Growth Lead

Prosus Group

Growth Lead at Prosus identifying and unlocking value creation opportunities across European consumer portfolio. Driving strategic initiatives from Amsterdam or London.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeAmsterdam • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape the next wave of growth across Prosus's European consumer portfolio — from eMAG in Romania to Takealot in South Africa and Izyico in Turkey.
Identify and unlock value creation opportunities, drive strategic initiatives, and help our portfolio companies build sustainable competitive advantage.
Partner with the Head of European Ecosystem to shape board materials, investment memos, and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
Work directly with portfolio CFOs and COOs to track budgets, uncover growth opportunities, and troubleshoot operational bottlenecks.
Drive a strategic initiative end to end, coordinating cross-functional teams and pushing through roadblocks to get to a decision quickly.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You're the person who walks into a business review and immediately spots the one number that doesn't add up — and the three levers that could change it.
You think like an operator and a strategist in equal measure.
Strategic thinking: ability to connect macroeconomic trends, competitive dynamics, and company-level data into a coherent growth narrative.
Commercial judgement: instinct for identifying what drives value in a business, backed by financial fluency and analytical rigour.
M&A and business development experience: track record of sourcing, evaluating, and executing acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic investments.
Operational execution skills: experience running performance reviews, OKR cycles, and budget delivery across multi-country portfolios.
Stakeholder management: comfort engaging with C-level portfolio leadership, internal teams, and external advisors with credibility and clarity.
Communication skills: ability to synthesise complex information into crisp, persuasive recommendations for senior audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

More About Prosus & Our Culture
We build businesses that empower communities on a global scale.
Building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and can thrive is critical for us.

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Hard Skills & Tools

M&A experiencebusiness developmentfinancial fluencyanalytical rigoroperational executionperformance reviewsOKR cyclesbudget deliveryvalue creationstrategic initiatives

Soft Skills

strategic thinkingcommercial judgementstakeholder managementcommunication skillsproblem-solvingcross-functional coordinationcredibilityclaritypersuasive recommendationsgrowth narrative