About The Heritage Group

The Heritage Group is a fourth-generation, family-owned business focused on construction and materials, environmental services and specialty chemicals. Over the last 90+ years, the Heritage portfolio has grown to include more than 50 companies that employ more than 6,000 people. What unites this diverse group of businesses and individuals is our commitment to create a safer, more enriching, and sustainable world by harnessing the power of family.

HG Ventures is the corporate venture investing arm within THG, expanding upon and leveraging its 90-year track record of building diverse and successful companies in sustainability, environmental services, energy, transportation infrastructure, and specialty chemicals. We seek to invest in high-potential companies from seed to growth-equity stage that are core and adjacent to these sectors. Our diligence process and ability to enable our portfolio companies' growth is maximized by the deep technical and market expertise of THG coupled with the entrepreneurial experience of the HG Ventures team. Our community, founders, and THG are at the heart of everything we do.

The Candidate

HG Ventures is an active, high-touch corporate venture group that seeks strategic collaboration between early-stage companies and The Heritage Group, helping to unlock value in all organizations. We are looking to add a motivated, innovative, and dedicated Platform Manager to our team who will lead our portfolio community, build relationships and expertise within The Heritage Group operating companies, and be a liaison to the broader start-up community. While this is not an investing role, you will be working alongside the investment team and have exposure to the diligence process. This role will extend across multiple facets, including relationship management and connective support for The Heritage Group, HG Ventures, and our portfolio companies, portfolio and pipeline communication, pilot management, content creation, business intelligence, and new initiatives. This is a high visibility role internally and externally, with the opportunity to learn the management of a VC portfolio.

At HG Ventures, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape the future of sustainable investing and corporate venture capital. You'll work within a small team that takes pride in achieving outsized results through corporate-startup partnerships.

*This position is primarily onsite, based in Indianapolis, IN with the ability to WFH one day per week.*

Essential Functions

• Support and accelerate the growth of HG Ventures portfolio companies
• Onboard and support new portfolio companies and those in diligence, identifying people and resources that can add real value
• Complete diligence tasks for potential new investments as needed, including but not limited to: financial analysis and modeling, market research, competitive analysis and business model assessment.
• Build and maintain productive working relationships between portfolio companies and The Heritage Group operating companies
• Work with The Heritage Group operating companies to identify and source opportunities for collaborations and pilots with early-stage startups (portfolio companies, pipeline opportunities)
• Gain business intelligence - managing and continuously developing our institutional knowledge and external connections to broaden and strengthen the HG Ventures strategy
• Leverage THG knowledge to source new opportunities, highlight interesting trends and sectors, and support the diligence process and investment decisions
• New Initiatives, which could include: Strategy and execution of events, content, ecosystem development, resource creation and management, and network activation to build the HG Ventures profile
• Measure and report progress of all of the above

Education Qualifications

• Required Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Advertising or related field, or equivalent relevant experience

Experience Qualifications

• Required 3+ years lived experience in communications, relationship management, sales/business development or entrepreneurial operator within our target sectors

Skills and Abilities

• High empathy, attention to detail, and self-motivation
• Ability to develop, maintain, and cross-pollinate strong relationships with various stakeholders
• Experience in an entrepreneurial environment; experience working with startups preferred
• Excellent communication and organizational skills

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.