About us
At Macmillan you’ll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We’re going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.
About the Directorate setting for the role
The Impact Investment Portfolio (IIIP) work came to live in early 2023 with our first investment in a company called 52 North Health as part of an initial pilot phase. We have since invested in two more companies called Lucida Medical and Leo Cancer Care and are on track to invest in three additional companies by the end of 2024. We’ve completed the first pilot phase successfully and our impact investment work is now core part of Macmillan’s new strategy.
The postholder will provide strategic investment expertise and management of the Macmillan IIIP – playing a leading role in the team, organisation, and with external partners to ensure the expertise, governance and operations needed to deliver both impact for people living with cancer and balanced financial return. This role will play a key role, in helping Macmillan share the future of cancer for the positive benefit of people living with cancer.
Responsibilities:
Please see the role profile on our recruitment portal which outlines the full list of tasks and responsibilities for this role.
Regular travel to our office in London and occasional travel across the UK for work purposes is required.
About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Experience in early-stage investment management, ideally in technology-enabled impact investment, with a strong background in portfolio management and governance.
- Experience in working independently to oversee the effective development of an investment pipeline screening early-stage ventures, including supporting due diligence processes, and developing proposals and finalising investment deals.
- Experience supporting start-ups achieve their growth goals, ideally with a focus on Health Tech and Life Science sectors.
- Experience in monitoring investments, including through active board participating (e.g. board observer seat).
In return, we offer a range of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
- Pension matched up to 7.5%
- 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
- Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
- Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more
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