| Non-Executive Director required: Retail Industry specialist |  | | Recruiter name: | First Flight Placements | | Date posted: | 23 December 2008 | | Job reference: | 1.580 | | Location: | Europe | | Position type: | Part Time | | Sector: | Retail | | Salary Description: | Competitive | | Salary Range: | Competitive |
|  | | Job Description | We are seeking a Non-Executive Director to help forge strategic partnerships between an innovative business and major companies in the retailing and e-tailing industry sectors; the individual should have senior contacts in this industry as well as experience at Board level in the sector as CEO, in Finance or Sales/Marketing/Business Development functions.
1. The Business Concept:
Our client drives rapid growth in small innovative firms by connecting them to major strategic partners. It has a stable of high growth, early stage firms.
The company is looking to recruit exceptional Non-Executive Directors to assist in the forging of strategic partnerships within different industry sectors.
Trade investment by the strategic partner in the small innovative firm is envisaged.
2. The Small Innovative Firm:
This Client has patent pending technology which enables software companies to offer their software to customers as a rented service.
The customer does not have to be online to use the software.
The company is launching its service with some of the biggest global software vendors and distributors as well as hardware manufacturers.
3. The Non-Executive Director Required:
In-depth experience of the retailing and e-tailing industry sectors.
The Non-Executive Director and our Client together approach relevant major companies in the industry sector about the possibility of strategic partnership/trade investment with the small innovative firm.
The Non-Executive Director will also be also involved in the face to face negotiations with strategic partners and trade investors.
The role is part time with the amount of time required varying as strategic partnership and trade investment deals progress.
This opportunity will appeal to high calibre individuals who are interested in potentially making a substantial capital gain (£200k to £500k per deal) from trade investment by the strategic partners as opposed to earning fee income.
There is also the opportunity for Non-Executive Director to invest in this rapid growth, innovative company on preferential terms ahead of trade investment.
In order to progress your application, we will require a signed Self-Certification Statement in order to comply with the current Financial Services and Markets Act (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (FSA) legislation plus our Confidentiality/NDA form. If you have not already signed these forms we will email them to you.
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