Managing Director, Impact Ventures & Business Instruments

Impact Fund Denmark; København; Sur place; DKK 1 345 000 - 1 794 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Impact Fund Denmark, based in Copenhagen, seeks a Managing Director to lead a new investment platform, build the team and drive venture activities. You will directly invest, shape processes, and guide opportunities through governance with senior collaboration.

You will report to the Chief Investment Officer and form a credible pipeline, articulating commercial and impact reasoning to advance investments while engaging with Danish businesses and partners.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience making or leading direct investments and guiding them through investment decisions.
• Strong commercial judgement to distinguish investable opportunities from rough cases.
• Ability to build relationships with Danish businesses, founders, and investors.
• Experience leading investment professionals and collaborating with senior peers.
• Practical approach to building a new investment team, pipeline, and instruments.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Responsabilités

• Set direction for the new team and align with existing venture activities.
• Build a credible pipeline and move opportunities through investment decision processes with rigour.
• Lead a team of investment professionals with clear priorities.
• Develop relationships with Danish businesses, investors and business associations to identify opportunities.
• Assess and advance direct investments balancing commercial potential, risk and impact.
• Shape processes to fit opportunities and governance requirements.
• Collaborate with Sustainability & Impact, Legal, Risk and Operations to implement new instruments.

Connaissances

Direct investments leadership

Commercial judgement

Relationship building

Team leadership

English proficiency

Description du poste

Impact Fund Denmark is developing new ways to invest in businesses with links to Denmark and activities in developing and emerging markets. We are looking for a Managing Director who can turn these mandates into a functioning investment platform, build the team behind it and lead the continued development of our venture activities.

The role combines direct investment responsibility with business development and team leadership. You will need to make sound decisions in an area where the operating model is still being built.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Reporting to the Chief Investment Officer, you will set the direction for the new team and work closely with colleagues across our existing venture and investment activities. You will build a credible pipeline and ensure that opportunities move through IFDK’s investment decision process with appropriate rigour.

• Build and lead a team of investment professionals, with clear priorities and standards for investment work.
• Develop relationships with Danish businesses, founders, investors, funds and business associations to identify relevant opportunities.
• Assess and advance direct investments, balancing commercial potential, financial risk and intended impact.
• Shape investment processes that fit the size and risk of each opportunity while meeting IFDK’s requirements for documentation and governance.
• Work with Sustainability & Impact, Legal, Risk and Operations to bring the new instruments into day-to-day use.
• Help promising businesses become ready for investment, including by identifying where technical assistance or specialist support can make a difference.
• Represent IFDK externally and explain our investment approach to businesses and partners.

YOUR FIRST YEAR

• A capable team and a practical way of working with IFDK’s existing investment organisation are in place.
• Relevant partners understand when and how to engage with the new instruments.
• The team has built and assessed a credible pipeline, with investment decisions supported by clear commercial and impact reasoning.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

This is what we need to see:

• Demonstrable experience making or leading direct investments, including assessing opportunities and taking them through an investment decision process.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to distinguish a promising business from an investable case.
• The ability to build relationships with Danish businesses and navigate the Danish business and investment ecosystem.
• Experience and credibility to lead investment professionals, work with senior peers and represent IFDK externally.
• A practical approach to building a team, a pipeline and a new area of activity.
• Strong written and spoken English.

These are advantages, not requirements: experience with venture or early-stage investing, venture building, technical assistance, development finance or investments in developing and emerging markets. Danish language skills would also be an advantage.

We do not expect one person to have worked in every part of this landscape. We do expect evidence of investment judgement, leadership and the ability to build something that works.

WHERE THE ROLE SITS

You will be based in Copenhagen and report to the Chief Investment Officer. The role works across the new instruments and existing venture activities, in close collaboration with other investment teams and specialist functions.

WHY JOIN US

You will have the opportunity to shape a new investment platform within an established organisation. The work calls for commercial discipline and offers the chance to support businesses whose growth can create measurable impact.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

Please apply through IFDK’s recruitment platform with your CV and a short application. Tell us about an investment you helped bring to a decision, what you personally contributed, and why this mandate interests you.

About Impact Fund Denmark

Impact Fund Denmark (IFU – the Investment Fund for Developing Countries) is a Danish impact investor contributing to green, just and inclusive societies as well as supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. Impact Fund Denmark provides risk capital to companies operating in developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and parts of Europe. Investments are made on commercial terms in the form of equity, loans and guarantees. Impact Fund Denmark has co-invested in over 1,300 companies in more than 100 developing countries and emerging markets. Contracted investments total EUR 31 billion, of which Impact Fund Denmark has contributed EUR 3.4 billion. Capital under management will be growing from EUR 2.1 billion to EUR 5.0 billion over the next few years. Read more at Impact Fund Denmark.