About the Role
This London-based role is part of the European Private Infrastructure Asset Management team, focused on delivering value from investments in companies and assets for clients.
Responsibilities
- Assist in onboarding newly acquired portfolio companies in cooperation with investment teams, Operating Directors, and management.
- Contribute to defining and refreshing strategic plans.
- Assist in implementing value creation opportunities.
- Support ongoing operational improvement, restructuring, or re-engineering initiatives to maximize value creation.
- Develop relationships with management teams, boards of directors, and service providers under senior guidance.
- Support and challenge management teams, participating in board meetings as appropriate.
- Own non-C-level management relationships and act as a sparring partner on strategic workstreams, ensuring sound business cases.
- Ensure a strong operational focus by reviewing financial and operational performance of portfolio companies and tracking goal achievement.
- Support due diligence for prospective investments, focusing on commercial, operational workstreams, and value creation plans.
- Perform activities related to reporting, investment monitoring, market research, internal requests, and marketing.
- Contribute to the continuous development of asset management processes, tools, best practices, and playbooks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required; Master's and/or MBA is a plus.
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
- Ability to understand a private equity underwriting and value creation plan (P&L, CF, BS) and translate it into action items and KPIs.
- Exposure to or interest in transformation programs (strategic planning, implementation support).
- Developing functional knowledge of operations and SG&A functions (operational excellence, cost saving, operational transformation/restructuring, value creation programs), scaling businesses, and implementing buy-and-build strategies.
- Strong analytical and financial skillset.
- Strong team mentality and desire to learn and succeed.
- Comfortable interacting with management teams, communicating on eye-level, and building credibility with senior stakeholders.
- Foundational understanding of integrated business planning (P&L, Cash Flow & Balance Sheet), financing, and valuation.
- Demonstrated strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- Emotionally intelligent with the ability to manage diverse relationships.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Able to work independently on defined tasks while collaborating effectively within the team.
- Team player with strong collaborative skills.
- Comfortable working in an international, fast-moving environment.
- Driven personality, intrinsically motivated.
- Analytical mindset.
- High integrity.
Skills
- Private equity underwriting
- Value creation plan analysis
- Strategic planning
- Implementation support
- Operational excellence
- Cost saving
- Operational transformation
- Operational restructuring
- Business scaling
- Buy-and-build strategies implementation
- Analytical skills
- Financial skills
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership skills
- Communication skills
- Team collaboration
- Independent work
- Business case development
- Integrated business planning
- Financing
- Valuation
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- MBA
Benefits
- Career opportunity in a global, international, and inclusive environment
- Opportunity to learn the business from leading private market specialists
- Growth-oriented entrepreneurial culture with significant development opportunities
About the Company
- Partners Group is a global financial institution that retains the culture, pace, and agility of a start-up.
- As a growing firm, we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best talent, by offering a workplace where results are truly recognized and rewarded.
- We thrive on new ideas for the benefit of our clients, our employees and our community.
- Our working environment is humble, inclusive and transparent and the structure of the firm is flat.
Equal Opportunity
- Be part of equal opportunity employer committed to culture diversity
- Proud to be an equal opportunity employer and support diversity of perspectives.
