Hybrid Entrepreneur Partner

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About the role

  • Entrepreneur Partner at SMEVentures coaching searchers to acquire and manage SMEs while providing strategic guidance and emotional support throughout the deal lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Coach searchers through the deal lifecycle: target identification, business evaluation, transaction execution. Help them apply an investment lens, submit well-qualified LOIs, and close strong deals.
  • Provide real support through a hard journey: not just strategic guidance, but the emotional steadiness that searcher fund entrepreneurs need to stay grounded through setbacks and make good decisions under pressure.
  • Serve on portfolio company boards: become a trusted advisor to our CEOs, helping them build strategic plans, track performance, and navigate the challenges of running a business for the first time.
  • Entrepreneur selection: source, vet, and back the high-potential leaders we partner with.
  • Build the playbook: help codify how we work into documented, repeatable systems for searcher coaching, deal evaluation, and portfolio governance.

Requirements

  • A coach at heart: You build trust by asking good questions, not by telling people what to do. You’ve mentored or advised executives before, ideally first-time CEOs or founders. You understand that coaching through a high-stakes journey is as much about emotional steadiness as it is about strategy.
  • M&A and investment acumen: You can evaluate a business through an investor’s lens: quality of earnings, competitive moats, key-person risk, valuation. You know how to segment deal flow, focus on what’s most likely to close, and move fast enough to reduce broken deal risk.
  • Operating experience: You’ve run or closely supported the operations of a business: P&L, team, customers, strategy. That experience gives you credibility when you’re advising a searcher CEO.
  • A natural systematiser: You see founder-dependent processes and instinctively turn them into scalable playbooks.

Benefits

  • A pivotal role in a pioneering company focused on the sustainability of SMEs in the ANZ.
  • A chance to work with a diverse, passionate team dedicated to making a real difference.
  • Opportunities to grow and wear multiple hats in a supportive, dynamic environment.

Job title

Entrepreneur Partner

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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