New Business Transformation opportunities within Cairngorm Capital…

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Welcome from the Chief Portfolio Officer of Cairngorm Capital

Dear Applicant

Thank you for considering these important roles for our firm.

You will be joining Cairngorm Capital at a really exciting time. We have just closed our third fund, having deployed the first two over 23 deals in just under four years. We are actively involved in our portfolio companies, providing detailed operational support as well as capital and strategic input.

Our Operating Partner network is a core part of our investment approach – making experience, thought leadership and best practice readily available to our portfolio companies. These three roles are designed to provide additional efficiency and transformation firepower, further accelerating the key change initiatives within the portfolio.

We hope you will see the opportunities to have meaningful input to the growth of a wide variety of businesses. The team operate in a very flat structure and everyone is encouraged (and indeed expected) to add their own ideas and experience wherever possible. You will work on building industry leading businesses, working with industry leading operators.

We can’t wait to welcome more first-class people to our growing team and look forward to your application.

Warren Gee, Chief Portfolio Officer, Cairngorm Capital

Cairngorm Capital is a specialist private investment firm providing equity capital and management expertise to leading UK companies. They invest in private mid-market growth companies within manufacturing, distribution and services industries. They focus on companies that can weather economic volatility, have shown consistent historical growth and have significant future growth prospects.

Cairngorm Capital’s current portfolio companies have combined revenues of over £1BN and more than 6,500 employees. They know what it takes to grow a business – together with their network of talented Operating Partners, they have successfully built many. Their unique mix of sectoral expertise and investment skill enables them to be actively involved in the strategy and operational focus of a company, supporting management teams in their plans to drive revenue growth, enhance margins, improve cash-flow or consolidate industry leadership positions.

Cairngorm Capital has experienced substantial portfolio growth and firm expansion over the last few years. Working with a large team of investment professionals, six Operating Partners and a wide network of industry experts, they are now looking to add to this bolster this team.

What do they do:

  • Add value through their unique mix of operational know-how and investment skills
  • Guide their partner companies through the challenges of growth
  • Bringing global experience and expertise to the lower-middle market
  • Deliver transformational change in the scale and scope of a businesses
  • Support outstanding management teams in build better stronger businesses

http://www.cairngormcapital.com/

  1. Believe in recurring relationships – at Cairngorm Capital professionals recognise the value in long term, reoccurring relationships with all stakeholders with whom they work. They pride themselves in doing what they say they will do – they very much consider everyone they work with as a future referee
  2. Focus their investment strategy on their areas of expertise – Cairngorm Capital’s incredibly accomplished and dynamic investment and operation teams bring specific managerial insights and deep expertise in core industry sectors
  3. Drive transformation in their companies – Cairngorm Capital has developed a concentrated portfolio of 7-8 companies across their funds. They have supported every investee company with senior investment teams and Board participation. This level of attention and expertise has enabled larger investments alongside co-investment partners
  4. Partner with management teams – Collaboration is a crucial element of the “Cairngorm way”, they collaborate with management teams, before completing investment to ensure they build a detailed business plan which ensures success for everyone
  5. Engage world-class industry executives – Cairngorm Capital provide smaller companies with access to industry leading management talent, across all key activities, including sales and marketing, operations, finance, supply change , IT and HR
  6. Align interests – Cairngorm Capital’s employees are significant investors within each fund, creating a true alignment of interest. They do not charge entry, management or exit fees, but generate return entirely through increasing value in their portfolio companies

Due to continued growth, Cairngorm Capital are looking to hire a Business Analyst, RPA Manager & Project Administrator to support the transformative growth of private equity backed businesses in their portfolio. Based in Edinburgh but with regular UK travel, you will be involved in a wide variety of business performance and transformation projects across the portfolio.

The roles all report into Warren Gee who has extensive technology, financial, operational and leadership experience, typically in environments requiring transformation, rapid growth and/or international expansion.  We recently interviewed Warren to find out more about his career path to date and experiences working with these types of businesses – this enjoyable read can be found by clicking here.

You will also work with the wider transformation team – the likes of John Declerck who was previously Group Strategy Director at Kingfisher and Samantha Wilson, former Director of Digital Development at Screwfix.  By surrounding yourself with the best people you will learn new ways of working, offering you excellent professional development.

All three roles represent genuinely unique opportunities for the Scottish market. The selected professionals will gain direct exposure to a variety of different businesses within the portfolio and work very closely with Cairngorm’s highly influential and successful Operating Partners.

Position Profile – Business Analyst
Position Profile – RPA Manager
Position Profile – Project Administrator

The recruitment for these positions is being managed by advising consultants, Hamilton Forth.   In the first instance interested candidates should contact, Ali Shaw or Josh Moreland. Contacts details below:

To apply for the Business Analyst or Project Administrator role contact Ali Shaw [email protected]

To apply for the RPA Manager role contact Josh Moreland [email protected]

Recruitment Process…

First stage interviews will be conducted by selected consultant from Hamilton Forth.   Shortlisted candidates will thereafter be invited to meet with Warren Gee and Lauren Cahill at Cairngorm Capital’s Edinburgh office. Final stage interviews will likely take place in London with a selected senior stakeholder and team. All third-party applications, enquiries and direct approaches to Cairngorm Capital will be referred to Hamilton Forth.

All third-party applications, enquiries and direct approaches to Cairngorm Capital will be referred to Livingston James Group.

The recruitment of this position is managed by Hamilton Forth