Strategy and Business Development Manager

The role

You will shape growth strategy by identifying and executing organic and inorganic business opportunities. This includes building market reports, writing investment memos, and leading project workstreams to support decision-making.

What you will do

• Build market reports, competitive landscapes, and technology assessments
• Write investment memos and business cases for leadership and Board decisions
• Lead expert calls, customer interviews, and data room screening
• Integrate acquisitions and set up joint ventures
• Track that integrations meet the original business case
• Define how the team runs strategic projects and deploy AI tools
• Represent Proxima Fusion at conferences and industry events
• Grow a network and feed new ideas into the pipeline

Required qualifications

• 2-3 years in tier-1 strategy consulting, private equity, venture capital, or a fast-paced startup
• Comfortable working on technical topics
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Exposure to deep tech or energy industries
• STEM degree (engineering, physics or similar)
• German

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). They are developing hardware and infrastructure to deliver a commercial stellarator fusion power plant.