Vice President Medical

VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

The Firm

Founded in 2007, NexPhase Capital (‘NexPhase’ or ‘NPC’) is a leading private equity firm based in New York City, has raised and managed $2.6B of capital since inception, and focuses on partnering with founder-owned companies in the consumer, healthcare and software sectors.

NexPhase leverages thematically led and operationally focused sub-sector insights to evaluate each investment, deploying a team of 22 investment professionals, including seven partners supplemented by 19 senior-level operating executives with a range of C-suite operating and functional expertise. NPC’s industry vertical teams bring true domain experience, targeting subsectors based on relevant investment trends. The firm has a systematic approach to creating market leaders with over 80% of investments entrepreneur-owned and operated at close. To date, NexPhase has completed over 110 investments.

Notably, this will only be the third BD hire in the firm’s 19-year history. For more information, please visit

The Position

NexPhase is seeking a Vice President, Business Development to join the team based in NYC. In this newly created role, the successful candidate will report directly to the Partner and Head of Business Development, a 15-year employee of the firm, and be the key supporting employee within the functionality. This role is partner-track and likely to one day lead the business development functionality at NexPhase Capital.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Identifying key regional banks and brokers (to include a top 100 list of critical intermediaries) and creating a plan for their coverage

• Collaborating with the head of business development to analyze top cities by banker locations, setting a prioritized travel schedule per banker locations, executing these trips and managing post-trip follow-up

• Managing all add-on search efforts handled by the fund and NPC’s retained buyside advisors

• Planning and executing attendance at regional ACG and Heavy Hitter (banker / private equity) conferences

Secondary responsibilities include:

• Leading ownership of Deal Cloud (CRM) including funnel, stage and document management, periodic reporting, and interaction with deal teams to ensure accuracy

• Managing offshore consultant workflow, primarily encompassing supervision of various research projects

• Manage marketing collateral and external sourcing communications, primarily e-mail blasts

• Managing relationship with Sutton Place Strategies, submitting quarterly data and running ‘deals missed’ analytics and subsequent follow-up with bankers identified

• Managing daily flow of NDAs

• Collaborating with the head of business development to track ongoing business development statistics, including conversion rates between deal stages, market coverage by sector, new accounts added, etc.

POSITION SPECIFICATION

In addition to the above responsibilities, the successful candidate will provide support across the following activities:

• Managing and deepening relationships, deal flow and marketplace intelligence with bankers

• Collaborating with investment teams to identify attractive targets and generate comprehensive market maps leveraging banker input, research reports, etc.

• Identifying and sourcing PEG-owned acquisition targets, maintaining interest and dialogue with other sponsors

• Supporting and attending trade shows and industry conferences with NexPhase operators and investment professionals

• Supporting proprietary platform searches with retained buyside advisors

• Direct outreach to proprietary targets identified via market mapping, banker discussions and expo research

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will have at least 6+ years of total professional experience, including at least two years in a private equity deal sourcing or a similar role, including but not limited to investment banking sponsor coverage, leverage finance coverage, or debt origination. Qualified individuals from outside these sectors will also be considered.

• Demonstrated pattern of excellence, both personally and professionally, based on academic achievement, leadership, career progression, professional reputation, etc.

• Ability to maintain NPC’s standards for the highest personal and professional integrity. Seeking candidates with strong self-awareness, focus, maturity, and professional demeanor as well as exceptional interpersonal skills and the charisma, presence, maturity, and communication abilities to establish credibility and inspire confidence both internally and externally.

• Proven ability to work well independently but also collaborate with other colleagues and external resources to drive results and positive energy. High sense of urgency and desire to drive positive results. Creative and passionate about finding unique and relevant investment opportunities.

• The ability to maintain a proactive cadence of high-quality marketing interactions (in-person, Zoom, phone, and email).

• Proven attention to detail. Keen understanding of how to identify, capture, analyze, organize, and convey relevant industry information to others. Appreciation and support for a disciplined and thorough approach to capturing, tracking and analyzing data.

• Effective listener and a clear, confident communicator. Able to mobilize and influence well internally and externally. A strong executive presence with the ability to converse and collaborate with senior professionals across the industry.

• Demonstrated track record for being pragmatic and commercial, thinking like an owner with the ability to prioritize.

• The ability to travel extensively.

Location

The candidate will be based in firm’s New York office.