Portfolio Leadership Development Program
The management of portfolio companies within private equity requires specialist skills. Buy-and-build investors use financial and strategic resources to enable numerous initiatives and focus on results. This ensures a rapid pace and high level of transformations and expansion.
HAL Investments is joining forces with its portfolio companies to train future management itself with the Portfolio Leadership Development Program. Participation is open to top-ranking, university-educated professionals with at least three years’ work experience in consulting or a management traineeship. Because the focus is on a fast track to a management position, participants spend two years rotating between portfolio companies and work closely with CEOs. The program has a good track record of promotion to management positions.
Requirements*
- At least three years’ work experience, preferably in consulting or a management traineeship
- Wide range of sectors and positions possible
- Analytical
- Strategic
- Pragmatic
- Innate leadership skills
Research shows that while male candidates feel confident enough to apply when they meet about 60% of the requirements, female candidates only apply when they tick every box. So if this role has your name on it, but you’re not sure about the criteria, we still want to hear from you.
Portfolio Leadership Development Program
The HAL Investments portfolio is made up of medium-sized to large companies with strong potential for growth that can be unleashed by boosting strategic capacity. At management level, that means a lot of people management, hands-on product development, direct customer contact, and a range of operational issues while also engaging with management teams at a high level of abstraction.
“Good management is a rare commodity and a bottleneck for growth,” says Barry Lassche from HAL Investments. The management of portfolio companies requires specialist skills—for example, experience at a corporate is not the right training for a medium-sized company, and consulting is too hands-off. Since there was a lack of spot-on training, HAL Investments and its portfolio companies have taken matters into their own hands by setting up their own Portfolio Leadership Development Program. Following the great success of the first two cohorts, Top of Minds is now commencing recruitment of the third cohort.
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