Consulting Manager

Title: Consulting Manager

Location: Fully remote globally

Company:

Sagana is a global impact investment advisory firm working to unleash the potential of people, capital, and business to improve human and planetary health. We are passionate about advising, investing in, and growing companies that are successfully solving some of the biggest challenges of our time - and to helping other investors to do the same. We leverage decades of experience in private equity, impact advisory, and entrepreneurship to scale big ideas that create an abundant, thriving world for all.

Our name means “Abundance” in Tagalog, and this is core to who we are. To learn more about what sets us apart, check out our video: Sagana - Unleashing Potential

Sagana Consulting:

Sagana Consulting advises investors, development organizations, foundations and other allocators of capital on maximizing the transformational effect of their resources. We draw on our expertise as investors combined with our deep understanding of local markets to co-create investment strategies and financial vehicles that empower our clients to deepen their positive impact. Our clients include organizations like the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation, BII, DFAT, responsAbility, the Gates Foundation, and Cartier Women’s Initiative. We run a portfolio of projects in key thematic areas such as innovative finance, gender lens investing, climate adaptation and resilience and decarbonization, to name a few.

Opportunity:

We are hiring a consulting professional with an unwavering enthusiasm for impact to join our impact investing consulting practice. You will support and execute across multiple projects simultaneously across a range of high-growth industries and client types. You will support the project teams to landscape impact investing opportunities, develop investment strategies, design and structure investment vehicles, support portfolio companies, and measure and supervise impact success.

Responsibilities:

• Execute on projects to develop impact investing strategies, processes, and portfolios for clients, as well as conduct research and analysis of markets, sectors, companies, and business models.
• Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery across multiple projects at once, by building and directing workplans, timelines and budgets

Skills and Experience:

• Have 2-5 years of relevant work experience, within a well-established consulting firm.
• An interest in impact investing, and across Sagana's thematic areas - in particular one or more of: blended finance;, diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI); gender-lens investing, climate tech;, energy transition; food & agriculture’, plastics & recycling; or financial inclusion
• High-quality interpersonal skills, with an ability to work well within an intercultural, diverse team and with global entrepreneurs and stakeholders
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to formulate and present analysis and recommendations in a clear and concise manner, particularly in Powerpoint reports/presentations and investment memos. Commitment to the highest quality of work with solid attention to detail and follow-through. You hold yourself and your teammates to high-quality standards
• Fluency in English. Knowledge of other languages is an added advantage.

Values:

Our shared values guide all that we do:

• Courage

  - Is what empowers us to think differently, ask difficult questions, speak our minds, act on what we believe in and find opportunities that others don’t always see

• Authenticity

  - Is what guides us to bring our whole selves to our endeavors and not hide behind a mask. It brings out our honesty, creativity and enthusiasm that allows us to use our full potential in delivering our work

• Respect

  - Is the foundation of all relationships – with ourselves, our clients and partners, our colleagues, our communities, and our planet

• Responsibility

  - Is what we take for the world in which we live. We hold ourselves accountable for the decisions we make and the actions we take as individuals and as a company every day

• Excellence

  - We are committed to being our best. Because creating a better future takes more than good intentions

Inclusion

We are actively creating a workplace where authentic communication, collaboration, and inclusion enable people to become their best selves both personally and professionally while having a career with purpose and impact.