The Investments and Profit Growth unit drives value creation across EIT Health’s earlystage investments and commercial activities, ensuring assets and ventures are structured for scalable success. It manages the full investment lifecycle, from evaluating opportunities and executing transactions to supporting portfolio development and strategic outcomes. Within this context, the EIT cross-KIC
Regional Innovation Booster (RIB) activities serve as a sourcing platform into the KICs’ business creation and investment pipelines.
The RIB Investment Manager supports this mission by operationalising the EIT RIB Mechanism and its pilot editions in selected countries, ensuring that promising ventures identified at cross-KIC level can transition smoothly into EIT Health’s investment processes. You will coordinate the RIB Committee, monitor venture and pilot progress and help plug RIB sourced ventures into EIT Health’s business creation and investment activities.
Working closely with the cross-KIC Regional Innovation & Internationalisation Senior Director, the Head of Investments and Profit Growth, the Senior Investment Manager, Finance, Programme Delivery and local partners, you will track performance, risks and mitigation measures, maintain RIB specific tools (e.g. CRM, tracking files) and contribute to portfolio and management reporting.
This role is ideal for someone early in their investment career who enjoys combining coordination, analysis and stakeholder management in a European innovation context.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support oversight of RIB editions in pilot countries by monitoring progress, timelines, risks and mitigation measures, and by ensuring agreed processes are followed.
- Prepare concise bi-weekly updates to the Cluster and EIT on developments related to EIT RIB, highlighting key decisions, risks and next steps.
- Coordinate the work of the RIB Committee (agenda setting, materials, minutes, follow-up), ensuring effective implementation of the RIB Mechanism and the design of the RIB Lite Mechanism.
- Help establish and maintain processes and tools for tracking the growth of RIB ventures, including a dedicated RIB CRM and related dashboards.
- Assist in coordinating the 3-stage approach of the RIB Mechanism and in harmonising delivery standards across locations.
- Contribute to internal processes that support sourcing of companies through RIB mechanism into EIT Health’s Business Creation portfolios and investment activities.
- Assist in collecting and structuring data for basic financial and traction analyses of RIB Health ventures (e.g. revenues, runway, funding history, KPIs) to inform investment recommendations.
- Support portfolio monitoring of RIB ventures by updating performance dashboards, capturing key milestones, and flagging material risks or opportunities to EIT Health’s investment team.
- Monitor the progress of RIB ventures and help establish feedback loops, including pathways for ventures to reapply in future RIB calls.
- Provide structured inputs and data for interim reports and other business cycle reporting related to RIB and investment activities.
- Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Biology, Engineering or a related field in healthcare; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
- 2–5+ years of experience in venture capital, growth equity, investment banking, strategy consulting, or a comparable analytical investment role.
- Demonstrated track record of sourcing, evaluating, and executing investment transactions.
- Strong project management skills, including planning, coordinating multi country work streams, and driving timelines and follow ups with diverse stakeholders.
- Strong financial modelling, valuation, and due‑diligence capabilities.
- Excellent strategic thinking and ability to assess complex business models.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to prepare high‑quality investment memos and investment committee materials.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive processes independently.
- Fluent English language skills.
- Experience working with early‑stage or growth‑stage technology, life sciences, or healthcare companies is an advantage.
- We are a 100% “Remote First” company, hiring in Germany, Spain & France
- The possibility to join offices in various locations around Europe during business travel.
- Flexible working hours
- Straight forward internal communication, non-hierarchical structure, and freedom to operate with autonomy.
- A large and vibrant network in the healthcare sector, with exposure to high-level and senior representatives from key players and influencers.
- The opportunity to work on critical projects of European interest, contributing to improving the lives of citizens and patients.
EIT Health is one of Europe’s largest and most dynamic health innovation communities, dedicated to improving the lives of citizens and patients and strengthening healthcare systems across the continent.
Our mission is simple: to drive healthcare innovation and create positive societal impact across Europe. In a landscape marked by an ageing population, rising chronic disease, workforce shortages, and increasing pressure on healthcare budgets, our community serves as a catalyst, enabling creative thinking, cross-border collaboration, and evidence-based solutions that deliver real-world impact.
As a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), our pan-European network brings together over 80 members, exceptional in the worlds of business, education, research and health service delivery, alongside thousands of start-ups, entrepreneurs and healthcare professionals. By combining their collective expertise we help new solutions reach the people and services that need them most.