Value proposition

Our culture & values :

We understand that in order to make a significant impact in the world, we need to develop the skills that make our team as effective as possible. We therefore commit to growing and challenging our team through mentorship and coaching so as to help them realise their potential. If they succeed, we succeed. At Edge Growth we ensure that making a difference doesn’t come at the expense of our team’s career development’ Jason Goldberg, Director

 Edge Growth believes in benevolence but without compromising excellence, it is a company which…

• is run in order to make a difference, by people who want to make a difference.
• tackles South Africa’s greatest obstacles to social justice – skills, education, and jobs.
• excels; is professional, passionate, innovative and fun. It is a company which values families; and which never forgets the poor and weak.
• holds itself accountable to delivering superior impact.
• creates personal wealth for staff and shareholders, to fund their own meaningful life projects.
• hires world class people with their hearts in the right place. People who thrive on challenges and stretch their abilities to achieve their aspirations.
• succeeds by working as partners with our clients and each other to share our knowledge, insights, and experience.

Edge Growth provides a challenging and rewarding work environment. We succeed by extending ourselves to rapidly master new skills and support our clients to deliver explosive results, within a team of exceptional, high-energy people. Our values underlie our promise to deliver results, not just theories to our clients.

Edge Growth is a vibrant and fun place to work. The scope of our projects provide exposure to exceptional people and challenging issues. You will be given the opportunity to extend your experience through leading and coaching teams in a variety of industries. We aspire to challenge, extend, support and grow our people.

What’s in it for you?

Edge Growth offers you the opportunity to pursue a career at the nexus of your passion, talent and this unique South African opportunity (brought about by B-BBEE legislation). It gives you the chance to make a real contribution to the future of this awesome country. Not only does Edge Growth offer a career with meaning but the work is stimulating and varied. From day 1, you will continually learn, innovate, build and develop your professional and interpersonal skills.

In 2 years at Edge, you will

• Learn powerful techniques to identify, prove, demonstrate and create future value in early stage business ventures with high potential, that most financiers wouldn’t spend 10 minutes on
• Learn the “logic” of smart venture investing
• Be exposed to and analyse hundreds of business plans
• Investigate the merits of 20+ businesses
• Gain an in depth knowledge of 10+ different industries
• Be involved in structuring and negotiating several equity investments in high growth businesses
• Work with a diversity of highly talented entrepreneurs
• Debate investment proposals with some of the country’s leading venture capitalists and private equity practitioners, on our Investment Committee
• Be intimately involved in growing 3-5 businesses
• Systematically build a holistic toolkit for successful venture capital investing
• Be exposed to some of the significant public forums Edge has the privilege of influencing by sharing their leading Edge Growth thinking and experience

 Edge Growth will provide you with:

• High level of job satisfaction – see the impact of your actions    
  • Know that delivering results means creating sustainable livelihoods
  • Influence the destiny of the country you call home
  • Be part of helping solve a global challenge
  • ‘Re-wire’ an SME to beat the growth hurdle and reach its potential
  • Grow and change with an organisation from start to finish
• Unparalleled opportunities for professional & personal development
  • At Edge Growth we help you will build a powerful consulting, management and leadership competence. We entrench best practice skills through mentoring, on-the-job application and coaching. You’ll be given hands-on training on our leading-edge approaches and methodology which primarily covers ‘how to grow, manage & optimise’ an SME.
  • At Edge Growth we assist you in the development of execution and leadership skills. You will learn how to inspire and manage people to deliver real, sustainable results in one of the most complex context; the SME growth phase.
• Strong relationships and teamwork
  • Work with exceptional people as part of high performing teams.
  • Build deep relationships with your team and across all levels of an organisation.
  • Coach clients how to deliver and measure ‘balanced success’.
• Competitive remuneration and other benefits
  • We do not expect to attract the best people based on the ‘meaning’ of this business alone. We pay highly competitive packages with an opportunity to share in project profits both in the short term and as an annuity income stream based on performance & tenure.
  • We believe in a work-life balance. We are flexible in terms of leave and believe in it is about what you get done not about how many hours you work.
  • Be part of a rapidly-growing and evolving, entrepreneurial company.
  • Our people’s time is Edge Growth's most precious business commodity. For this reason we employ technology to assist our team in being as efficient and effective as possible.
  • Opportunity to travel and experience different cultures and work environments .