Investment Manager

Job Description

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application

Your Tasks:

• You support and execute the BU New Business Areas' Venture Capital and Independent Energy Infrastructure strategy.
• You create impact for the WEPA Group through successful startup investments and startup collaborations. In addition, you will be involved in the development of renewable energy asset projects and investments.
• You screen, analyze and manage the whole lifecycle of a startup and renewable energy investment opportunity including overall responsibility on the deal flow funnel management.
• You prepare and consolidate Due Diligence materials and will be responsible for state of the art investment memorandums for the final investment decisions.
• You will be strongly involved in managing and developing our Venture Capital and renewable energy portfolio.

Your Profile:

• Qualification: You have a relevant university degree, e.g. in industrial engineering, renewable energies, or economics with focus in finance or strategy.
• Experience and Know-How: You enjoy the complexity of looking across sectors, understanding market sizes, market opportunities, and market timing while simultaneously making fast decisions in relevant topics. Additionally, you have a first understanding of the renewable energy space. You thrive in fast moving environments and you are able to adapt quickly. You have a good understanding of technical requirements and a first understanding of regulatory boundaries and frameworks.
• Personality: You are a strong networker and relationship builder with excellent communication skills. You are an analytical and conceptual strategic thinker with execution mindset. Additionally, you are a fast learner with entrepreneurial driven and strong business sense to seek opportunities.
• Working Style: You thrive in both independent and team-oriented work settings. You have an entrepreneurial spirit, sense of initiative and a strong problem-solving approach. You are project management oriented and capable of not losing the big picture view. You are able to balance an inner drive to deeply understand something with speed.
• Languages: Fluent English is essential and good German skills are preferred.

Your Benefits:

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

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About Us

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With more than 4,000 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We do this because we are convinced of one thing:

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.

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