Venture Capital Manager

**EU Funding Programs - Venture Capital**
**Manager**
Evolution is a young and rapidly growing enterprise with +15 years of experience helping deep-tech ventures gain access to public/private funding for R&D projects and the commercialization of new technologies.
We support our clients in their path to market introduction of innovative products, processes, and services.

Today we are a team of 64 outstanding professionals working with startups and scaleups across EU 18 countries and are quickly expanding further our geographical presence and service portfolio. Our client base
(with +500 clients) stretches across various industries, including transportation, energy, cleantech, MedTech, robotics, aviation, nanomaterials, agriculture, health, environment, and other industrial processes, carrying on more than 350 annual projects.

We also promote entrepreneurship and hard science-based innovation by supporting the process of knowledge transfer between companies and institutions, helping ventures access tax incentives, and connecting technologies and people in the ecosystem where it is needed most.

As we are constantly growing and our goal is to keep doing it, our GR
- EU Programmes - Business Development needs a new _evolutioner _for the team to help to take care of the relationship with our Venture Capital (VC) network.

**What will be your primary responsibilities?**
- Develop and follow up on an acquisition, qualification, and maintenance strategy for VC, business angels, investors, incubators, etc, at a European level that adds value to both

Business Partners and Evolution.
- Monitor metrics to measure business generation performance through Business Partners.
- Sourcing customers that fit into Evolution's funding programs from prospecting to closing.
- Participate in the development of initiatives and campaigns in conjunction with the rest of the Business Development team to achieve and increase qualified leads and portfolio growth.
- Segment Business Partners in order to implement initiatives to build long-term relationships and thereby maximize collaboration.

**What do you need to join our team?**

**Previous experience**
- Minimum 3 years of experience working with deep-tech companies, investors, VCs, Business Angels, incubators, and accelerators.
- Previous experience in sales/business development in startups, accelerators, incubators, M&D, and VC.

**Skills**
- Communication
- Needs detection and active listening
- Customer orientation
- Problem-solving
- Tolerance under stress
- Achievement orientation
- Negotiation skills

**Education**
- University degree relevant for the position like administration business, economics, or international markets/commerce.
- C1 level of English.
- B1 level of Spanish.
- Any other additional language will be welcome.

**Valuable further knowledge**
- Sales strategy
- Negotiation skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Previous experience working with any CRM and other relevant tools, relevant sales and analytics techniques, and software

**Travel**
- Availability to travel in the EU.

**Work permit**
- Having Spanish nationality, a work permit, or a residence permit is a must.
- In case you don’t have the first option, there’s the possibility to collaborate as a freelance.

**What do you get out of being an evolutioner?**
- Expand your potential,
- A team that is always open to new ideas and a creative way to work
- Your work will be mostly or fully remote,
- Super flexible working hours, you can work out during the working time
- Well-communicated offices in Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid full of good vibes.
- Long-term collaboration (permanent contract or freelance)
- Tailor-made retribution package with fixed salary + variable.
- And many others that you’ll find out once you join our team.

**Salary**: 20,000.00€ - 40,000.00€ per year

Preguntas para la solicitud:

- What is your experience related to business development and VC, Business angels, incubators, accelerators, etc.?
- What is your salary range?
- Do you have a Spanish work permit/residence? If not, are you open to collaborate as a freelance?

Work Location: On the road