Manager, Strategy & Corporate Development

Manta EU; Oslo; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Manta EU is seeking a strategic professional to drive the next growth phase. You will lead end-to-end analyses, build rigorous financial models, and prepare materials for boards and investors.

You will work directly with senior leadership on market expansion, venture initiatives and portfolio initiatives within Vergence. You should bring at least three years in top-tier consulting or strategic roles, great ownership, and excellent communication to navigate a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years in top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy, VC, PE or M&A.
• Ability to build and defend a financial model under scrutiny.
• Proven experience producing investor and board materials.
• Self-directed with the ability to own complex work in a shifting, ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Structure and lead end-to-end strategic analyses with clear recommendations.
• Build financial models covering unit economics, P&L, value, payback and scenarios.
• Produce investor and board materials: memos, slides and papers.
• Drive initiatives through to implementation, not just recommendations.
• Support work across the Vergence portfolio, including due diligence and integration on acquisitions/partnerships.

Skills

Financial modeling

Strategic analysis

Investor memos

Board presentations

Due diligence

Education

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Our ambition is to build a $10bn company in the near term. Our mission is to automate profitable growth.

We’re building AI that connects a company’s systems, understands what drives performance, and turns decisions into action across ecommerce, real estate and large enterprises in Europe, the GCC and the US.

This has been a long time in the making. Years of customer relationships, integrations and industry experience have given us a strong foundation. The technology is now catching up with what we’ve wanted to build.

And building a company at this scale takes exceptional people across finance, strategy and execution. This role sits at the centre of that growth. Reporting directly to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will help define and drive the strategic initiatives that determine where Manta goes next: new ventures, capital strategy, market entry, investor relations and more. Around 20% of your time will extend to other companies in the Vergence portfolio, the co-company builder Manta is part of. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility position in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

What you'll do

• Structure and lead end-to-end strategic analyses: market sizing, competitive positioning, vertical entry cases, and land them on clear, defensible recommendations
• Build rigorous financial models covering unit economics, vertical P&Ls, contract value, payback periods and scenario analysis
• Produce high-quality investor and board materials: presentations, investment memos and board papers for senior internal and external audiences
• Drive initiatives through to implementation, not just to a filed recommendation
• Support work across the Vergence portfolio, including due diligence and post-close integration on acquisitions and partnerships

Who you are

You bring at least three years of experience from top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy, VC, PE or M&A. You can build and defend a financial model under scrutiny, and you have a track record of producing materials that hold up in front of boards and investors. You have led strategic analyses from framing through to recommendation, and you follow through until the outcome is real.

You are highly self-directed, comfortable owning complex work with limited oversight in an environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is the norm.

Nice to have:

Experience running commercial due diligence on acquisitions or partnerships, and supporting integration after close. Proficiency in Norwegian alongside fluent English.

You will be close to every major decision at one of Europe’s most technically ambitious AI companies, working alongside founders, operators and leadership teams. If you want to see how a company is built and help build it, this is the role.