Founders Associate (£45k-£55k)

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an agile and dynamic company that focuses on fast delivery and exceptional service in the real estate sector. This full-time role offers the opportunity to work closely with the CEO, tackle diverse challenges daily, and develop skills crucial for aspiring executives. Candidates should possess experience in high-accountability environments and be ready to contribute to significant projects that drive growth.

Benefits

Participation in incentive share scheme

Travel expenses covered

Opportunity to work closely with senior leaders

Flexible hours

No-bullshit work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter with good organizational skills.
• Affinity for the environment and desire to learn.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects, tenders and client work.
• Communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders.
• Prepare research and materials for various presentations.
• Assist with administrative operations and marketing efforts.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Research

Admin and operations

Marketing and PR

Job description

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• We help housebuilding and real estate clients secure planning consents where there are environmental constraints on a site.
• We’re the fastest. Our USP is speed and we marry that with unparalleled customer service.
• To turbo-charge our growth, in 2024 we partnered with Celnor, a built environment consolidator backed by London-based private equity firm, Inflexion.
• Although 20 years old, we are hungry, lean, agile business.

What we don’t do

• We don’t have a grandiose, ‘Fortune 500’ vision.
• There’s no eyeroll-inducing mission statement about “people and planet”—because all companies should be about people and planet.
• We aren’t raising capital. We fund growth by making a profit.
• We develop AI and ML models in house, but we’re not a tech business.

What we do

• We are a people business. We sell intellectual capital.
• We take complete ownership of hard, chunky problems and slice them up into bite-size pieces, delivered in the form of rapid, cost effective, practical advice.
• We write reports, but our product is results.

FULL DISCLOSURE

• This role is highly varied. One day you might accompany the CEO to a meeting with a new client, here or abroad. Another you might be cranking out an admin-heavy task that requires attention to detail. These are equally important and will require 100% effort, regardless the disparity in satisfaction or challenge. You will be relied upon, and no one will be checking your work. Very few days will be the same and you will be assigned tasks that you have no experience of, with the expectation that you learn empirically. The variety and challenge inherent in the role must genuinely appeal to you.

Who should/not apply

• We welcome applications from people with any academic or vocational background. However, this is not a graduate role. You must have hands on experience of operating in a complex, fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
• You must already have the right to live and work in the UK. If you are working on a visa, you must confirm that you have at least one year remaining before it expires for your application to be considered.

What you'll be doing:

• Project management – tenders, events, presentations, client work.
• Stakeholder management – comms with clients and external organisations.
• Research and prep – researching and crafting decks and supporting materials for a wide variety of end users.
• Admin and operations – keeping things moving smoothly behind the scenes.
• Marketing and PR – helping create content for socials and press.
• CEO’s right hand – from client events to boring but necessary logistics.

You

• Crave vertical learning curves.
• Are a self-starter and thrives without rigid structures.
• Find mediocrity terrifying.
• Can shift gears easily - no two days are the same.
• Are ruthlessly well-organised.
• Can work flexibly in respect to hours, travel, overnight stays, and in-person days at the office as required.
• Wants to run their own business someday and sees this as a roadmap (al maestro, cuchillada!), or seeks a crash course to fast-track it to the top, here or somewhere else: it’s all good.
• Whether you have come from investment banking or the arts, you will have a strong affinity for the environment.

What we offer

• Full-time, permanent role.
• Participation in incentive share scheme.
• Travel expenses and trivial benefits met.
• The chance to work 1-2-1 with the CEO and other senior leaders in the fastest growing company in the sector.
• A no-bullshit work environment, where building genuine friendships and having fun, while creating enormous, positive impacts matters more than prevailing dogma and politics.
• Learn how to build, scale and sell a business.
• This is the perfect role for an aspiring Founder/CEO.

The Process

• Initial filter of applications.
• 30 Minute screening interview with Senior Team Member.
• In person chat with Robert Oates (CEO).

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