Deployment Manager, WovenLight
Hybrid investment and technology firm
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Hybrid investment and technology firm
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
1-20 employees
Company mission
To create a better world through intelligent investing.
Role
Who you are
- WovenLight Deployment Managers are commercially focused project leaders who have expertise and passion for AI and ML driven value creation
- Experience of analytics focused engagements, in particular those involving ML/AI driven value creation
- Strong stakeholder management skills including experience educating non technical audiences on the value of data/analytics initiatives and winning hearts and minds across organizations
- Change management skills with a demonstrated ability to drive organizational adoption
- Business acumen with strong commercial understanding, perhaps gained from experience as Junior Engagement Manager within a consulting firm, Product Manager at a technology company, or similar business-focused role
- Solid understanding of analytics concepts sufficient to communicate effectively with technical teams and translate business requirements, but not requiring deep technical expertise (you can rely on Applied Engineering colleagues for technical depth)
- Experience working with technical teams including Data Scientists, Engineers, and ML specialists, with ability to guide technical direction from a business perspective
- Solution architecture awareness to understand how technical solutions fit into broader business systems and processes
- Focus on the WHAT not the HOW - you ensure business impact and commercial outcomes while technical colleagues handle implementation details
- Strong business understanding enabling you to identify and articulate value creation opportunities
- Financial literacy including familiarity with investing and corporate finance principles, allowing you to work effectively with investment colleagues and quantify the financial impact of initiatives
- Interpersonal and communication excellence supporting your ability to build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across organizations (portfolio companies, investors, partners)
What the job involves
- Join WovenLight teams to support key business/commercial workstreams as we deliver two types of projects
- I) Diagnostic projects that evaluate the value creation potential at target companies / portfolio companies
- Ii) Deployment projects that execute on the identified value creation opportunities using our deep AI/ML capabilities
- The role is fast-moving, varied and context dependent but on all projects, it is likely that our Deployment Managers are involved with:
- Scoping and leading successful projects – both pre-acquisition diagnostics and post acquisition execution projects
- Stakeholder management and communications – often across multiple levels within a portfolio company; and one or more sponsors/owners
- Driving change management activities at portfolio companies – overcoming typical ‘last mile’ challenges of user education/adoption
- Supporting portfolio companies with wider analytics and AI topics (e.g. organisation/operational model decisions)
- Examples of projects you could work on include:
- Helping a company/sponsor position for sale by creating a roadmap of future AI/data value creation opportunities (Sell side diagnostic)
- Leading rapid ‘outside in’ evaluation of value creation potential at a target company (Buyside diagnostic)
- Optimisation modelling to improve manufacturing throughput (Deployment)
- Predictive modelling to anticipate/avoid asset downtime (Deployment)
- Predicting and reducing customer churn (Deployment)
- Identifying next best action for sales agents (Deployment)
- Geospatial modelling to improve store footprint (Deployment)
Application process
- Interviews for this role will be conducted via a combination of phone, video-conference and in person
Salary benchmarks
Our take
WovenLight was founded to help shape a better world through injecting data and analytics into both how it operates as an investment firm, and how value creation works at portfolio companies. In order to achieve this, it's combining technology professionals and world class investing experience.
WovenLight's mission is based on the belief that modern data analysis techniques can refine value creation by revolutionising the entire investment lifecycle. The company harnesses data to understand what drives effective performance and then exploits these findings to create better returns for investors and faster growth for portfolio companies.
The company's approach is driven by addressing global challenges - from the rise of technology to climate change - which it approaches through a diversity of experience to uncover the alternative approaches needed to solve these difficult problems. WovenLight values data not just as a single piece of analysis, but as a feedback loop, so aims to embed the ability to learn and apply new knowledge faster over time.
WovenLight's team combines diverse skillsets, cultures, and teams from both the finance and technology industries, aiming to achieve a redefinition of private equity.
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Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Frank van den Bosch
(Managing Partner)They worked at firms including Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Deb Group and Skillsoft in Analyst, Directorship and Chairman roles. In June 2019, they left their position as a Partner at Charterhouse Capital Partners to co-found WovenLight in October 2019.
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