Entrepreneur Partner
SMEVentures
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
M&Ainvestment evaluationbusiness evaluationtransaction executionP&L managementdeal flow segmentationvaluation analysisperformance trackingportfolio governancestrategic planning
Soft Skills
coachingmentoringtrust buildingemotional steadinessstrategic guidancedecision making under pressureadvisory skillssystematisationcommunicationrelationship management