VC Manager @ Polestar Capital in Hilversum, Netherlands

Make a difference as a Junior Investment Manager!

As a Junior Investment Manager, you help innovative sustainable companies obtain the necessary financing to realize their climate mission. You analyze the plans, map out risks and advise management on the steps needed to make a project financeable. At the same time, you and your colleagues structure appropriate financing, write investment proposals and document the transaction. You see the projects you work on in development and, over time, you can visit circular companies throughout the Netherlands (and beyond) that have achieved growth and impact thanks to your work.

You will be working for the Polestar Capital – Circular Debt Fund ( PCDF ). The PCDF aims to accelerate the transition to a circular economy by financing innovative companies that can really make a difference. We do this together with an enthusiastic team in which ideas and experiences are shared. In addition, you have a high degree of independence. Your ideas and input are valuable to the team and the projects we finance from day one.

Your role as Junior Investment Manager:

• You assess innovative, circular business plans and market developments;
• You are the first point of contact for credit applications for the entrepreneur, advisors and any other financiers and investors;
• You supervise due diligence processes and carry out analyses yourself;
• You contribute to the structuring of financing and prepare financing proposals;
• You assist in developing the transaction documentation;
• You supervise and analyze current financing;
• You represent Polestar Capital at relevant events and build a relevant network.

Research shows that female candidates only apply if they meet 100% of the requirements, while male candidates already do so at 60%. So do you recognize yourself in this challenge, but are you hesitant whether you meet all the requirements? Then we would like to receive your CV.

Working for the PCDF

The Polestar Capital – Circular Debt Fund (PCDF) is the largest European private debt fund financing innovative circular companies with the potential to sustainably transform value chains worldwide. The PCDF aims to accelerate the transition to a circular economy by financing innovative companies at the cusp of scaling up. By providing these companies with an early stage loan, they can further roll out their game-changing invention to a commercial production facility.

This step is crucial to prove the technology and business model to the market, but is often too innovative for bank financing and too capital-intensive for venture capital. By providing financing anyway, we enable circular projects and accelerate their realization, so that these projects can then scale up worldwide with proven technology. PCDF is active in various sectors, including plastics, (petro)chemical industry, bio-based materials, circular construction, textiles and metals.

How we make an impact here together

Polestar Capital is one of the European leaders when it comes to financing energy-related and circular projects. Based on our shared climate mission, we do everything we can every day to make an impact. Because there is work to be done in the world!

To help keep global warming below 1.5 degrees, it is high time to look at financing differently. With more ingenuity and decisiveness. In our opinion, money should no longer be an obstacle in the transition to a sustainable economy. But rather an accelerator!

We like to set the right example. By making the risks or complexity of sustainable projects manageable and investing with just a little more courage. In this way we make a serious contribution to CO2 savings, waste reduction, energy solutions, the development of abiotic raw materials and at the same time we create (local) jobs.

In addition to the business investments that we manage for, among others, the Limburg Energy Fund (LEF) and the Polestar Capital – Circular Debt Fund (PCDF), we take care of the acceptance and management of loans to homeowners, homeowners’ associations and schools through the Warmtefonds for the financing of energy-saving measures.

In a short time, we have grown into a scale-up with more than 180 driven ‘game changers’. And we are growing nicely. A great time to step in and grow with us! Here you will find challenge, variety and the freedom to fill in your work in your own way. So join Polestar Capital quickly. Because there is work to be done in the world!

This is what we have to offer:

• Salary between 5,000 euros and 6,500 euros per month;
• Premium-free pension + a budget based on 4% of your salary to supplement your pension or use for other purposes;
• A contract for 32 to 40 hours per week;
• Home work allowance and/or travel allowance;
• 29 vacation days based on 40 hours to enjoy a well-deserved vacation;
• Hybrid working;
• Training and courses for your professional development;
• Varied job; room for personal input and development to senior investment manager;
• A close-knit team with a joint lunch, drinks and regular company outings.

This is what we ask of you as a Junior Investment Manager:

• You want to contribute to a more sustainable world;
• You have completed a master’s degree (including Finance, Corporate Law, Business Economics or a technical study);
• You have at least 5 years of relevant work experience in bank financing, Private Debt, Corporate Finance, PE, VC, Debt (Capital) Advisory or, for example, Consultancy, experience with project financing and/or mezzanine financing is a plus;
• You are able to view a project from different angles and see the interconnections;
• Experience in guiding projects through a financing process and/or having been responsible for parts of this process;
• Excellent communication skills in Dutch and English (verbal and written).

Join Polestar Capital!

Do you have the drive and skills to make a difference as a Junior Investment Manager? Then click decisively on the green button below and apply immediately. Then we will quickly plan an introduction! Do you want to know more or have questions? Then please call our Recruiter Jan Jellema (06 2137 0084).

Don’t hesitate too long, because there is work to be done in the world!