Head of Coaching Certifications

• Are you torn between the excitement of start-ups and the stability of corporate life?
• Are you curious, and do you want to keep learning whilst getting real business building experience?
• Do you want to play a key role in building out a brand-new Capital Markets Unit to help significantly grow our lending businesses?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

A bit about Blenheim Chalcot and our portfolio:

At Blenheim Chalcot, we use our ideas, infrastructure, and people to create an innovation system that transforms disruptive ideas into innovative businesses. We originate the ideas ourselves, grow them from the ground up and take them through to scaling and ultimately exit.

We typically build enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) products, powered by Generative AI and target industries which are exposed to market, regulatory or technology discontinuities. We have built businesses across the following sectors:

• Financial Services
• Education
• Media and Marketing
• Public Services and Health
• Sports

Our track record has seen us build more than 60 businesses over the last 25+ years. The portfolio has annual revenues of £500m, employs more than 3,000 people, has raised £600m in equity, and secured exits totaling over £1bn.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual to lead a newly developing business within the Royals certifications domain. This role involves guiding an emerging venture focused on creating and distributing world-class sports-related courses, with the goal of evolving it into a leading global platform.

The role will include working with key stakeholders across the business and externally in developing content, designing and launching the program.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop a certifications platform focusing on sports-related content.
• Scale the business, with an aim to achieve a 10k learner base and $500K ARR by Oct 2025.
• Accountable for developing content creation & design with agencies, subject matter experts, building marketing campaigns, working on product building, and issue resolution.
• Build a high-skilled community by establishing a structured pathway of courses including foundation to specialized modules.
• Activate new channels of revenue via like-minded partners, sporting bodies, etc.
• Explore different ways of business expansion and launch programs in different geographies.
• Manage key stakeholders for the business, including Subject Matter Experts, design agencies, faculties, etc.

You’re a great fit for us if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Sport Management or a related field.
• Proven experience (7+ years) in the ed-tech industry.
• Preferred but not essential if you built your own ed-tech venture in the past.
• Ability to drive business results by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to develop and lead cross-functional projects.
• Affinity towards start-up work environment and hunger to learn.
• Cricket enthusiast and understand the dynamics of the sport.

What you’ll get:

• An entrepreneurial environment where you have a chance to build a million-dollar business from the ground up.
• Opportunity to make a huge impact in revolutionizing cricket coaching.
• Chance to work at the intersection of our biggest passion - sports and edtech.
• Interaction with eminent personalities from the sports industry.

Our culture:

Our culture across the portfolio is inclusive, modern, friendly, smart and innovative – we seek to employ bright, positive-thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do – if that sounds like you, you’ll fit right in!

The Process:

We have a rigorous recruitment process which we use for all our roles to ensure we attract the very best and diverse talent. This will involve an initial telephone conversation, followed by a panel interview and a case study where you will meet with that business's management team and the Chief Operating team over 2 stages. We aspire for every person invited into an interview to find the process as interesting and engaging as we no doubt will.

Individuals seeking employment at Blenheim Chalcot must note we see diversity as a really positive thing that creates a better workplace and delivers better outcomes, so we are keen to maximize the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.