and are the first day-to-day point of contact for management teams (CEO/CFO) of the portfolio companies.

In addition, you will have an important role in managing, developing and coaching the Associates. For the involvement in the portfolio companies and transactions, the team consists of a partner, an investment manager (VP) and an associate.

When you work at Egeria, you are part of a family. We are focused on results, but we think it is just as important how we achieve that result. By building together, learning from each other and celebrating successes together. There is a lot of room for personal development and training.

Responsibilities

• Active sourcing of new investment opportunities. Proactive industry research and focus on expansion of the Egeria network
• Direct responsibility during the investment process for new platform investments and add-on acquisitions
• Day to day management of portfolio companies. Active support and involvement in key strategic, human capital, financial and operational projects
• Trusted sparring partner for founders and management teams
• Initially more sourcing given nature of new office and relatively small existing portfolio
• Coaching and developing associates

Investment Approach (Evergreen)

The U.S. team will initially invest capital as part of the firm’s Evergreen strategy. Eqeria’s Evergreen fund currently has 7 portfolio companies (1 in the U.S., 6 in Europe). We stand out from many other mid-market investors by our investment horizon of 10+ years per company and by our flexibility to invest in both Europe and the US.

Evergreen is currently active in the HVAC, Aviation and Digital Media segments and we also intend to make new investments in a select number of other sectors with the aim of being active in 5 to 6 segments. Egeria Evergreen's investment team consists of 2 Partners, an Investment Director, three Investment Managers and two Associates. The U.S. team consists of 1 partner and 1 Investment Manager (VP).

What We Offer

• Key role in a newly established geography of a 25-year old European private equity firm

• Good further career opportunities with an internationally growing fund

• Extensive opportunities for (professional) education and training, with the aim of promoting continuous growth and strengthening (individual) skills

• Many responsibilities during the investment processes and the further development of the companies

• Clear path to advancement

• Working in an international setting with an investment focus on the US and Europe

• Competitive compensation

Application Process

For a complete application, we would like to ask for your CV/resume, college transcripts and a motivation letter. After your application, you will hear within five working days whether you have been invited for the first round of interviews, consisting of one or two interviews. Cases are an important part of these interviews, but questions will also be asked about your motivation and your personal experience. Within two days you will call with feedback and hopefully an invitation for the second round. The second round consists of several interviews where you can expect cases again. When you successfully complete these conversations, you will receive an offer. Screening is part of the application procedure and is carried out after we have reached an agreement on terms and conditions of employment.

Work experience

• At least 4 years of relevant work experience in a professional working environment, e.g. private equity, venture capital, investment banking, (strategy) consultancy, M&A, own company or a combination thereof

• Experience in entrepreneurship and/or working with entrepreneurs is appreciated

Education

• Completed degree with excellent academic results
• Advanced degree in any field is a plus

Requirements

• High level of curiosity, grit and passion
• Sense of business; Interest in business, investing and value creation
• An entrepreneurial mindset and taking initiative are a must
• Highly developed leadership
• Analytically strong, critical of content
• Take ownership and responsibility
• Excellent communication and social skills
• Non-hierarchial / team player
• Ambitious, results oriented and professional
• Broad social interest and sense of humor

Questions?

Do you have any questions about the vacancy or would you like to have more information? Please contact Emilie de Muinck Keizer (People Lead) at edemuinckkeizer@egeriagroup.com.