Venture Builder - Venture Manager

Venture Manager, Neighbourhood Health Ventures

Location: Remote (UK-based), with occasional travel to UHUK member offices and meetings across the UK

Contract: Full-time

Salary: £45,000–£55,000 depending on experience, plus potential options/equity

Reports to: Venture Builder Board

About the Venture Builder

Neighbourhood Health Ventures (NHV) - www.nhventures.co.uk - is a new venture builder established by UHUK (Urgent Health UK) member organisations – a network of NHS healthcare social enterprises delivering urgent and community health services across the United Kingdom. NHV has been created as a standalone limited company, collectively owned by investing UHUK members, to identify, test and launch innovative ventures that address real-world pain points in urgent, community and neighbourhood healthcare. The venture builder model enables member organisations to pool resources, share risk and retain ownership of the intellectual property and startups created. NHV will draw on the frontline expertise, sector knowledge and operational insight of its member investors. The ambition is to launch circa 5-6 ventures over an initial two-year period, funded by a seed investment from member contributions. The Role

As Venture Manager, you will be the lead operational figure in the venture builder, responsible for driving multiple early-stage health ventures from initial concept through to launch. You will manage the full venture pipeline – sourcing ideas from UHUK members and the wider market, conducting rapid market analysis, overseeing trial and MVP development, and coordinating the legal, financial and operational setup of new companies that launch.

Working closely with UHUK’s senior leadership, the Member Investors and a small team of Venture Associates, you will shape the strategic direction of the venture builder while maintaining the pace and agility of an early-stage startup environment. This is a rare opportunity to build a venture creation engine from scratch as a “founder”, within a purpose-driven healthcare network – combining the analytical rigour of venture capital with the hands-on intensity of founding a company.

Key Responsibilities

Venture Pipeline & Strategy

•        Lead the end-to-end venture pipeline, managing multiple ideas simultaneously through the methodology of: ideation, assessment, trial, launch and early scaling

•        Apply structured frameworks to assess, prioritise and progress ventures based on evidence, market data and strategic fit

•        Work closely with UHUK members/investors to identify and understand pain points within urgent care, primary care and the broader healthcare market

•        Speak to a wide array of market experts across healthcare arena

Execution & Delivery

•        Oversee trial and MVP development – designing experiments, conducting stakeholder interviews, managing data collection and testing assumptions

•        Support business modelling, early-stage financials and budget planning for ventures

•        Coordinate legal incorporation, accounting, HR and governance setup for ventures progressing to launch

•        Project Manage timelines, deliverables, KPIs and stage-gate decision points

Team & Stakeholder Management

•        Line-manage Venture Associates and support their professional development

•        Present findings, recommendations and progress reports to the NHV Board and UHUK member CEOs

•        Build relationships with NHS stakeholders, social enterprise leaders, technical partners and potential future investors

•        Support UHUK’s social enterprise mission, ensuring all ventures are evaluated for community and patient impact alongside commercial viability

About You

Essential

•        3–5+ years’ experience in a strategic, project management or business development role, ideally involving early-stage ventures, innovation, healthcare or consulting

•        Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities

•        Strong strategic thinking and the ability to design structured plans

•        Financial literacy sufficient to build early-stage business models and budgets

•        Comfortable with market research, data analysis and evidence-based decisions

•        Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders

•        Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong bias for action and comfort with uncertainty

Desirable

•        Experience in healthcare, NHS, social enterprise or public sector innovation

•        Background in venture building, startup incubation or early-stage investing

•        Familiarity with lean startup methodologies, MVP development and product-market fit

•        Existing network within the health innovation or social enterprise ecosystem

What We Offer

•        Salary of £45,000–£55,000 depending on experience

•        Equity incentive in the venture builder, with mirrored participation in ventures created

•        The opportunity to shape a venture builder from day one, with significant autonomy and strategic influence across a diverse range of ventures

•        A mission-driven environment where commercial success directly improves patient and community outcomes

•        Genuine career development – as the venture builder grows, so will the opportunities within it -including potential equity / options ownership

How to Apply

If you are curious, analytical and passionate about building new healthcare ventures, please send your CV along with a short cover note about why the role appeals, through Linkedin. Please don’t forget the short cover note with specificity– candidates that remember will stand out! 😊