VC Manager @ Dow in Midland, MI

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The Dow Chemical Company Finance organization has an opening for a Venture Capital Manager within the Treasury’s Venture Capital Team, located at the company’s world headquarters in Midland, Michigan
. The purpose of the position is to identify, negotiate, execute, monitor and manage investments within the company’s Venture Capital portfolio. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Venture Capital team reporting to the Sr. Director of Venture Capital. The Venture Capital team is accountable to partner with the businesses and functions to build and manage a portfolio of investments in support of the company’s strategic initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity to apply your finance skills, business acumen and investment understanding to contribute to the success of the company.

In alignment with the vision of the Sr. Director of Venture Capital, systematically build and manage a portfolio of investments in support of the company’s strategic initiatives. For example:

• Partner with the Ventures & Business Development team to build an understanding of the company’s strategic objectives and how they align to the business and functions.
• Partner with businesses and functions to develop a pipeline of investment opportunities aligned with the company’s strategic objectives by building and maintaining external networks in the VC industry and centers of research excellence to access deal flow, collaborating with tech scouts and other internal sources of deal flow and opportunities, and maintaining a database of opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate and discern the appropriateness and value of potential venture capital investments as compared to other models of collaboration.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop the value case and risk assessment for potential investments.
• Evaluate various investment vehicles and deal terms to optimize the value of the opportunity, mitigate risks, and achieve appropriate accounting.
• Evaluate the effects of potential additions to the Venture Capital Portfolio to understand and manage implications on value and cash flows to the company arising from forces such as concentrations, equity and credit markets, and underlying market exposures etc.

Assist the Venture Capital Team in its role to serve as a trusted venture capital investment advisor to the company. For example:

• Advise, educate and present on matters related to the venture capital field and venture capital investments, their various impacts on the company and best practices for effective deal implementation and management.
• Counsel management and provide concise updates as the markets for investment change.

Ensure the efficient and orderly execution, monitoring and management of Venture Capital strategy and objectives in effective collaboration with multiple other Treasury, company and external functions/processes (Businesses, Functions, Strategic Planning, Operations, Compliance, Systems, Credit, Planning, Funding, Legal, Accounting, Tax, Counter parties and others). For example:

• Ensure all activities are performed to negotiate, transact, monitor and manage the investments.
• Ensure all deal events are tracked and understood to ensure the company’s potential participation is optimized.
• Evaluate financial performance of the company’s venture capital investments and ensure deal events and valuations are properly recorded.
• Ensure various reports and analyses are…