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We were founded by Axel Springer in 2018 as a 100 percent owned company and combine the digital activities and participations in real estate, car and generalist classifieds in Germany 🇩🇪 (Immowelt), France 🇫🇷 (Meilleurs Agents, Groupe SeLoger, Logic-Immo, Car & Boat Media), Belgium 🇧🇪 (Immoweb), Spain 🇪🇸 (Housell) and Israel 🇮🇱 (Yad2), making us one of the world’s biggest digital classified players. 

We also hold Axel Springer’s minority participation in companies such as Purplebricks, Homeday and Zumper. Our vision is to serve consumers in their important decisions in life and to simplify not only the search for a new property or car but to also provide additional services in adjacent markets.

This is an exciting time to join us in our ambition to become Europe’s leading PropTech business - helping us unlock everyone’s perfect place!

What we do in Ventures & Incubation

The Ventures & Incubation team looks after AVIV growth accelerators, building the new revenue lines and capabilities to best serve owners, buyers, renters and agents’ needs. It focuses on early-stage opportunities with high potential, with the objective to fast-track scaling and value creation. It plays a key role in making AVIV the leading European real estate platform.

We are looking for a driven business builder who wants to go after new opportunities, with ownership from strategy to value realization. This role will report into the Chief Ventures & Incubation Officer and focus on our new business models, as well as managing existing and future investments & partnerships.

• Identify relevant business opportunities aligned with AVIV corporate strategy, and formulate plans to realize them, including partners and external investments
• Translate insights and ideas into business plans through hypothesis development and validation
• Build bottom-up financial models to quickly assess opportunity potential
• Own the management of cross-country/division incubation programs leveraging multiple capabilities from within and outside the organization, act the GM of the new businesses
• Provide PMO capability to ensure effective tracking and analytical reporting across incubation initiatives
• Ensure alignment across key stakeholders on priorities to ensure new streams of growth in the market, with a long-term perspective
• Manage AVIV portfolio of minority investments
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of AVIV strategy and build out a deep understanding of the ecosystem
• Identify innovative solutions in the market and lead conversations to drive new business opportunities and product growth initiatives with key stakeholders in product, legal, engineering, and other stakeholders around the AVIV group
• Advise the CEO and the Chief Venture & Incubation Officer on incubation priorities and drive further business cases and updates in this area to our investors
• Build trusted relationships with all stakeholders and leaders
• Be an ambassador for our AVIV behaviours and drive cultural initiatives  

• Outstanding degree from a top university in a business-related or quantitative field
• 8+ years of proven experience in building businesses, through organic and inorganic plans, preferably in ecommerce and marketplace environments
• Consulting experience complemented by operational responsibilities a plus
• Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, solid financial modeling capability for business case development
• Keen interest to drive and go deep in execution
• Solid stakeholder management skills, and ability to engage strategically and commercially with external parties
• Demonstrated project management leadership experience, with regional or global scope
• A leader, motivator and strong collaborator who can demonstrate success in delivering and navigating complex projects in a matrixed organization
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, self-motivated, self-managed
• Outstanding ability to communicate and break down complex ideas into understandable and actionable messages
• Can grasp and add value to the Group leadership’s vision and execution plan
• Fluent in English and German

What we offer you

• This is a fascinating point at which to join a highly successful business in a fast- pacing market, leveraging a proven model, great brands, many outstanding people, considerable financial firepower, and a strongly supportive board to lead the company through its next phase of growth
• Working with a great international team and full ownership from day one
• Flexible working hours, remote work options and 30 vacation days per year
• We offer you an unlimited full-time position as soon as possible in Berlin with the possibility to travel to the other offices