Intern Venture and Portfolio Management

  • Intern
  • City: Berlin

Company Description

We are an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

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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!

Ventures & Incubation at AVIV

The Ventures & Incubation team looks after AVIV Group growth accelerators, building new revenue lines, business models 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.

Job Description

Become a Venture- and Portfolio Management Intern

  • Actively support managing AVIV portfolio companies
  • Support in developing and assessing Value Creation Plans jointly with the management teams
  • Track progress and work closely with management and operating teams to enable acceleration
  • Support portfolio companies in day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives
  • Build out the AVIV strategic investment portfolio
  • Support the investment process through inhouse consulting and M&A projects (e.g. commercial due diligences)
  • Develop and assess business plans for both portfolio and target companies
  • Conduct competitor analyses, identify market trends and turn them into actionable solutions
  • Participate in interviews and workshops with the local management
  • Carry out web analytics and market research, e.g. focus groups or online surveys
  • Support preparing presentations for the Executive Board and other management meetings

Qualifications

You are a student in Business Administration, Business Informatics, Economics or a comparable field from a leading university

  • Practical experience in strategy consulting, venture capital, investment banking or in an entrepreneurial role in a start-up
  • Strong analytical skills, an entrepreneurial and conceptual mindset as well as a drive for numbers
  • Willingness to perform, high professionalism and a strong team player
  • A strong interest in digital business models, particularly around property transactions and the broader PropTech space
  • A responsible, flexible and committed working style with a degree of assertiveness
  • Fluency in English (German or French are a plus)
  • Very good MS-Office skills

Additional Information

Benefit from a dedicated expert team in a dynamic and fast-moving digital environment

  • Join us as a full team member during your internship in Berlin
  • Work alongside our highly professional investment team in M&A and business development projects
  • Personal and professional support during your internship with a transparent feedback process
  • A team culture marked by a spirit of partnership in a dynamic environment with regular team events among other things
  • The internship will be compensated competitively
  • Start date: July 2022 (for at least 3, and up to 6 months)
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