Principal – Venture & Concept Development
hace 2 días
London
Opportunity to join a well-capitalised, ambitious, early-stage venture studio building new brands across hospitality, food & beverage, and entertainment. What we do is simple in theory and hard in practice: find great IP, turn it into real concepts, launch them, scale what works...then do it again. The Role We’re looking for a Principal – Venture & Concept Development to take real ownership of new concepts, from first idea through validation, launch, and early scale. What You’ll Do • Come up with and shape new hospitality, F&B, and CPG concepts, • Turn creative or talent-led ideas into businesses that actually work, • Test whether a concept makes sense — market, customer, numbers, • Build the financial model and decide what’s worth backing, • Lead product development, including taste and flavour testing where relevant, • Put together the launch plan and take it to market, • Spend time with manufacturers, distributors, and partners, • Negotiate and sign production, distribution, and licensing deals, • Prove the concept, help bring in a team to scale it, then start again Who This Is For • People with strong strategic training who want real ownership, not just analysis, • Comfortable working in messy, early-stage environments, • Commercially sharp, numerate, and happy getting into the detail, • Confident working hands-on with operators, partners, and senior stakeholders, • Genuinely interested in food, hospitality, brands, and consumer experiences Why This Role • You get true zero-to-one ownership, repeatedly, • You’ll work closely with founders, investors, and best-in-class partners, • Small senior team, lots of autonomy, very little bureaucracy, • You’ll build real businesses - not decks Working Model • London-based, hybrid, • Flexible, high-trust way of working